Villa Panda

About this board game

Villa Panda is a strategic board game for 2–4 players, with games lasting about 90 minutes. Released in 2024, it invites players to become hungry pandas competing to lead a peaceful village in the hills.

Your path to victory combines construction, resource management, and carefully timed card activations. Build new structures, expand your influence, and hire additional pandas to strengthen your position. Every building, recruited panda, and clever decision can help you move toward the required 12 victory points.

Each round follows three distinct phases:

• Dice throwing: The active player rolls two dice in front of everyone.
• Card activation: The sum of the dice activates Panda cards belonging to all players. The active player then chooses the result of one die and activates only their own cards showing that value.
• Actions: The active player places their meeple in an area of the main board to gain resources or perform a special action.

Available resources include water, bamboo, bao, and gold. Action areas let you trade resources at the Market, build buildings by placing pandas overlapping, hire a panda, or activate a panda. Deciding where to place your meeple and how to use the dice results is central to developing your position.

When a player reaches 12 points, the game’s ending is triggered. The remaining players complete the round until play returns to the player who caused the ending, who takes one final turn. In Villa Panda, the player with the most victory points at the end claims the title of Panda Leader.