Agricola is a Euro style worker placement board game created by designer Uwe Rosenberg, first published in 2007 by Lookout Games in Germany and Z Man Games in the United States, with a revised edition following in 2016 from Mayfair Games. One to five players, reduced to one to four in the revised edition, each take the role of a farmer building up a homestead over fourteen rounds by placing workers to gather resources, grow crops, raise livestock and expand their house and family, earning victory points for a balanced and prosperous farm at the game's end. Agricola won the Deutscher Spiele Preis in 2008 and held the top overall ranking on the hobby database BoardGameGeek from September 2008 to March 2010, cementing its reputation as one of the defining worker placement games of the modern hobby board game era.
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1. Agricola (board game) (Wikipedia)
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Agricola is a Euro-style board game created by Uwe Rosenberg
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Agricola is a Euro-style board game created by Uwe Rosenberg. It is a worker placement game with a focus on resource management. In Agricola, players are farmers who sow, plow the fields, collect wood, build stables, buy animals, expand their farms and feed their families. After 14 rounds, players calculate their score based on the size and prosperity of the household. The game was published by Lookout Games and released at Spiel 2007, where it was voted second-best game shown at the convention, according to the Fairplay in-show voting. The game was released in English by Z-Man Games in July 2008. Playdek released an iOS conversion of the game in June 2013. A second edition of Agricola was published by Mayfair Games in May 2016. Agricola won the Spiel des Jahres special award for "Best Complex Game 2008" and the 2008 Deutscher Spiele Preis. It was also the game that ended Puerto Rico's run of more than five years as the highest-rated game on the board game website BoardGameGeek, staying at the top of the rankings between September 2008 and March 2010. As of November 2025, Agricola is ranked 61st among all board games on BoardGameGeek, with the revised edition being ranked 84th. A two-player version called Agricola: All Creatures Big & Small was released in 2012. There is also a corresponding iOS app.
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