2011 · Animals
Takenoko
Manage a royal bamboo garden by placing and irrigating terrain tiles, growing three colors of bamboo, and moving a gardener to nurture shoots. Players also move a panda to eat bamboo, scoring by completing objective cards that require specific plot layouts, bamboo heights, or eaten bamboo combinations. Turns combine tile placement, action selection, and resource tracking as players balance cultivation and feeding to fulfill goals.
- Players
- 2–4 best 3
- Playing time
- 45 min
- Age
- 8+
- Complexity
- 2 / 5
About the game
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- Plays logged
- 966
- Players
- 39m 16s
- Average play
- 298
- In collections
- 34
- On wishlists
- 1
- Pre-ordered
7.0/10
from 145 Ludoya reviews
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Jan Solo8.0 Super juego de iniciación. Éxito asegurado (o casi). Bonito, estrategia (hasta cierto punto) y satisfactorio. Todos los Catan deberían ser sustituidos por este juego, al menos para iniciar a no jugones.
Un très beau jeu familial que j'ai toujours trouvé un peu...lent ? ou trop zen peut être ? Ceci dit ça donne matière à réfléchir sur un thème bien agréable et reposant !
Rules questions
Answered from the rulebook by Ludoya's rules assistant.
Can I take the same action twice on my turn?
Normally your two actions must be different, but if you roll WIND you may take two identical actions this round; SUN gives an extra action but that extra action must be different from your two regular actions (page 4).
If I place an irrigation channel, does bamboo grow immediately?
When a plot is irrigated for the first time a bamboo section is immediately added; plots adjacent to the pond and plots with the watershed improvement are automatically irrigated and receive that first growth as well (page 5).
Can the gardener or panda move across empty spaces or must they move at least one plot?
Both the gardener and the panda must move over plots only (they cannot cross empty spaces) and must move at least one plot to benefit from the action; they may cross or end on the pond tile (pages 5–6).
When can I complete objective cards, and do they stay scored if the board changes later?
You may complete objectives at any time during your turn (completing objectives does not count as an action) and a completed objective is kept permanently even if the board later changes — only the conditions at the time of completion matter (page 6).
Can the panda eat bamboo on a plot that has an enclosure improvement?
No — an enclosure protects the bamboo: the panda can move across or stop on that plot but cannot eat any bamboo there (page 7).
When and where can I place an Improvement chip I get (for example from CLOUDS)?
A picked-up improvement can be placed immediately or stored on your player board and placing an improvement from your reserve does not count as an action, but improvements can only be added to plots where bamboo has not yet grown (newly placed plots, non‑irrigated plots, or plots the panda just emptied); each plot can have only one improvement (pages 4, 7).
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