Forest Shuffle

Description

--- "In Forest Shuffle," players compete to build valuable forests by gathering trees and attracting dwellers for balanced habitats, ending when winter cards trigger scoring. Key mechanics include: - *Card acquisition* Players draw two cards per turn from the deck (face down) or clearing (face up) to add to their hand of six starting cards. - *Card playing* Play cards from hand by paying costs to place trees or split dweller cards (animals, plants, mushrooms) into play. - *Habitat building* Gather trees and attract species to them, creating ecologically balanced flora and fauna habitats. - *Endgame trigger* Three winter cards in the deck's bottom third; drawing the third ends the game immediately. - *Scoring* Tally points from trees and dwellers in personal forests; highest score wins. In Forest Shuffle, players vie to assemble the most valuable trees and then lure forest dwellers—such as animals, plants, or mushrooms depicted on halved cards (split vertically or horizontally)—to form ecologically balanced habitats. Each begins with six cards in hand. On a turn, players choose to draw two cards, either face down from the deck or face up from the clearing, adding them to hand, or play a hand card by paying its cost and placing it into play. Setup includes three winter cards placed in the bottom third of the deck; the game terminates instantly upon drawing the third, prompting point tallies from trees and dwellers in each player's forest, with the highest score victorious. As the inaugural title in Lookout Games' Greenline series, it uses FSC-certified paper and eschews plastic entirely. ---