- Score sheets
- Board games
- Agricola
How to score Agricola
Agricola scoring happens once, after the harvest that ends round 14. Every farm is scored category by category: fields, pastures, crops and each kind of animal earn -1 to 4, then rooms, family, cards and stables add, while empty spaces and begging cards take away.
- 1 to 5 players
- Nothing scores during play
- Scored after round 14
- Most points wins
Tabletales is free on iPhone and iPad.
This is the real Scorepad, live: Mara’s chart points added up on the keypad, minus signs and all.
Agricola
- BGG #66
- 30 to 150 min
A farming game over 14 rounds: send your family out to plow, sow, fence, build and raise animals, and feed everyone at each harvest. At the end, the whole farm is scored, and anything you neglected costs you.
Year, players, time and rank from BoardGameGeek.
How to play Agricola, in brief
You have 14 rounds to grow a farm that feeds a growing family. The best farm on the scoring chart wins.
- Set up your farmEach farmyard starts with a two-room hut and 2 family members. The starting player takes 2 food, the others 3.
- Place a person, take an actionEach round adds an action. Take turns placing one person at a time on a free action space and using it, such as plowing a field.
- Feed everyone at the harvestAfter rounds 4, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 14, harvest your fields and pay 2 food per person (1 for a newborn); each missing food costs a begging card. Then 2 or more animals of a kind breed one baby, if there’s room.
- Score after round 14The game ends with the last harvest, and farms are scored.
Every part of the farm counts, even the empty parts.
Nothing is scored during play. After the last harvest, each player looks up their farm on the scoring chart, one category at a time. Having none of something costs a point and no category pays more than 4, so spreading out pays.
The scoring chart
| Category | Points |
|---|---|
| Fields0 or 1 field: -1. Then 2: 1, 3: 2, 4: 3, 5 or more: 4 | -1 to 4 |
| PasturesEach fenced area counts once. None: -1, then 1 a pasture | -1 to 4 |
| GrainNone: -1. 1 to 3: 1, 4 or 5: 2, 6 or 7: 3, 8 or more: 4 | -1 to 4 |
| VegetablesNone: -1, then 1 each | -1 to 4 |
| SheepNone: -1. 1 to 3: 1, 4 or 5: 2, 6 or 7: 3, 8 or more: 4 | -1 to 4 |
| Wild boarNone: -1. 1 or 2: 1, 3 or 4: 2, 5 or 6: 3, 7 or more: 4 | -1 to 4 |
| CattleNone: -1. 1: 1, 2 or 3: 2, 4 or 5: 3, 6 or more: 4 | -1 to 4 |
| Each unused farmyard spaceEmpty and unfenced | -1 |
| Each fenced stable | 1 |
| Each roomClay 1, stone 2, wood 0 | 0 to 2 |
| Each family member | 3 |
| Improvements and cardsThe points printed on them, then any bonus points | As printed |
| Each begging card | -3 |
- Play out round 14The game ends with the harvest at the end of the 14th round. Then each farm is scored once.
- Score the seven farm categoriesFields, pastures, grain, vegetables, sheep, wild boar and cattle each earn -1 to 4 from the chart. Crops still on your fields count with the ones in your supply.
- Count the farmyardLose 1 for each unused space. Add 1 per fenced stable, 1 per clay room, 2 per stone room and 3 per family member.
- Add the cards, subtract the beggingAdd the points printed on your improvements and any bonus points, then take off 3 for each begging card. The highest total wins.
Mara’s balanced farm wins with 44.
Three farms after the harvest of round 14, each scored in the chart’s order. Mara has a little of everything except cattle. This is the game on the Scorepad above.
| Player | Chart points, in the scoring sheet’s order | Final |
|---|---|---|
| Mara | 4 fields, 2 pastures, 5 grain, 2 vegetables, 5 sheep, 3 boar, no cattle, 1 unused space, 2 fenced stables, 5 stone rooms, 5 family, 4 card points, 2 bonus3 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 - 1 - 1 + 2 + 10 + 15 + 4 + 2 | 44 |
| You | 5 fields, 3 pastures, 6 grain, 4 vegetables, 2 sheep, 2 boar, 1 cattle, 2 unused spaces, 5 clay rooms, 5 family, 4 card points, 1 bonus4 + 3 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 1 + 1 - 2 + 5 + 15 + 4 + 1 | 40 |
| Dev | 3 fields, 3 pastures, 8 grain, 1 vegetable, 4 sheep, no boar, 2 cattle, 3 unused spaces, 1 fenced stable, 4 clay rooms, 4 family, 3 card points, 1 begging card2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 - 1 + 2 - 3 + 1 + 4 + 12 + 3 - 3 | 27 |
You read the chart. Tabletales does the adding.
Tabletales is a scorepad and scrapbook for game night. In Agricola you look up each category on the scoring chart as usual. Then type each player’s total, or their chart points: Tabletales adds it up, marks the best farm and saves the game with the night.
- A whole farm on the keypadKeep Highest wins. Type each total, or type the chart points in order, minus signs included (3 + 2 + 2 ... - 1 - 1), and Tabletales adds them up.
- The chart stays on paperThe Scorepad has no named rows, so the categories are yours to look up. The printable sheet below has a box for each one.
- Ties share the trophyTied players share the trophy. The Revised Edition breaks a tie on building resources left in your supply.
- And the night is keptSave it with who played and a photo of the farms. Agricola gets its own history: how often you play it, who with, and the best farm yet.
- Everyone who was there
- Photos from the table
- Agricola, with its scores
Common Agricola scoring mistakes
- Counting fenced spaces instead of pasturesA pasture is one fenced area, whatever its size. Each pasture scores once.
- Forgetting the crops on your fieldsGrain and vegetables still sitting on your fields count, along with the ones in your supply.
- Skipping the minus points-1 for each crop or animal you have none of (each animal separately), -1 per unused space and -3 per begging card.
- Scoring wooden rooms or unfenced stablesNeither scores. An unfenced stable does stop its space counting as unused, though.
Agricola scoring, answered
- How does scoring work in Agricola?
- Nothing scores during play. After round 14, each farm is scored from a chart: fields, pastures, grain, vegetables, sheep, wild boar and cattle earn -1 to 4 each, then rooms, family, stables and cards add points while unused spaces and begging cards subtract.
- What is a good score in Agricola?
- The Revised Edition rulebook calls 30 points respectable for a first game, and says experienced players aim for 40 or more.
- How do you break a tie in Agricola?
- In the Revised Edition, the tied player with more building resources left in their supply wins. The 2007 rules let tied players share the win.
Agricola score sheet
Print one for the end of the game: a box for every line of the chart, for up to five farms, with the final at the bottom.
Score another game
The 2007 rules let tied players share the win or play again; the 2016 Revised Edition breaks a tie on building resources left in supply and calls begging cards begging markers (still -3 each). The family game scores the same way, and the solo series asks for 50 points in its first game and more in each one after. Rules checked on 19 October 2026 against the 2007 rulebook, the Revised Edition rulebook and Board Game Arena. Agricola is a trademark of Lookout Games. Tabletales is not affiliated with it.
Keep score tonight. Keep the night for good.
Tabletales adds up every hand, then saves the whole night: the games, the scores, the photos and who was there.
