Asmodee | Takenoko | Board Game | Ages 8+ | 2-4 Players | 45 Minute Playing Time

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Takenoko falls on the lighter side of euro games. The game plays in about 45 minutes and the strategy isn’t incredibly deep. It should be fairly obvious what needs to be done on your turn. Some of the heavier euro games have you thinking multiple turns in advance as you build up your empire/city/farm/etc. In Takenoko, it will probably only take you a few turns of score an objective card. And because the bamboo garden is communal, sometimes it will take less then that if a player inadvertently helps you out. to validate gardener objectives, the gardener must be located on one of the tiles corresponding to the objective. To fulfill this objective, the configuration shown on the card must be reflected in the bamboo garden.

On your turn you roll the weather die and then apply that weather condition’s effect. So, if you roll sun then you would gain an additional action (this must be a different action to the other two actions you perform in this turn). If you roll rain then you may place a piece of bamboo on an irrigated tile of your choice (up to the limit of four bamboo sections per tile). If you roll wind then you can (but you don’t have to) take two identical actions this round. A long, long time ago relations between Japan and China were very strained. After a series of long disputes, things between the two countries were finally on the mend. As a way to celebrate this new era of co-operation between the two countries, the Chinese Emperor sent a gift of peace to the Japanese Emperor - a giant panda bear. The improvements can be built into a plot (in which case they are printed on the plot) or can be added if a player has acquired an improvement chip thanks to the "Clouds" weather condition. If a player has an improvement in his reserve, it can be used at any time during his turn; this does not count as an action. Completed objectives are played in front of the players on their turn. Once the required number are played, the game ends. The player with the most victory points in the winner. In Takenoko, players must manage 3 different types of bamboo, the gardener and the hungry panda. The garden is communal, so one players actions will affect another. Game Experience: The first player to reach a certain number of completed objectives (9 in a two-player game, 8 in a three-player game, 7 in a four-player game) receives a bonus Emperor card worth 2 points, and triggers the last round of the game.

I. Determine Weather Conditions

When a plot is irrigated for the first time, a section of bamboo of its color is added. A plot is eligible for this first shoot only once. If an irrigation channel irrigates two plots simultaneously, a section of bamboo is added to each. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.

You can move the gardener in a straight line, any number of plots in any direction. The gardener can only move over plots – not empty spaces, so bare this in mind before you take your move. The gardener grows a piece of bamboo on the plot he ends up on as well as on all directly adjacent plots of the same colour. Plots can only grow bamboo to a maximum height of four, so if a plot has the maximum amount of bamboo, you cannot add any further sections. It is also worth remembering that plots cannot grow bamboo if they are not irrigated, even if the gardener finishes on the plot or the adjacent tile.

The player may, but is not required to, take two identical actions in this round (instead of two different actions). Storm If you are a gamer that loves beautiful looking components, then you will fall in love with Takenoko. Asmodee did a top notch job in putting the game together. The pieces range from cute to beautiful to fun. There is not much more you could ask for from a game’s components. How to Play: Takenoko has 3 different types of objective cards (Gardener shown here), and a play mat for each player. The key to Takenoko is completing those Objectives. They range from feeding certain types or quantities of bamboo to the panda (there are common green tiles that grow green bamboo, less-common yellow, and rarer-still pink), to having certain alignments of garden terrain (such as a row of 3x yellows, for example), to having a certain amount of bamboo grown in a certain tile. Rather deliciously, these objectives clash somewhat; while Player A is trying to grow bamboo using the gardener, Player B might be more interested in feeding it to the panda! Plot objectives are completed when the garden configuration shown on the card is reflected in the garden with all the component plots irrigated. Gardener objectives are completed when a matching bamboo towers of the matching colour and base is reflected in the garden. Panda objectives are completed by returning the matching amount of bamboo from your reserve to the supply.