How to Play

Finca

2-5 players 45-45 min 7.1 Board Game Geek Rating

Players harvest Mediterranean fruits on Mallorca by rotating workers around a windmill mechanism. Each windmill movement allows collection of specific crops like oranges, lemons, and almonds. Victory comes from efficiently delivering these fruits to markets across the island faster than opponents, becoming the wealthiest farmer through strategic timing and resource management.

Published 2009

Finca

Get Ready

Setup the game with these step-by-step instructions before diving into your turn.

1
Place the game board
Put the game board on the table in the center of play
2
Shuffle windmill blades
Shuffle the 12 windmill blades face-down and randomly place them face-up on the spaces of the windmill
3
Prepare request tiles
Shuffle the 42 request tiles face-down, then separate them into 10 stacks of 4 each
4
Place finca tiles
Randomly place 1 finca tile on the estate illustration in each of the 10 regions
5
Set up finca tokens
Place wooden finca tokens next to the game board based on player count
6
Prepare food supply
Sort the 108 food tokens by type and place them as a general supply next to the game board
7
Adjust food for player count
Remove food tokens from the game for smaller player counts
8
Set up donkey cart cards
Place donkey cart cards in a stack near the windmill based on player count
9
Distribute farmer tokens
Each player chooses a color and takes farmers based on player count
10
Complete The First Harvest
The youngest player starts by placing one farmer on any windmill blade and taking exactly one matching food token

On Your Turn

What you can do during your turn.

1
Choose one action
On your turn, you must take ONE of the following actions: Move a Farmer OR Make a Delivery
2
Select a farmer to move
Choose any one of your farmers on the windmill
3
Determine movement distance
Count the total number of farmers on the blade you are moving from (including your own)
4
Collect food tokens
After moving, take 1 food token matching the blade's illustration for every farmer now on that blade (including yours)
5
Collect donkey cart cards
When your farmer moves past an arrow with a donkey icon, take one donkey cart card from the stack
6
Handle empty food supply
If you need more food tokens than available, all players return all tokens of that type to the supply
7
Handle empty donkey cart stack
If no donkey carts remain when you need one, all players return their donkey cart cards to the stack
8
Return a donkey cart
Return one of your donkey cart cards to the stack near the windmill
9
Observe delivery limit
You may deliver a maximum of 6 food tokens in a single turn across one or more communities
10
Place requested foods
Put the exact number and types of resources shown on a community's face-up request tile onto that tile
11
Complete multiple deliveries
If delivering to multiple communities, place all requested foods during the same step
12
Return tokens and collect tiles
After placing all foods, return them to the supply and take the satisfied request tile(s) to your play area
13
Calculate points earned
The number printed at the top of each request tile equals the victory points earned
14
Reveal new requests
Turn over the top-most tile on each stack you just collected from to reveal new requests
15
Trigger finca award
When the last request tile is taken from a community, immediately award that community's finca
16
Determine winner
The player who has delivered the most of the resource(s) shown on the finca tile wins it
17
Place finca token
The winner takes the finca tile and places a wooden finca token on that community's estate illustration
18
Handle ties
If players tie for most delivered, no one receives the finca tile

Winning

How to claim victory.

1
End the game
The game ends immediately when the final wooden finca token is placed on the board
2
Calculate final score
Add together all victory points shown at the top of request tiles and finca tiles in your play area
3
Determine the winner
The player with the most victory points wins
4
Break ties
In case of a tie, the player with the most food tokens in their play area wins
5
Handle final turn edge case
If the last turn involves awarding more finca tiles than wooden tokens remaining, award finca tiles normally even if tokens cannot be placed

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