
2025 · Abstract Strategy
Tanbo
Cultivate rice paddies in Niigata, Japan, where sacred snakes help the rice grow. Activate effects, move and control the snakes, and harvest rice from the paddies. This two-player abstract game uses a Mancala-inspired system with elements of worker placement, area majority, and set collection.
- Players
- 2
- Playing time
- 5–20 min
- Age
- 8+
- Complexity
- 2 / 5
FarmingEnvironmentalWorker PlacementMancalaAction / Event
About the game
- Design
- Art
- Publisher
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Full stats in Ludoya- 3
- Plays logged
- 4
- Players
- 5m 55s
- Average play
- 1
- In collections
- 1
- On wishlists
Free, on web, Android and iOS
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