Presentation

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Litte Songbirds

Birds and seeds! You collect birds and seeds at the bird feeder, using bird cards out of 72 cards for females and males  in six species and values, and 36 feeder cards comprising 30x seeds and 3x Crows plus 3x Squirrels for Bad cards. The feeder has two/three feeding perches for two or three/four players; underneath you place four seed cards and one bird card at each perch; those birds are feeding at the perch. You hold four bird cards, three more are displayed openly.

As the active player, you play an open card at a row at a perch and compare the sum of birds queueing on the ground with the value of the bird at the perch: If the total is higher than the value of the feeding bird, you take – for value difference 1 to 4 – a seed card from the row under the feeder, maybe together with a bad card, or for values 5+ a card from the deck. Then you take the feeding bird for your collection and resolve a Bad card – a crow chases away a bird from your collection, the squirrel steals a seed card. Birds in the queue advance, the first in line becomes the feeding bird. Then you repeat summing of the birds in the queue, etc. Whenever the queue total is smaller than the value of the feeding bird, you add a card from your hand to your collection. When the stack of feeding cards is empty, you score – at the end of the round – pairs of male + female birds of the same variety and the same value, majorities in varieties and seed cards.

Behind those enchanting illustrations you find a perfectly implemented, cut-throat competition with lots of tactics and little chance, demanding tight decisions about pairs of birds, sets of birds or seeds.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Matt Riddle, Ben Pinchback

Artist: Mike Langman, atelier198

Price: ca. 13 Euro

Publisher: Lookout Spiele 2018

Web: www.lookout-spiele.at

Genre: Card sets

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Enchanting illustrations

Little chance, lots of strategies and tactics

Topic very well implemented

Age on box 10+, in rules 8+

Compares to:

Arboretum

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0