Beginning with the starting player, the game proceeds in a clockwise direction. When it is your turn, you have the choice between two actions:

• Build: buy plantations from the market and build immediately on the game board.
• Harvest: score at least one plantation region and collect income.

A player must perform one of these actions. Passing a turn is not allowed.

In addition, you may perform one or more special actions using your landscape tiles at any time and in any order during your turn.

Select a row from the market (marked with arrows) and buy all the plantations from that row. Then pay 1 coin for each plantation by moving your money marker back that many coins on your player mat’s money track.

Example: The player may buy plantations from any row as long as they have enough money. Three possibilities are marked in the image.

You must always buy all the plantations in a row. The acquired plantations must then be built immediately on the game board. It is not allowed to store plantations for later. Buying and building is regarded as a single action. (If there are 3 or less plantations left on the market after buying, a new Finca is built and the market will be refilled.)

If you cannot pay for all the plantations in a row, or you cannot build them all, you may not buy that row. If, however, you mistakenly take a row of plantations from the market and then realize that you cannot pay for or build all of them, you must place the tiles you cannot build back in the market in the order of the numbers on the market spaces. You receive a penalty of minus 3 points for each tile you must return to the market (move your worker on the scoring track accordingly).

You can build new plantations on the game board in two ways:

• By placing adjacent a matching plantation that is part of your own region (marked with one of your workers).
• By starting a new region of plantations adjacent to the road leading from a Finca. (On every Finca there are 4 roads where new regions may be started.)

When you begin a new plantation region, take the right-most worker from your player mat and place it onto the newly placed plantation. If you are expanding one of your regions, no further workers are necessary.

When a plantation region is harvested, the worker from that region is removed. Plantation regions without workers are neutral and do not belong to anyone.

When building plantations, you must observe the following rules:

• You may only build plantations on open spaces or spaces where landscape tiles are placed. You may not build plantations on spaces with rocks or building sites for Fincas.

• Each road leading from a Finca (as well as from a building site) must have a different colored plantation. (See image: Since there is already a lemon plantation next to the road on the right, an additional lemon plantation may not be built next to the upper road). NOTE: For the family variant, this rule does not apply.
• Plantation regions of the same color owned by different players cannot be adjacent to each other.

Merging: You may, however, merge plantation regions of the same color under the following circumstances:

• You may build a plantation that joins two of your own plantation regions of the same color. Return one of the workers immediately to your player mat (the left-most free space on your player mat).
• You may build a plantation that connects one or more of your regions to one or more neutral regions of the same color, provided that the total size of your regions is at least as large (number of tiles) as the total size of the neutral regions before the merger. If the total size of the neutral regions is larger merging is off-limits. Usually you will merge one of your regions with one neutral region.

Taking landscape tiles:

• If you build a plantation tile on a space which is occupied by a landscape tile, you take that tile and place it in front of you.
• If it is a Wild Horses tile, place it face-down. One bonus point for each horse on the tile will be added to your score at the end of the game.
  The online game immediately scores Wild horses.
• If it is an action tile, place it face-up. Action tiles allow special actions that can be performed at any time during your turn. An action tile can also be used during the turn in which it is obtained.

The specific actions of individual tiles are explained at the end of the game rules.

Scoring a Finca:

If, at the end of a turn, all 8 spaces around a Finca (including diagonally adjacent) are occupied (by plantations, landscape tiles or rocks), that Finca is scored.

Now determine who has the largest total of plantations in regions adjacent (also diagonally) to that Finca. The size of each region is the number of plantation tiles in that region. If a player has several plantation regions adjacent to the Finca, the plantations of each of those regions are added together.

The player with the most plantations is awarded the higher value of points given on the Finca tile. He moves his worker on the scoring track that number of spaces forward. The player with the second most number of plantations receives the lower value of points. All other players receive nothing.

If several players are tied for the most plantations, all of these players receive the full number of points for 1st place and no players receive points for 2nd place. If there are several players who have the second-most number of plantations, each of them receive the full number of points for 2nd place.

If there is only one player left with regions adjacent to a Finca when it is scored, he only receives the points for 1st place.

Then flip the Finca tile face-down to indicate that it has been scored.

Example: Klemens (blue) has a region of 5 lime plantations, Stefan (red) has 2 lime and 3 orange, Anja (yellow) has 3 orange, Andrea (green) has 4 lemon and 3 grapefruit. Andrea (7 in total plantation tiles) scores 10 points, Klemens and Stefan (both 5) receive 5 points each.

New Finca and refill the market:

If, after you take plantations from the market, there are 3 or fewer plantations remaining there, and the market was refilled completely the last time this happened, you must immediately build a new Finca.

Draw the top finca tile from the stack, choose one of the 3 building site tiles on the game board, and replace the tile with the new Finca. Remove the building site tile from the game and draw a new one from the stack, adding it to its matching space on the game board (same character).

• After placing the Finca, build your newly purchased plantations on the game board, following the building rules. You may now, however, begin new regions adjacent to the roads of the new Finca.
• Then refill the plantation market by drawing tiles from the cloth bag and placing them on the free spaces in the market in the order of the numbers on those spaces until all 12 spots are filled.
• If there are not enough tiles left in the bag, the market is not completely filled. Additional fincas can now only come into play by using the Landscape tile "Milestone".

Instead of building, you may harvest one or more of your plantation regions, as long as you possess at least one on the board. Harvesting plantations awards you with points and income.

• For each plantation tile harvested, you receive 1 point. For each plantation tile with a well, you receive 2 points.
• After scoring a region of plantations, you take the worker from that region and place it back in the left-most free space on your player mat.

Harvested plantations remain on the board. They belong to no one and are considered neutral. No player may add plantations to a neutral region. (exception: merging with own region, see action Build).

Example: Klemens harvests his region of 6 orange plantations, 2 of which have a well. He earns 8 points and his worker comes back to his player mat.

• The points are recorded using the worker on the scoring track.
• If you don't want to harvest another region, you receive your income. The income depends on the number of workers on your player mat. If 1 worker is there after harvesting, you receive 2 coins, if there are two workers, you get 4 coins, with 3 workers you receive 6 coins, for 4 workers 7 coins, and with 5 workers 8 coins.

Example: After harvesting, Klemens has 3 workers on his player mat. He receives 6 coins income.

• Move your marker on the money track forward the appropriate number of spaces to record your income. The maximum amount of money you can have is 12 coins. If you receive income that would exceed this limit, keep the marker on “12” and the rest of the income is forfeited.

The game ends when all the plantation tiles have been built.

All Fincas which have not been encircled are now scored. This time, however, only the player with the most plantations in regions adjacent (also diagonally) to the Finca receives points, and he receives the smaller number (what the 2nd place player would receive during the game). No points are awarded for the second-most plantations and for all other players. If there is a tie for the most, then all of those players receive the full number of these points.

• Afterwards, all plantations that still have workers are harvested for points.
• Finally, each player adds points to his score from his landscape tiles. Wild Horses are worth 1 point per horse, and each action tile that was not used is worth 1 point.
• All points are marked on the scoring track. The player whose worker is farthest on the track wins. In case of a tie multiple players may win.