Wingspan - The Tabletop Family

4.7 (728) · € 23.00 · En Stock

Gather round fellow bird enthusiasts! Have we got a game for you! Not a bird enthusiast? Well, let me let you in on a little secret…neither was I until I played Wingspan. But after multiple plays this game has turned me into a bonafide ornithologist, if only in my own mind. Believe me, after playing this, you’ll be calling yourself one too! Three player set-up Gameplay Overview 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. In the pursuit of personal and common goals, players will work to attract the best birds to their habitats. Each bird provides a unique action which extends a chain of combinations in the habitat they reside. 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. The winner of the game is the bird enthusiast with the most points after four rounds. Quick Breakdown There is a lot going on in Wingspan. All of it lovely. So we want to cover the game play quickly to give a bit of context for our review of the game below. This will not be a complete rundown of the rules. If you want to see and learn exactly how to play Wingspan, check out the always great Watch It Played video on . To start the game, players are dealt a hand of five random bird cards, two random goal cards, and one of each food type. Before the game can begin, players will need to choose one goal card, and which birds to keep in their starting hand. 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! On your turn, you have the option of choosing one of four actions. You can play a bird card from your hand into it’s specified habitat, spending the food and egg costs required of the bird. You can gain food from the bird feeder, the dice tower where the five wooden food dice are rolled. Select the dice you want, remove it from the feeder, then take the corresponding food token. 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. Finally you can choose to draw more bird cards. 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. Once you have made it to the leftmost spot, your turn is over and play proceeds clockwise. The round is over when all players have used all their actions. 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. Because players use an action marker on the goal sheet, everyone will have one less action in the next round. 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. 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. 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 Wingspan retails for $55 and for the sheer amount of gameplay and the quality of components, this is a fantastic price! Seriously. Inside the box are some of the most beautiful components you’ll ever see in a game. They are the type of quality, top notch components that I have come to expect from Stonemaier Games. Every piece of this game is well thought out and intentional. 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. At the bottom of each card, there’s also a depiction of the location the bird can be found and often a little fact about the bird as well. Speaking of all those cards, their storage and in game use was considered in the wonderfully designed Game Trayz container/organizer that is included. There is plenty of space to hold all of the bird cards, the bonus cards, and the Automa cards that are included for solo play. Not only that, but the top comes off and is then able to be used to splay the face-up bird cards, making them easy to pick up, while the remaining cards in the deck stay nicely inside the tray, ready to be drawn. The wooden eggs really up the table presence of the game. They come in five colors for aesthetic purposes only and it is the perfect touch. They look so amazing sitting on your player mat, and the flat bottom allows them to sit without rolling all over. I was worried that that could be a problem, but so far, so good, they stay nicely put where you place them. The food tokens are cardboard rather than wooden like the eggs. While I’m sure a third party will develop upgraded components for these, I actually prefer the cardboard tokens. Some birds give you the ability to cache food on them which then gives you points during final scoring. If these were three dimensional like the eggs it could become a little busy. Food is mostly just drafted and