2016 · Animals
Songbirds
Players act as forest spirits guiding different colored birds to dominance by secretly favoring one bird with their final hand card. Each turn players place numbered color cards onto a shared 5×5 grid after nut tokens are assigned to rows and columns. When the grid fills, each line is scored: the color with the highest total in that row or column claims its nut token, while tied colors are ignored. Players reveal their final hand card to declare which bird they backed, adding that card’s number to that bird’s nuts to determine each player’s score. The game supports 1–4 players and plays over two rounds.
- Players
- 1–4 best 2
- Playing time
- 20 min
- Age
- 8+
- Complexity
- 1.6 / 5
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Full stats in Ludoya- 36
- Plays logged
- 40
- Players
- 21m 27s
- Average play
- 16
- In collections
- 3
- On wishlists
3.1/10
from 6 Ludoya reviews
Evan1.6 Gorgeous artwork, but not much game there. You divide a deck of cards between all the players, then take turns playing bird cards into the grid. When a row or column is full of cards you look to see which bird has the highest printed sum of numbers across it's cards, and that color bird gets the scoring token located along the edge of the grid. At the end of the game each player has one card left over, which is the bird they score for. The player who lucks into getting the highest number of that winning bird is the ultimate winner. It's like baby arboretum, and despite my love of the pretty bird drawings I don't see playing this again. ★ Art, Iconography and components functional ☆ Clever or interesting mechanisms ★ Reasonably low downtime between turns with mildly AP players ☆ Multiple plays stay interesting ☆ Low or mitigatable luck elements ★☆☆☆☆ Raw enjoyment
Tenuki4.0 Dec 2018
Free, on web, Android and iOS
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