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Takenoko


45m - 45m

2 - 4 Players

Ages 8+
In Action Point (AP) Allowance System games, each player is allotted a certain amount of points per round. These points can be spent on available actions, until the player does not have enough remaining to "purchase" any more actions.
Action Point Allowance System
Dice rolling in a game can be used for many things, randomness being the most obvious. Dice can also be used as counters. The dice themselves can be unique and different sizes, shapes and colors to represent different things.
Dice Rolling
Play occurs upon a modular board that is composed of multiple pieces, often tiles or cards. In many games, board placement is randomized, leading to different possibilities for strategy and exploration.Some games in this category have multiple boards which are not used simultaneously, preserving table space. Unused boards remain out of play until they are required.
Modular Board
Pattern Building is a system where players place game components in specific patterns in order to gain specific or variable game results. For example: placing chips on 2, 4, 6, 8 on a board gets the player an action card they can use later in the game.
Pattern Building
The primary goal of a set collection mechanic is to encourage a player to collect a set of items.
Set Collection
Tile Placement games feature placing a piece to score VPs, with the amount often based on adjacent pieces or pieces in the same group/cluster, and keying off non-spatial properties like color, "feature completion", cluster size etc.
Tile Placement

Animals

Farming

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  1. 7 out of 10

    Probably the cutest styled game that I own, but there is some real strategic depth beyond those pastel colors.

  2. 6 out of 10

    Obviously this has a good theme - they ought to sell it at Edinburgh zoo now that they have the pandas as it may sell by the bucketload. It's visually very interesting. Some of the play is a wee bit reminiscent of a stripped down Santiago. It's not as clean and deep as that one by a long chalk, but it is a decent game. The cards and tiles offer lots of luck.- you can draw pink bamboo on cards bu not on tiles for instance, which hampers you massively, but then I'm not one of those measly party-popping gamers who insists that every game needs to have minimum luck. It's nice to have a bit of variety. The more advanced rules would be beyond a lot of kids under ten on the first play as the game is a lot meatier than it's theme suggests or than you would expect in a "kids' game." I think it's more of a family game really. As a game I'd give it a 5, but since it's got a great theme is good, light fun and has wonderful bits I think a 6 is more reasonable.

  3. 6 out of 10

    Adorable game & there's a lot to love, but just too light for me. I also felt the panda cards were too strong for their point value, making us reluctant to do anything but panda objectives.

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A long time ago at the Japanese Imperial court, the Chinese Emperor offered a giant panda bear as a symbol of peace to the Japanese Emperor. Since then, the Japanese Emperor has entrusted his court members (the players) with the difficult task of caring for the animal by tending to his bamboo garden.

In Takenoko, the players will cultivate land plots, irrigate them, and grow one of the three species of bamboo (Green, Yellow, and Pink) with the help of the Imperial gardener to maintain this bamboo garden. They will have to bear with the immoderate hunger of this sacred animal for the juicy and tender bamboo. The player who manages his land plots best, growing the most bamboo while feeding the delicate appetite of the panda, will win the game.

Ages

8+
Players

2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players
Play Time

45m – 45m
Designer

Antoine Bauza
Mechanics

Route/Network Building, Action Point Allowance System, Dice Rolling, Grid Movement, Modular Board, Pattern Building, Set Collection, Tile Placement
Theme

Animals, Environmental, Farming, Territory Building
Publisher

Bergsala Enigma, Filosofia Éditions, FoxMind Israel, Gém Klub Kft., Hobby Japan, Kaissa Chess & Games, REXhry, Surfin' Meeple China, Asmodee, Asterion Press, Bombyx, Galápagos Jogos, Hobby World, Lex Games, Matagot, Pegasus Spiele, Rebel
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