# Whispering Woods

Whispering Woods is a board game for 1–4 players. It plays in 25–40 minutes and is meant for ages 8 and up. Ludoya players call it best with 2. It is rated 8.3 out of 10 by 9 Ludoya reviewers. The cheapest copy in stock is $26.99 (United States).

- **Players:** 1–4 (best with 2)
- **Playing time:** 25–40 minutes
- **Minimum age:** 8+
- **Complexity:** 2.1 out of 5
- **Year published:** 2024
- **Categories:** Puzzle, Territory Building, Animals, Abstract Strategy
- **Mechanics:** Chaining, Race, Tile Placement, Grid Movement, Network and Route Building, Solo / Solitaire Game
- **Ludoya rating:** 8.3 out of 10, from 9 reviews
- **Owned by:** 36 Ludoya players
- **Plays logged on Ludoya:** 126
- **Unique players:** 106

**Designers:** Bernardo Vásquez, Cristian Bustos

**Artists:** Weberson Santiago

**Publishers:** Fractal Juegos

## Where to buy in United States

| Shop | Price | Link |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cardhaus Games | 26.99 $ | https://www.cardhaus.com/whispering-woods-dinged-dented-20-off-at-checkout/ |
| 401 Games | 33.95 $ | https://store.401games.ca/products/whispering-woods |
| Board Game Bliss | 33.95 $ | https://www.boardgamebliss.com/products/whispering-woods |
| TLAMA games | 595 Kč | https://www.tlamagames.com/deskove-hry/septajici-les/ |
| Svet deskovych her | 629 Kč | https://www.svet-deskovych-her.cz/produkty/14731/septajici-les |
| Milan Spiele | 26.2 € | https://www.milan-spiele.de/whispering-woods-deutsch-p-38366.html |
| Reflexshop | 9990 Ft | https://reflexshop.hu/a-suttogo-rengeteg |
| Zatu Games | 27.99 £ | https://zatu.com/products/whispering-woods |
| Spielezar | 34.9 Fr. | https://www.spielezar.ch/brettspiele/whispering-woods-de |

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## Rules questions

### Can I take a mission tile if I don't have any animal pieces left?

No — when you choose the option to take a mission tile you must also place an animal on it, so you cannot take a mission tile if you have no animals available; in practice this means you can take mission tiles at most three times in the game (page 6).

### When and how can I renew the market by turning over mission tiles, and is there a cost?

At the start of your turn you may once per turn turn over a completed mission tile to renew the market (replace the six available tiles with six new woods tiles and return the discarded six to the bag); each mission tile used this way still gives its normal victory points but costs you −1 VP at final scoring (page 5).

### Do I refill the market on the very first turn of the game?

No — you skip the market refill step on the first turn of the first player, but thereafter the market must have six tiles at the start of each turn (page 5).

### Can I complete a mission if removing that mission tile would split my woods into separate sections?

No — you are not allowed to complete a mission if removing that mission tile would cause your woods to split into two or more separate sections (page 7).

### What happens if I earn a combo but the combo card for that level is already gone?

If the exact combo card you earned is no longer available you must take the next lowest available combo card instead (page 8; example on page 9).

### What triggers the last round and how are ties broken at game end?

The last round triggers when a player reaches the mission-tile threshold (2 players 10, 3 players 9, 4 players 8) or when there aren’t enough tiles left to fill the market; after the final round add mission tile points and combo cards and subtract −1 per tile used to renew the market, and ties are broken by the player with fewer total tiles in their woods (if still tied the players share the win) (page 10).

## Links

- [This page](https://www.ludoya.com/games/whispering-woods)
- [Whispering Woods in the Ludoya app](https://app.ludoya.com/g/whispering-woods)
- [BoardGameGeek entry](https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/411402)

_Data from Ludoya, updated 2026-09-19. Ratings, ownership and play counts are Ludoya's own._