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A board game by renowned designer Antoine Bauza. Players care for the Nippon Emperor’s giant panda by keeping up with his bamboo plantation. |
Your mission: to farm and irrigate parcels of land growing bamboo. |
Players cultivate land plots, irrigate them, and grow one of the three species of bamboo (Green, Yellow and Pink). |
Can you grow bamboo across your plantation as a mischievous panda eats wherever he can? |
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Each turn, you’ll see what the weather brings your way! Perform actions like getting a new plot of land, digging irrigation channels, growing bamboo, feeding the panda, or drawing an objective card. |
Colorful miniatures for the giant panda and the Emperor’s gardener suit the game's light-spirited tone, and these figures will be critical to your designs to grow the most beautiful bamboo stands. |
Takenoko includes plastic bamboo sections and twenty-eight beautifully illustrated garden plots, which combine to create a unique playing experience. |
At the end of the game, whichever player has earned the most points from his objectives wins! |
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| Takenoko | Takenoko: Chibis Expansion | Micropolis | Rapa Nui | Treasure Island | Princess Jing | |
| Type of Game | Board Game | Board Game | Board Game | Board Game | Board Game | Board Game |
| Number of Players | 2 to 4 Players | 2 to 4 Players | 2 to 6 Players | 2 to 4 Players | 2 to 5 Players | 2 Players |
| Average Playtime | 45 Minutes | 45 Minutes | 30 Minutes | 45 Minutes | 45 Minutes | 30 Minutes |
| Recommended Player Age | 8+ | 8+ | 8+ | 10+ | 10+ | 8+ |
| Game Objectives | You must cultivate plots of land using irrigation and intelligence so that bamboo, the only food that the Panda will eat, grows in abundance. | Complete your objectives and make sure the pandas are one big, happy family! | Compete against rival ant colonies to see who can raise the biggest army and store the most resources. | Become a powerful tribal chief of Easter Island, and gather tribe members to best serve your village and please the Gods. | One player embodies Long John Silver, trying to mislead the others in their search for his treasure. | Help Princess Jing escape from the forbidden city! |
| Theme | Pandas & Bamboo | Pandas & Bamboo | Ants | Easter Island | Pirates | Princesses and Guards |
| Strategy Game | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Exploration Game | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Family Game | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Expansion(s) Available | ✓ | is an expansion | ✓ |
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Clever and cute game that plays in less than an hour. Oh and....that adorable Panda!
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2020
I absolutely love games that draw me in from the moment I lay eyes on the box, yes I admit it, I'm a sucker for great looking boxes. Better yet is when the same great art and visuals carry through to the game once it's set up on your table. Takenoko continues to deliver that same whimsical, pastel colored are style straight to the table and all the way through to the end.This game is an absolute gem and easily pleases many types of gamers, it also is easy to teach and learn so new players need not be left out of having a great experience with this one. As mentioned before the box will draw the eyes of new gamers in your Group or possibly those who aren't as familiar with board games, and thus Takenoko excels at being a wonderful introductory game for them.There is a great feeling of playing a competitive game with everyone without any of the stress of games with more conflict; everything is very calm and relaxed as players take their actions. Even when someone moves the Panda to eat the bamboo you've been growing for three turns, it's all very fun and forgiving. Who could ever get mad at that hungry little cutey happily munching away at all your hard work? The limited confrontation that is introduced with his mechanic of you choosing to grow bamboo while another player might be choosing to eat bamboo is good friendly fun. Besides, you better believe that afterwards you'll be trying to fulfill your own Panda objective and get them back on your next turn.This game plays very quickly but still delivers a decent amount of planning and tactics that you can experiment with. I find it a very rewarding game with its charm and beauty being forefront among its qualities. The random element of the die roll at the beginning of your turn can add some additional variety and change to each of your turns, but a lot of your game choices will be a bit of give and take with the other players. It's almost cooperative at times in that some of your actions might secretly be benefiting your opponents and vice versa, again coming back to how simple and relaxed game play is.I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this to anyone, this plays wonderfully at 2 players and above and is quite kid friendly. You'll have no trouble teaching this to anyone and be playing full games in less than 10 minutes or so, most players can even pick up and learn the game just by having experienced players go first. Takenoko may be too light of a game for someone looking for advanced strategy and wanting lots of confrontation and optimization. This game will however be perfect for anyone just wanting to play and explore a lovely bamboo garden, find joy in placing stacking those great pieces higher and higher, or anyone who just saw the Panda and knows they can pop it around the board and gobble up points. This is a winner in our home, and a game that we'll come back to for a long time; we hope you enjoy it as well!
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2020
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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 13, 2020
This game is an absolute gem and easily pleases many types of gamers, it also is easy to teach and learn so new players need not be left out of having a great experience with this one. As mentioned before the box will draw the eyes of new gamers in your Group or possibly those who aren't as familiar with board games, and thus Takenoko excels at being a wonderful introductory game for them.
There is a great feeling of playing a competitive game with everyone without any of the stress of games with more conflict; everything is very calm and relaxed as players take their actions. Even when someone moves the Panda to eat the bamboo you've been growing for three turns, it's all very fun and forgiving. Who could ever get mad at that hungry little cutey happily munching away at all your hard work? The limited confrontation that is introduced with his mechanic of you choosing to grow bamboo while another player might be choosing to eat bamboo is good friendly fun. Besides, you better believe that afterwards you'll be trying to fulfill your own Panda objective and get them back on your next turn.
This game plays very quickly but still delivers a decent amount of planning and tactics that you can experiment with. I find it a very rewarding game with its charm and beauty being forefront among its qualities. The random element of the die roll at the beginning of your turn can add some additional variety and change to each of your turns, but a lot of your game choices will be a bit of give and take with the other players. It's almost cooperative at times in that some of your actions might secretly be benefiting your opponents and vice versa, again coming back to how simple and relaxed game play is.
I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this to anyone, this plays wonderfully at 2 players and above and is quite kid friendly. You'll have no trouble teaching this to anyone and be playing full games in less than 10 minutes or so, most players can even pick up and learn the game just by having experienced players go first. Takenoko may be too light of a game for someone looking for advanced strategy and wanting lots of confrontation and optimization. This game will however be perfect for anyone just wanting to play and explore a lovely bamboo garden, find joy in placing stacking those great pieces higher and higher, or anyone who just saw the Panda and knows they can pop it around the board and gobble up points. This is a winner in our home, and a game that we'll come back to for a long time; we hope you enjoy it as well!
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Clever and cute game that plays in less than an hour. Oh and....that adorable Panda!
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 13, 2020
I absolutely love games that draw me in from the moment I lay eyes on the box, yes I admit it, I'm a sucker for great looking boxes. Better yet is when the same great art and visuals carry through to the game once it's set up on your table. Takenoko continues to deliver that same whimsical, pastel colored are style straight to the table and all the way through to the end.Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 13, 2020
This game is an absolute gem and easily pleases many types of gamers, it also is easy to teach and learn so new players need not be left out of having a great experience with this one. As mentioned before the box will draw the eyes of new gamers in your Group or possibly those who aren't as familiar with board games, and thus Takenoko excels at being a wonderful introductory game for them.
There is a great feeling of playing a competitive game with everyone without any of the stress of games with more conflict; everything is very calm and relaxed as players take their actions. Even when someone moves the Panda to eat the bamboo you've been growing for three turns, it's all very fun and forgiving. Who could ever get mad at that hungry little cutey happily munching away at all your hard work? The limited confrontation that is introduced with his mechanic of you choosing to grow bamboo while another player might be choosing to eat bamboo is good friendly fun. Besides, you better believe that afterwards you'll be trying to fulfill your own Panda objective and get them back on your next turn.
This game plays very quickly but still delivers a decent amount of planning and tactics that you can experiment with. I find it a very rewarding game with its charm and beauty being forefront among its qualities. The random element of the die roll at the beginning of your turn can add some additional variety and change to each of your turns, but a lot of your game choices will be a bit of give and take with the other players. It's almost cooperative at times in that some of your actions might secretly be benefiting your opponents and vice versa, again coming back to how simple and relaxed game play is.
I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this to anyone, this plays wonderfully at 2 players and above and is quite kid friendly. You'll have no trouble teaching this to anyone and be playing full games in less than 10 minutes or so, most players can even pick up and learn the game just by having experienced players go first. Takenoko may be too light of a game for someone looking for advanced strategy and wanting lots of confrontation and optimization. This game will however be perfect for anyone just wanting to play and explore a lovely bamboo garden, find joy in placing stacking those great pieces higher and higher, or anyone who just saw the Panda and knows they can pop it around the board and gobble up points. This is a winner in our home, and a game that we'll come back to for a long time; we hope you enjoy it as well!
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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 1, 2022
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Fun but a little sad about the change of pieces
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 1, 2022
I will admit, the aesthetic is what got me interested in the first place. At first I was a little worried I wouldn't be able to figure it out. The instructions are a little difficult to fully understand, but I looked on YouTube for a walkthrough and then started playing and it clicked. I have gotten two people to play the game with and they both caught on super easily and enjoyed it. I would give it 5 stars except one thing that kinda bugged me. There are spots for everything in the game, but it seems like it's for a different version. In all pictures I've seen for this game, the improvement tiles are hexagon shaped and in the box you can even see a small hexagon shaped hole for those cards next to the dice. Instead they are round and the only place I could put them was with the irrigation. Not a huge deal, but it would've been nice. Also the player boards are a little different as there's no storage place for the irrigation or improvements and it looks as though it's cut in half. Again not a huge deal but when you're expecting one thing and get another, it's just kind of a bummer. Still really fun.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 1, 2022
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