Wingspan Asia

2022 · Economic

Wingspan Asia

Explore the birds of the Asian continent and add them to a personal wildlife preserve. Players earn points by playing bird cards into habitats, meeting round goals and bonus objectives, and laying eggs. The box functions as a stand‑alone 1–2 player game, includes a Duet cooperative mode for two, and offers additional bird and bonus cards to expand the original game up to five players. A Flock mode for larger groups (6–7 players) is also included when combined with the base game’s components.

Players
1–2 best 2
Playing time
40–70 min
Age
10+
Complexity
2.6 / 5
7.7 on Ludoyafrom $36.00AnimalsEducationalSolo / Solitaire GameEnd Game BonusesOpen Drafting

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Full stats in Ludoya
284
Plays logged
163
Players
1h 8m
Average play
251
In collections
23
On wishlists
2
Pre-ordered

7.7/10

from 44 Ludoya reviews

  • Fiore6.0

    New game modes are utterly insignificant. For those, rating would be a "2". The fact that the game wasn't conceived and designed to work these ways and these were a "patched up" addition is evident. New cards are more than welcome instead.

  • beqs the 1st7.0

    Imo the best way to play wingspan as 2 players. The new board gives the game a small layer of extra depth and player interaction without really raising the complexity.

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Rules questions

Answered from the rulebook by Ludoya's rules assistant.

When I take a habitat action, do I have to activate every bird in that row?

No — when you take Gain Food, Lay Eggs, or Draw Cards you place your cube then activate any brown “When Activated” powers in that row from right to left, and using each power is optional (pages 4, 12).

Can I use food tokens cached on my bird cards to pay a bird’s food cost when playing it?

No — cached food on bird cards is not spendable; when you play a bird you must pay its food cost using food tokens beside your player mat (page 6), while cached food is listed as a separate victory-point resource (page 12).

Do I pay eggs when I take the Lay Eggs action, or when do eggs get paid?

Eggs are a cost only when playing a bird into columns 2–5 (you discard eggs to pay that cost); the Lay Eggs action gives you eggs to place on birds and some slots let you pay 1 food to lay an extra egg (pages 6, 8).

If I take a card from the face-up bird tray, when do the empty tray spaces get refilled?

Empty face-up spaces are not refilled immediately — you wait until the end of your turn to refill them, and at the end of each round all remaining face-up cards are discarded and replaced (pages 9, 14).

How do ‘Once between turns’ (pink) powers work — can they trigger more than once between my turns?

Pink “Once Between Turns” powers may be triggered on opponents’ turns but each such power can be used only once between your own turns (page 12).

What happens if players tie on an end-of-round goal?

On the green (majority) side tied players place cubes on the tied place and combine the points for the tied places, then divide those points among the tied players (rounding down); some multiplayer modes treat ties as friendly so both get full points (pages 15, 14).

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