Takenoko

8+ years | 2-4 players | 45 mins.

At the Japanese imperial court, a long time ago...

After long quarrels, relations between China and Japan are finally in good shape. To celebrate this agreement, the Chinese emperor offered his Japanese counterpart a sacred animal, a large Chinese panda, a symbol of peace.

The Emperor of Japan entrusts the players, his courtiers, with the delicate mission of taking care of the animal by creating a bamboo grove for it.

Players will cultivate plots of land, irrigate them and grow one of three varieties of bamboo (green, yellow and pink) through the gardener.

They will have to deal with the sacred animal and its immoderate taste for crunchy stems and tender leaves...

The player who grows the most bamboo by managing his plots as well as possible and satisfying the panda's delicate appetite will win the game.