The game mechanics remain unchanged: You pick up two (beautifully illustrated, btw.) cards or play a card into your moorscape. Players compete in gathering the most valuable trees, shrubs and terrain cards – to attract species, thus creating an ecological balanced habitat for flora and fauna.

A new type of card comes into play with terrains: this provides variety of terrain cards (unlike trees and shrubs) are played horizontally.

Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor offers several alterations:

• a new type of card comes into play with terrains: this provides variety
• terrain cards (unlike trees and shrubs) are played horizontally. They clearly serve as a livelihood or feeding ground for a different kind of species than trees or shrubs.
• new species with very own abilities and bonus actions
• caves come with assymetrical starting conditions and are drafted at the beginning
• reduction to 6 (instead of 8) tree symbols to enable bonuses more easily

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Each player has a set of four action cards to manage their gameplay, and the power of an action is determined by the slot the card currently occupies. One of those cards will let you play projects, and the other three cards will let you play animals of a specific habitat: forest, rock, or water.

Sanctuary is based on its predecessor Ark Nova, but modifies and simplifies many of the mechanisms of that game in an elegant and surprising manner. Your goal to find the best way to puzzle together your animals, buildings, and projects on your zoo map is an ongoing pleasure!

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The excitement of ending the round to catch your opponents off guard

The pleasure of playing your effect cards and making combos

It’s a set collection card game like Rummy. The origami created especially for the game is just the illustrations on the cards.

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First, there is an official Automa deck of 20 cards with 12 challenges to complete.

Next, a set of five brand new caves with individual powers to replace the regular caves of the base game.

Last but not least, this deck contains a selection of 15 special playing cards featuring selected and rare species from around the world. These cards have been available as promo cards in 2024.

With 55 cards in total, this set complements the flora and fauna of Forest Shuffle base game and offers endless possibilities for exploration and adventure.

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Starting with the first player and proceeding clockwise, each player will choose a set of 3 terrain tokens from the central area to place on their personal board. They may optionally choose an Animal card from the 5 displayed and/or place an Animal cube from their Animal card(s) on any completed patterns on their board that match their personal Animal cards. There is a 4-card limit per player. After their turn, refill with a new set of 3 tokens and a new Animal card if needed.

Placement of the terrain tokens will depend on the personal Animal card goals, and scoring rules for the various terrain types (mountain, field, forest, etc). For example, mountain tiles score based on how high they are (1 tile scores 1, while 3 tiles stacked score 7), but the mountain scores zero if it is not adjacent to at least one other mountain. If all the cubes on a given Animal card have been placed, the card is set aside and a new card can be drawn. The cards are scored at game end based on the highest number that isn’t covered by a cube.

The games ends when there are no tokens left in the bag to refill the central area, or at least one players has 2 or fewer empty spaces on their player board. Play continues until all players have had an equal turn that round. The player with the highest points is the winner.

Optionally, you can use Nature’s Spirit cards for richer gameplay. During setup, each player chooses 1 of 2 spirit cards and places a Spirit cube on the card. They follow the same placement rules as Animal cards, but tend to have an ongoing effect once completed. The spirit card does count towards the 4-card hand limit.

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In this medium-weight board game for 1-4 players, you take turns placing path tokens on one of the two boards. Placing a token on the main board allows the player to get cards, but playing them requires meeting certain requirements. Playing a token on the bonfire board activates special actions (which helps to implement a chosen strategy) and gives the opportunity to achieve goals that provide additional points. Throughout the game, players collect cards in their meadow and surroundings area. At the end, the player with the most points on cards and on the bonfire board wins.

Meadow also includes envelopes with additional cards to open at specific moments…

Multilingual version includes both French and English!

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Contents:

• 45 Unique Habitat Tiles
• 5 Unique Starter Habitat Tiles
• 35 Wildlife Tokens
• 30 Deluxe Wooden Landmarks Tokens
• 60 Unique Landmarks Scoring Cards
• 15 Unique Wildlife Scoring Cards
• 15 Nature Tokens
• 1 Full Color Scorepad
• 1 Rulebook

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Components include 180 multifunctional cards, a central game board, and a scoring pad. During the game, players attempt to gather more trees than their opponents. Taking turns playing cards from their hand, they must attract wildlife by combining plants and animals for extra points or bonus actions. But the animals have different preferences, some favoring dense treetops, others lush undergrowth, which players must take into consideration as they combine plants and animals to earn points. The player with the highest score wins the game.

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In each round, players – each for themselves – turn over cards from their decks that show different guardian animals. These helpful forest creatures bring various elements with them. But be careful, among the animals are some solitary creatures that don’t mix well with others. With the elements, the players can perform one or two actions and thus plant trees, extinguish fires, move on the Circle of Spirits to activate various bonuses, attract new animals, or receive magic fragments. At the end of each round, all players must together face the remaining flames in the circle. If they cannot fend them off, they have to add Fire Varan cards to their deck – grouchy solitary animals that do not contribute any elements. The only way to get rid of them is with magic fragments! The game ends as soon as one person manages to fulfill one of the three possible victory conditions.

Living Forest is an advanced family game or a light core game with a push-your-luck mechanism and beautiful illustrations. Although all players work towards a common goal to save the forest, only one person can win in the end.

Contents:

• 1 Circle of Spirits central board

• 4 Forest individual boards

• 14 Starting Guardian Animal cards for each of the four Spirits of Nature

• 23 Level 1 Guardian Animal cards

• 16 Level 2 Guardian Animal cards

• 12 Level 3 Guardian Animal cards

• 23 Fire Varan cards

• 4 Spirit of Nature standees

• 1 Sacred Tree standee

• 4 Starting Protective Tree tiles

• 2 Protective Tree dispensers to put together

• 58 Fire tiles divided into 3 levels

• 20 Fragment tiles

• 12 Victory tiles (3 per Spirit of Nature)

• 1 Guardian Animal board

• 1 Fire Varan board

• 39 Protective Tree tiles

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In Dorfromantik: The Board Game, up to six players work together to lay hexagonal tiles to create a beautiful landscape and try to fulfill the orders of the population, while at the same time laying as long a track and as long a river as possible, but also taking into account the flags that provide points in enclosed areas. The better the players manage to do this, the more points they can score at the end. In the course of the replayable campaign, the points earned can be used to unlock new tiles that are hidden in initially locked boxes. These pose new, additional tasks for the players and make it possible to raise the high score higher and higher.

Contents:

• 104 Hexagonal Landscape tiles
• 33 Task markers
• 5 wooden Hearts
• 1 Balloon tile
• 1 plastic stand
• 1 Score pad
• 1 Campaign pad
• 5 boxes with secret contents to unlock
• 1 Rulebook

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