Takenoko

As a collector of cute boardgames, my husband bought us "Takenoko" which has the perfect and cutest components. It's a game where players are given three goals (score cards) to complete - 1. make the gardener plant bamboo trees on the land tiles 2. make the panda eat the bamboo trees 3. place the land tiles with the same color and order as your score card. When the player completes the goal written on the card, you are given points and the player with the most points wins the game.

The game starts from rolling the dice to find out the weather and then are given two actions you have to choose from 1. move the gardener 2. move the panda 3. pick one land tile 4. pick one score card 5. take one water tile to make a river.

The artwork is fantastic and I thought the rules are quite easy to understand even with beginners.



I also liked how you stack the bamboo trees to make them longer. But as usually, Kotetsu kept on knocking them off the tiles.