Overview

Your goal is to earn the most points by building Landscapes for animals. These are represented with colored tokens arranged a certain way. The more arrangements you have, the more points you can earn.

Game Features

Tokens can be one of six colors.

• 23 blue tokens (representing water)
• 23 grey tokens (representing mountains)
• 21 brown tokens (representing woody trees)
• 19 green tokens (representing foliage or treetops)
• 19 yellow tokens (representing fields)
• 15 red tokens (representing buildings)

Animal cards indicate a Landscape arrangement you can form on your Personal board. Each Animal card has a set of Animal cubes in the upper right. If you make the arrangement shown on the card, you can place an Animal cube on that Landscape (on the token indicated). At the end of the game, you will earn points for the bottommost empty Animal cube space. Once all the cubes on a card are gone, the card is discarded, making room for another.

Gameplay

On a given turn, the player can take three actions in any order. One is mandatory, two are optional.

Mandatory Action

On each turn, the player must choose and place tokens. The Central board holds five sets of three colored tokens. A player must choose one set of these tokens and place them on their board/map. The token must be on an unoccupied space or on top of certain previously placed tokens (more on that in a minute).

• You cannot place a token underneath another token.
• You cannot place a token on top of an Animal cube

This diagram demonstrates which tokens can be put on which. Water and fields cannot have any tokens on top of them. A red token (building) can go on top of a gray (mountain lookout), brown (treehouse), or other red token (tower). Gray can go on other gray tokens to make taller mountains, up to a stack of three. Brown (wood) and green (leaves/foliage) can go on a brown token to make a taller trunk or a tree. Green can go on top of two brown tokens to make a very tall tree.

Optional Actions

Take an Animal card

Five Animal cards are available. Each has a different Landscape that grants Animal cubes (which score points). You can only take 1 card per turn. You can only have up to four Animal cards.

Place an Animal cube

If you have placed a valid pattern from an Animal card on your Personal board, you can take an Animal cube from that card and place it on the token indicated. Cubes must be taken from top to bottom.

At the end of a turn, the Animal cards are replenished and the Central board is restocked with tokens.

End of Game

The game ends when either...

• There are no tokens left to refill the central board.
• A player has 2 or fewer empty spaces on their board. The game continues until all players have completed the same number of turns, then ends.

Scoring

Animal cards

For each Animal card you gained, you score the points indicated in the topmost square without an Animal cube. A card with all its cubes still on it will score 0.

Landscapes

Each player scores points for the Landscapes on their Personal board that match certain features.

Variants

Spirit Cards

Nature's Spirit cards provide additional scoring conditions. During setup, you must choose between 2 randomly selected Nature's Spirit cards. This card counts as one of your four cards.

Nature's Spirit cards work similarly to Animal cards, but have more complex Landscape arrangements. Some score points for the number of Landscapes placed. Others score points for groups of connected Landscapes.