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Cortiça

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$9.6 $15 In stock

Category: Wallet Game

2 Players - 20 Minutes - Ages 14+

Cork (Cortiça, in Portuguese. /kuɾˈti.sɐ/) can be used to make a variety of products and Portugal is the world's largest producer of cork. Cork Oak trees take 25-30 years to mature, and their bark is extracted every 9 years. Play as competing farmers, aiming to harvest the most corks.

Cortiça is a miniature worker placement game. Every round players place their workers, deciding the actions they will take.  The actions are resolved from left to right. When an action is resolved the worker is placed in the stack. 

After all actions are resolved, the player whose worker is at the bottom of the stack chooses one active action to rest; it will not be available to use in the next round. The previous rested action becomes active again. 

In the next round, the players draw and place the workers from the stack, one by one. Play continues until a player has at least 6 cork after all actions are resolved at the end of a round. The player with the most cork wins.

CREDITSDesigned by Manuel Correia
Art by Sara Mena

Customer Reviews (4.2 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Ryan C. ★★★★★

Twenty minutes is the perfect length for this one, we usually play two or three rounds back to back. The cork theme isn't just decorative either, the whole thing is two-player only so it's tight and mean rather than watered down.

Ava C. ★★★★★

The tree-hugging theme sounds dry on paper, but the 20-minute rounds keep the pressure on without overstaying their welcome. My partner and I have already played four times this week, and the cork production angle makes every move feel surprisingly tactile.

Elizabeth ★★★★☆

The tree-to-table lifecycle actually adds a nice layer of strategy to the worker placement, and the 20-minute playtime is perfect for a quick lunch break. My only gripe is that the rulebook could be clearer on scoring mid-game, but we figured it out by the second round. Four stars because the cork-