How to Play Wingspan | Official Rules

You are bird enthusiasts-researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, and collectors-seeking to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves. Each bird extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your habitats. Each habitat focuses on a key aspect of the growth of your preserves:

• Gain food tokens via custom dice in a birdfeeder dice tower
• Lay eggs using marbled egg miniatures in a variety of colors
• Expand your bird collection, drawing from hundreds of unique bird cards

The winner is the player with the most points accumulated from birds, bonus cards, end-of-round goals, eggs, cached food, and tucked birds.

Components

• 1 goal board
• 1 scorepad
• 40 wooden action cubes
• 170 bird cards
• 103 food tokens
• 1 bird tray
• 26 bonus cards
• 8 goal tiles
• 5 player mats
• 75 egg miniatures
• 1 first player token
• 1 birdfeeder dice tower
• 5 custom wooden dice
• 1 rulebook
• 1 Appendix

Setup

Global Components

1. Bird cards: Shuffle the bird cards into a deck. Place it next to the bird tray, then populate the tray with 3 face-up bird cards.

2. Supply: Place all food and egg tokens in the supply. These are tokens accessible to all players.

3. Birdfeeder: Toss the food dice into the birdfeeder dice tower.

4. Goal board: Choose which type of goals you will play with, and place the goal board on the table with that side facing up:

   1. Green: For a game with more direct competition for goals, choose the side that has 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place for each goal. This is the default.

   2. Blue: For a game with less direct competition between players, choose the side that awards 1 point for each targeted item. This is good for new players.

5. Goal tiles: Shuffle the goal tiles without looking at them (they're double-sided). Place 1 goal tile (random side up) on each of the four blank spaces on the goal board. Return extra goal tiles to the box.

6. Bonus cards: Shuffle the bonus cards into a deck and place it on the table.

Player Setup

1. Each player receives:

   • 1 player mat
   • 8 action cubes of one color
   • 2 random bonus cards
   • 5 random bird cards
   • 5 food tokens (1 of each type: )

   You may keep your hand of cards private or public throughout the game.

2. Keep up to 5 bird cards and discard the others. For each bird card you keep, you must discard 1 food token. You will probably want to keep food tokens shown in the upper left of the bird cards you selected.

   For example, you might keep 2 bird cards and 3 food, or you might keep 4 bird cards and 1 food.

3. Choose 1 bonus card to keep, and discard the other. You may look at your bonus cards while selecting which birds to keep (and vice versa)

4. Randomly select the first player and give them the first-player token.

Tip: When selecting bird cards, think about how they will help you get more cards or food early in the game. Brown powers can be especially helpful!