![]() There are 170 unique bird cards and each card features a beautiful, lifelike illustration of the bird, as well as all of the necessary information required for players to know how to play the bird. Every piece of this game is well thought out and intentional. They are the type of quality, top notch components that I have come to expect from Stonemaier Games. Inside the box are some of the most beautiful components you’ll ever see in a game. Wingspan retails for $55 and for the sheer amount of gameplay and the quality of components, this is a fantastic price! The player with the most points is declared the winner What’s in the Box A look at just SOME of the contents inside Wingspan Once all rounds are completed, players will use the included score sheet to tally up the points from bird cards, end-of-round goals, bonus cards, eggs, cached food, and tucked bird cards. This repeats after each round, meaning that players will start round one with 8 actions, but going into the fourth and final round will only have 5 actions to work with. Then the end-of-round common goal sheet is consulted, players take one of their action markers to mark their spot on the sheet, and the next round begins.īecause players use an action marker on the goal sheet, everyone will have one less action in the next round. The round is over when all players have used all their actions. Once you have made it to the leftmost spot, your turn is over and play proceeds clockwise. To choose an action, you’ll take one of your eight action markers, place it on the right most open space of a habitat, take the action, and then move your token to the left one space at a time, activating any bird powers if desired along the way. Finally you can choose to draw more bird cards. Perhaps you’ll want to take the lay eggs action, taking the allowed amount of eggs and placing them on your birds in your habitat. Select the dice you want, remove it from the feeder, then take the corresponding food token. You can gain food from the bird feeder, the dice tower where the five wooden food dice are rolled. You can play a bird card from your hand into it’s specified habitat, spending the food and egg costs required of the bird. On your turn, you have the option of choosing one of four actions. You can keep all of the birds if you want, but you’ll need to discard one food token for every bird you keep, so choose wisely, this is where your engine building begins! To start the game, players are dealt a hand of five random bird cards, two random goal cards, and one of each food type.īefore the game can begin, players will need to choose one goal card, and which birds to keep in their starting hand. If you want to see and learn exactly how to play Wingspan, check out the always great Watch It Played video on YouTube. This will not be a complete rundown of the rules. So we want to cover the game play quickly to give a bit of context for our review of the game below. The winner of the game is the bird enthusiast with the most points after four rounds. There are three different habitats available for players to attract birds: forest, field, or wetlands, and each habitat allows players to focus on key areas of growth: gain food, lay eggs, or draw bird cards. Each bird provides a unique action which extends a chain of combinations in the habitat they reside. In the pursuit of personal and common goals, players will work to attract the best birds to their habitats. Wingspan is a medium weight, card-driven, engine building board game where players are bird enthusiasts working to attract the best birds to their wildlife preserves. But after multiple plays this game has turned me into a bonafide ornithologist, if only in my own mind.īelieve me, after playing this, you’ll be calling yourself one too! Three player set-up Gameplay Overview Not a bird enthusiast? Well, let me let you in on a little secret…neither was I until I played Wingspan. Gather round fellow bird enthusiasts! Have we got a game for you!
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