Takenoko

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• Setup
  • • Place the starting pond tile on the table.
    • Place the gardener and panda figures on the starting pond.
    • Shuffle the Land Plot tiles face down to form a stack.
    • Separate the cards by the type and shuffle each deck.
    • Each player gets a player board, 2 markers, and 1 card of each type which are kept hidden.
    • Choose a starting player.
• Gameplay
  • • Performed in player order until the end of the game.
    • No bamboo chute may be more than 4 sections tall.
    • Plots adjacent to the starting pond tile are automatically irrigated.
    • Items in your reserve can be played at any time during your turn.
  • Determine Weather Conditions
    • • Roll the Weather Die and apply its effects.
    • Sun
      • • Gain 1 additional action for this turn.
    • Rain
      • • Place 1 section of bamboo on an irrigated plot of your choice.
    • Wind
      • • May take the same action twice this turn.
    • Storm
      • • Move the Panda to any plot and eat 1 piece of bamboo from this plot.
    • Clouds
      • • Take an Improvement tile of your choice from the supply. You may immediately place it or add it to your reserve.
        • If no Improvement tiles are left in the supply, you may choose another die face and apply its result.
    • Question Mark
      • • The player may choose any other die face and apply its result.
  • Perform Actions and Meet Objectives.
    • • You may perform up to 2 actions on your turn.
      • The actions must be different from each other unless you have rolled Wind.
    • Draw Plots
      • • Draw 3 plot tiles.
        • Choose 1 of the tiles that you will put into play and return the other 2 to the bottom of the stack in any order.
        • Put the plot into play. The plot must be adjacent to the special pond tile or adjacent to 2 other plots in play.
        • If the plot is irrigated, immediately add a section of bamboo to it.
    • Take an Irrigation Channel
      • • Take an irrigation channel from the reserve and either put it into play or add it to your personal supply.
        • Irrigation channels are placed on the edges between 2 tiles.
        • The special pond tile cannot have any irrigation channels on its sides.
        • A plot is irrigated if at least 1 of its edges has an irrigation channel.
        • A tile that is irrigated for the first time immediately grows 1 piece of bamboo.
    • Move the Gardener
      • • Move the gardener any number of spaces in a straight line.
        • Cannot move over empty spaces.
        • Immediately grow a section of bamboo in the tile he finishes his movement in, plus all adjacent plots of the same colour.
          • Plots must be irrigated in order to grow bamboo.
    • Move the Panda
      • • Move the panda any number of spaces in a straight line.
        • Cannot move over empty spaces.
        • Eat 1 piece of bamboo from the plot where he finishes his movement and add it to your supply.
    • Draw an Objective
      • • Draw 1 objective card from the deck of your choice.
        • If the conditions of the drawn plot or gardener objective (not panda) are already met, discard this card and redraw.
        • You may only hold up to 5 objective cards. You cannot take this action if you are at your maximum.
    • Complete Objectives
      • • Free action that can be performed any number of times during your turn.
        • Play completed objectives in front of you.
• Tile Improvements
  • Enclosure
    • • Prevents the panda from eating bamboo in this plot.
      • Does not prevent the panda from moving through or ending movement on this plot.
  • Fertilizer
    • • Each time bamboo grows on this plot, 2 sections are added instead of 1.
  • Watershed
    • • This improvement immediately irrigates the tile.
      • Grow a piece of bamboo if this is the first time the tile is irrigated.
• End of the Game
  • • When a player has 9 objective cards in front of them, the last round is triggered. (3P: 8 cards, 4P: 7 cards).
    • The player who triggered the end takes the Emperor card and finishes their turn as normal.
    • Each other player has 1 final turn to complete as many objectives as possible.
    • Each player totals up the points from their objective and Emperor cards.
    • Break ties with most points from a Panda objective card.
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