Songbirds

1-4 Players, 20 Minutes, Ages 8 and over

In Songbirds, players are forest spirits, trying to guide their secretly favored bird to success. Players begin with a handful of bird cards which are numbered 1 to 7 in various colors. Players choose one bird as their favored bird then, one by one, strategically place the rest of their cards in a 5x5 grid in hopes of having the most presence in the various rows and columns.

When the grid is full of cards, the rows and columns are checked. The coloured bird with the highest total in each line takes a nut token worth victory points!

When the nuts are totaled up for the birds, the players reveal their final hand card. That card is the bird they favoured (so more than one player might be helping the same bird), and for each player, the number on the card is added to the nut total to identify who has the dominant bird.

Since the players choose which bird they favour by leaving it as their final hand card, they can delay this choice until they see how the game is panning out.

There are also expansion modules to explore!

Apart from the English rules, the game is language free. The game includes rules for 2-4 players or a solitaire/co-op mode for 1-2 players.