Tabletop games
The Farming Game
Weekend Farmer Company, 1979
The Farming Game is a tabletop game published by Weekend Farmer Company in 1979. It is played with 2 to 6 players, from age 10 and in about 120 minutes.
- players
- 2–6
- minutes
- 120
- years
- 10+
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The box
- Publisher
- Weekend Farmer Company
- Designer
- George Rohrbacher
- Year of release
- 1979
- Official website
- farmgame.com
About the game
The Farming Game is a board game simulating the economics of a small farm. Published in 1979, it was designed by George Rohrbacher, a rancher in Washington state. The Farming Game painfully reflects the real-life difficulties of running a farm. The names and places in the game are the names of families that have farmed for generations in the Yakima Valley and other parts of Central Washington. When Rohrbacher invented the game, it was a desperate time for his failing farm and small family, which is reflected in the difficulty of the game, and the multitude of points taken into consideration in farming that are often left up to chance. The publisher claims that the game has "been used in schools all over the world".Information from Marquoir’s game database, which cross-checks several open sources. Spotted a mistake? Write to us from the Contact page.