Whether you’re a real farmer or an urban dweller, you’ll find The Farming Game is an accurate description of the business risks and gambles of farming. Players begin the game with 5,000 money in debt with 20 acres of inherited farmland. As players plant crops and sell livestock, they slowly work their way to success…that
Whether you’re a real farmer or an urban dweller, you’ll find The Farming Game is an accurate description of the business risks and gambles of farming. Players begin the game with 5,000 money in debt with 20 acres of inherited farmland. As players plant crops and sell livestock, they slowly work their way to success…that is if the elements cooperate. Farming has never been this much fun. For 2 to 6 players ages 10 and up.More than 350,000 copies of The Farming Game (“The Game Invented on the Seat of a Tractor”) have been sold, and this 20th-anniversary edition introduces a new generation to the joys of muck and milking. Every player starts the game with 20 inherited acres and moves through the months (i.e., around the board) trying to build the farm into an independent, successful concern that will feed the whole family. A fun game, it also has a serious, educational side–having been invented by George Rohrbacher, a farmer in Washington State’s Yakima Valley, who thought it up while trying to figure out how to make enough cash to hang on to his family farm. Up to six players, ages 10 to adult. –Richard Farr
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“…some 10 fold, some 30 fold and some 100 fold.” I understand that scriptural phrase now. I spend thousands on my fruit trees, you spend the same thousands on yours and when it comes to harvest, you do significantly better than me, or maybe you miss and get nothing at all. Better luck next year. But let not your heart be troubled, next year starts right away!.
A smart and highly-inventive game … We bought a ton of board games this Christmas because my 14-year-old nephew was in a cast and needed to be on the calmer side during his visit. My husband had grown up with this game and suggested we give it a try. The game is highly inventive and I found it to be a little difficult to grasp at the beginning, but you just have to keep plugging and it will begin to make sense to non-farming people. The game gets really fun once the players have begun to build some cash reserves–but this takes a…
Not what I was expecting I’ve grown up playing the Farming Game and absolutely LOVE the game. However in this newer version they’ve changed some of the game pieces. I will say the cards are an improvement and seem to be more durable; the older ones had a construction paper feel to it. Also the board folds into an easier to store square shape rather than a long rectangle. My disappointment comes mostly from the “acre” pieces. In the older version they were a reusable static sticker that could be placed on the board an…