Economic · Farming

Cacao

Cacao is a tile-placement game that immerses players in the exotic world of the "fruit of the Gods". As the chief of your tribe, you must lead your people to prosperity through the cultivation and trade of cacao — and to

2–4 players45 minages 8light difficulty

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What is Cacao

In the game, each player has an individual deck of square worker tiles, with the number of workers on each side of the tile varying from tile to tile. The playing area starts with only a couple of jungle tiles in play: a cacao field and a small market; two jungle tiles are laid face up, and the remaining jungle tiles stacked as a draw pile.

On a player's turn, he places one of her worker tiles on the board adjacent to one or more jungle tiles already in play, then (if two worker tiles are next to an empty space) adds one of the jungle tiles to the playing area in this space. Her workers then get busy and deliver the results of their effort: If you placed workers next to a cacao field, you receive one or two cacao markers per worker; if they're next to a market, you can choose to sell one cacao marker per worker at the listed price; if next to a well, you receive water; if next to a temple, they stand and look good until the end of the game; and so on. He then refills her hand from her personal deck to three worker tiles.

Once all players have used all of their worker tiles, the game ends. Players score (or lose) points based on their water supply, and each temple rewards whichever players sent the most workers to it. In the end, whoever has collected the most gold wins.

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Game details

Players: 2–4
Age: +8
Duration: 45 min
Difficulty: Light
Type: Board game
Year: 2015
Mechanics: Area Majority / Influence · Hand Management · Map Addition
Categories: Economic · Farming · Territory Building
Designer: Phil Walker-Harding
Publisher: Devir

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jbedri0/10

Best Game is with 3 players Game Duration: 45 minutes Age: +8 years Difficulty: 1.81

eugeniosarcino8/10

Esp) Cacao es un buen juego de colocación de losetas y temática precolombina en dónde debemos cosechar y vender cacao de la manera más eficiente posible, con el objetivo de ser, al final de la partida, la aldea con mayor cantidad de monedas de oro en su haber. Con muy pocos componentes de juego y acotadas reglas, logra una profundidad muy interesante que escala perfecto de 2 a 4 jugadores. Es un juego ideal para aquellos que, habiendo probado Carcassonne y Catán, buscan indagar en nuevas experiencias lúdicas.

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