Wingspan is a competitive, medium-weight, card-driven, engine-building board game from designer Elizabeth Hargrave and Stonemaier Games. It is the 2019 winner of the prestigious Kennerspiel des Jahres award.
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 (actions). These habitats focus on several key aspects of growth:
Gain food tokens via custom dice in a birdfeeder dice tower
Lay eggs using egg miniatures in a variety of colors
Draw from hundreds of unique bird cards and play them
The winner is the player with the most points after 4 rounds.
If you enjoy Terraforming Mars and Gizmos, we think this game will take flight at your table. Please join us in the Wingspan Facebook group to discuss the game!
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Name updates to birds (November 2023 and beyond)
The American Ornithological Society’s announced that some birds names will officially change so that no birds are named after people and that no names that are deemed offensive or exclusionary (e.g., to indigenous people and various cultures). This process will start with North American birds and will eventually apply to birds worldwide (for their English names). Stonemaier Games supports this effort.
As for the impact on Wingspan, we’re discussing how to proceed. We prefer to use the official names for birds, and we love the idea of celebrating birds for their unique qualities, traits, and habitats (opposed to any implied ownership or ties to a person). Given that these names are officially changing, when the AOS finalizes their name selections for sets released so far, it’s likely that we’ll make a pack of the renamed birds and offer them on our webstore. At that time we will also likely change the names of those birds in the game, rendering the historian bonus card an artifact of the past.
This isn’t a matter of erasing the past or pretending that some of it never happened–the past isn’t changing. Rather, it’s using the information we have in the present to not celebrate or honor those who committed atrocious acts in the past and to simply not be derogatory to various cultures. (Note that this is a general commentary that does not apply to all birds named after people–per the article, there are a variety of reasons that the names of people are being separated from the names of the birds, and by making a universal change, it avoids subjectivity.)
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Featured Components:
170 unique bird cards (57x87mm) + 10 unique bird cards in the swift-start teaching guide
26 bonus cards (57x87mm)
16 Automa cards (57x87mm)
103 food tokens
75 egg miniatures
5 custom wooden dice
5 player mats (400 x 280mm)
1 birdfeeder dice tower
2-piece custom tray (now made of eco-friendly sugarcane–it’s white instead of the purple shown in older photos and videos)
1 goal mat
8 goal tiles
1 first-player token
40 action cubes (8 per player)
1 scorepad (50 sheets; 1 sheet used for all players each game)
3 rulebooks
Featured Accessories and Expansions:
European expansion
Oceania expansion
Wingspan Asia
neoprene playmat
extra scorepad
Nesting Box
speckled eggs
jigsaw puzzles
and more!
Wingspan’s box measures 30x30x7cm, and it weighs 2.4 kg.
Re: Checkmate, Bitches! The Chess and other Board Games Thread
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2024 7:56 am
by Pruitt IV
My wife and I have started playing Go, and I absolutely suck.
Any tips?
Re: Checkmate, Bitches! The Chess and other Board Games Thread
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2024 10:24 am
by P.D.X.
EnochRoot wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 11:53 pm
Anybody ever played Wingspan? I’m thinking about pulling the trigger on it when we get back home to MD next week.
Wingspan is a competitive, medium-weight, card-driven, engine-building board game from designer Elizabeth Hargrave and Stonemaier Games. It is the 2019 winner of the prestigious Kennerspiel des Jahres award.
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 (actions). These habitats focus on several key aspects of growth:
Gain food tokens via custom dice in a birdfeeder dice tower
Lay eggs using egg miniatures in a variety of colors
Draw from hundreds of unique bird cards and play them
The winner is the player with the most points after 4 rounds.
If you enjoy Terraforming Mars and Gizmos, we think this game will take flight at your table. Please join us in the Wingspan Facebook group to discuss the game!
***
Name updates to birds (November 2023 and beyond)
The American Ornithological Society’s announced that some birds names will officially change so that no birds are named after people and that no names that are deemed offensive or exclusionary (e.g., to indigenous people and various cultures). This process will start with North American birds and will eventually apply to birds worldwide (for their English names). Stonemaier Games supports this effort.
As for the impact on Wingspan, we’re discussing how to proceed. We prefer to use the official names for birds, and we love the idea of celebrating birds for their unique qualities, traits, and habitats (opposed to any implied ownership or ties to a person). Given that these names are officially changing, when the AOS finalizes their name selections for sets released so far, it’s likely that we’ll make a pack of the renamed birds and offer them on our webstore. At that time we will also likely change the names of those birds in the game, rendering the historian bonus card an artifact of the past.
This isn’t a matter of erasing the past or pretending that some of it never happened–the past isn’t changing. Rather, it’s using the information we have in the present to not celebrate or honor those who committed atrocious acts in the past and to simply not be derogatory to various cultures. (Note that this is a general commentary that does not apply to all birds named after people–per the article, there are a variety of reasons that the names of people are being separated from the names of the birds, and by making a universal change, it avoids subjectivity.)
***
Featured Components:
170 unique bird cards (57x87mm) + 10 unique bird cards in the swift-start teaching guide
26 bonus cards (57x87mm)
16 Automa cards (57x87mm)
103 food tokens
75 egg miniatures
5 custom wooden dice
5 player mats (400 x 280mm)
1 birdfeeder dice tower
2-piece custom tray (now made of eco-friendly sugarcane–it’s white instead of the purple shown in older photos and videos)
1 goal mat
8 goal tiles
1 first-player token
40 action cubes (8 per player)
1 scorepad (50 sheets; 1 sheet used for all players each game)
3 rulebooks
Featured Accessories and Expansions:
European expansion
Oceania expansion
Wingspan Asia
neoprene playmat
extra scorepad
Nesting Box
speckled eggs
jigsaw puzzles
and more!
Wingspan’s box measures 30x30x7cm, and it weighs 2.4 kg.
Been meaning to check out the online version but I imagine it’s right up my alley.
Re: Checkmate, Bitches! The Chess and other Board Games Thread
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2024 10:57 am
by Johnnie
EnochRoot wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 11:53 pm
Anybody ever played Wingspan? I’m thinking about pulling the trigger on it when we get back home to MD next week.
Wingspan is a competitive, medium-weight, card-driven, engine-building board game from designer Elizabeth Hargrave and Stonemaier Games. It is the 2019 winner of the prestigious Kennerspiel des Jahres award.
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 (actions). These habitats focus on several key aspects of growth:
Gain food tokens via custom dice in a birdfeeder dice tower
Lay eggs using egg miniatures in a variety of colors
Draw from hundreds of unique bird cards and play them
The winner is the player with the most points after 4 rounds.
If you enjoy Terraforming Mars and Gizmos, we think this game will take flight at your table. Please join us in the Wingspan Facebook group to discuss the game!
***
Name updates to birds (November 2023 and beyond)
The American Ornithological Society’s announced that some birds names will officially change so that no birds are named after people and that no names that are deemed offensive or exclusionary (e.g., to indigenous people and various cultures). This process will start with North American birds and will eventually apply to birds worldwide (for their English names). Stonemaier Games supports this effort.
As for the impact on Wingspan, we’re discussing how to proceed. We prefer to use the official names for birds, and we love the idea of celebrating birds for their unique qualities, traits, and habitats (opposed to any implied ownership or ties to a person). Given that these names are officially changing, when the AOS finalizes their name selections for sets released so far, it’s likely that we’ll make a pack of the renamed birds and offer them on our webstore. At that time we will also likely change the names of those birds in the game, rendering the historian bonus card an artifact of the past.
This isn’t a matter of erasing the past or pretending that some of it never happened–the past isn’t changing. Rather, it’s using the information we have in the present to not celebrate or honor those who committed atrocious acts in the past and to simply not be derogatory to various cultures. (Note that this is a general commentary that does not apply to all birds named after people–per the article, there are a variety of reasons that the names of people are being separated from the names of the birds, and by making a universal change, it avoids subjectivity.)
***
Featured Components:
170 unique bird cards (57x87mm) + 10 unique bird cards in the swift-start teaching guide
26 bonus cards (57x87mm)
16 Automa cards (57x87mm)
103 food tokens
75 egg miniatures
5 custom wooden dice
5 player mats (400 x 280mm)
1 birdfeeder dice tower
2-piece custom tray (now made of eco-friendly sugarcane–it’s white instead of the purple shown in older photos and videos)
1 goal mat
8 goal tiles
1 first-player token
40 action cubes (8 per player)
1 scorepad (50 sheets; 1 sheet used for all players each game)
3 rulebooks
Featured Accessories and Expansions:
European expansion
Oceania expansion
Wingspan Asia
neoprene playmat
extra scorepad
Nesting Box
speckled eggs
jigsaw puzzles
and more!
Wingspan’s box measures 30x30x7cm, and it weighs 2.4 kg.
Yes, it's a really great game for not only the theme, but flow of the game. It isn't too difficult to grasp either. Very straight forward mechanics too. My friends who are birders bought the game and love it.
Plus it has several explanations so when you've gone through the deck enough times there are more birds for your aviary.
Coincidentally Stonemaier Games just announced Wyrmspan. That game features dragons instead.
Re: Checkmate, Bitches! The Chess and other Board Games Thread
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2024 11:00 am
by P.D.X.
Comparisons to Catan accurate?
Re: Checkmate, Bitches! The Chess and other Board Games Thread
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2024 11:16 am
by Johnnie
P.D.X. wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 11:00 am
Comparisons to Catan accurate?
Umm, maybe a little bit. In Catan when you roll the dice the number corresponds to the hex tile type for resource generation. In Wingspan it's a die with the resource on it.
In both cases you use your resources to pay for stuff, but in Catan it goes on the game board (mostly), but in Wingspan it goes into a tableau that you build out.
Each experience is unique unto itself, IMO and don't compare directly even if they have overlapping mechanics.
Each game is an excellent 'gateway game' into board gaming hobby beyond the Monopoly/Risk stuff that immediately comes to mind.
Re: Checkmate, Bitches! The Chess and other Board Games Thread
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2024 11:35 am
by mister d
Johnnie wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 10:57 amMy friends who are birders bought the game and love it.
We have a sentence a day where you could say "imagine if the Swamp 15-20 years ago could see this". This one is top tier.
Re: Checkmate, Bitches! The Chess and other Board Games Thread
Re: Checkmate, Bitches! The Chess and other Board Games Thread
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2024 4:28 pm
by EnochRoot
P.D.X. wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 10:24 am
Been meaning to check out the online version but I imagine it’s right up my alley.
You mean the game app in the app store? That thing looks sweet. Apparently it’s a fully-endorsed, full-function game (with the respective birds chirping their songs). I think I’m going to pull the trigger on that before I buy the board game. Sucks I’ll have to buy it twice to play a H2H game with my wife though.
EnochRoot wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 11:53 pm
Anybody ever played Wingspan? I’m thinking about pulling the trigger on it when we get back home to MD next week.
Wingspan is a competitive, medium-weight, card-driven, engine-building board game from designer Elizabeth Hargrave and Stonemaier Games. It is the 2019 winner of the prestigious Kennerspiel des Jahres award.
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 (actions). These habitats focus on several key aspects of growth:
Gain food tokens via custom dice in a birdfeeder dice tower
Lay eggs using egg miniatures in a variety of colors
Draw from hundreds of unique bird cards and play them
The winner is the player with the most points after 4 rounds.
If you enjoy Terraforming Mars and Gizmos, we think this game will take flight at your table. Please join us in the Wingspan Facebook group to discuss the game!
***
Name updates to birds (November 2023 and beyond)
The American Ornithological Society’s announced that some birds names will officially change so that no birds are named after people and that no names that are deemed offensive or exclusionary (e.g., to indigenous people and various cultures). This process will start with North American birds and will eventually apply to birds worldwide (for their English names). Stonemaier Games supports this effort.
As for the impact on Wingspan, we’re discussing how to proceed. We prefer to use the official names for birds, and we love the idea of celebrating birds for their unique qualities, traits, and habitats (opposed to any implied ownership or ties to a person). Given that these names are officially changing, when the AOS finalizes their name selections for sets released so far, it’s likely that we’ll make a pack of the renamed birds and offer them on our webstore. At that time we will also likely change the names of those birds in the game, rendering the historian bonus card an artifact of the past.
This isn’t a matter of erasing the past or pretending that some of it never happened–the past isn’t changing. Rather, it’s using the information we have in the present to not celebrate or honor those who committed atrocious acts in the past and to simply not be derogatory to various cultures. (Note that this is a general commentary that does not apply to all birds named after people–per the article, there are a variety of reasons that the names of people are being separated from the names of the birds, and by making a universal change, it avoids subjectivity.)
***
Featured Components:
170 unique bird cards (57x87mm) + 10 unique bird cards in the swift-start teaching guide
26 bonus cards (57x87mm)
16 Automa cards (57x87mm)
103 food tokens
75 egg miniatures
5 custom wooden dice
5 player mats (400 x 280mm)
1 birdfeeder dice tower
2-piece custom tray (now made of eco-friendly sugarcane–it’s white instead of the purple shown in older photos and videos)
1 goal mat
8 goal tiles
1 first-player token
40 action cubes (8 per player)
1 scorepad (50 sheets; 1 sheet used for all players each game)
3 rulebooks
Featured Accessories and Expansions:
European expansion
Oceania expansion
Wingspan Asia
neoprene playmat
extra scorepad
Nesting Box
speckled eggs
jigsaw puzzles
and more!
Wingspan’s box measures 30x30x7cm, and it weighs 2.4 kg.
Yes, it's a really great game for not only the theme, but flow of the game. It isn't too difficult to grasp either. Very straight forward mechanics too. My friends who are birders bought the game and love it.
Plus it has several explanations so when you've gone through the deck enough times there are more birds for your aviary.
Coincidentally Stonemaier Games just announced Wyrmspan. That game features dragons instead.
Thanks! I was looking for board game options yesterday and WireCutter listed 11 of the better options out there, but this one jumped off the screen at me.
Re: Checkmate, Bitches! The Chess and other Board Games Thread
Surprised Sabo hasn't interjected. He is probably too busy bird watching.
"Watching".
Re: Checkmate, Bitches! The Chess and other Board Games Thread
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2024 12:23 am
by EnochRoot
Oh yeah, I went over to Total Wine to pick up a too expensive bottle of Jefferson’s Bourbon, and came home to what I thought was a cooper’s hawk perched on my parents’ neighbor’s roof. He was preening himself. Or she was. I was about to detach my phone from the car when I saw a second bird come barreling in and displace the first bird to another spot five feet elsewhere on the roof. This bird was easier to see. Red head, dark body. Freakin turkey vultures. Both of them.
Birding involves let downs. Most always.
Re: Checkmate, Bitches! The Chess and other Board Games Thread
Re: Checkmate, Bitches! The Chess and other Board Games Thread
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2024 1:47 pm
by tennbengal
Played two games recently that I genuinely enjoyed --- Doomlings and Century:Golum Edition. Both play cards onto the table style games. Easy to learn, fun as hell to play. Easy recommend to each.
Re: Checkmate, Bitches! The Chess and other Board Games Thread
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2024 1:59 pm
by sancarlos
My wife plays it every morning. She yells random questions at me. “Do you know what is the capital of Belize?”
Re: Checkmate, Bitches! The Chess and other Board Games Thread
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2024 1:59 pm
by tennbengal
sancarlos wrote: ↑Mon Feb 19, 2024 1:59 pm
My wife plays it every morning. She yells random questions at me. “Do you know what is the capital of Belize?”
Springfield?
Re: Checkmate, Bitches! The Chess and other Board Games Thread
When Wordle and all the offshoots hit during lockdown I played that every day. Looks like they really upped their game with follow up questions. Much more interesting now. Also played one called Globle or something, where it'd show a globe, and when you'd guess a country, it'd show the map in varying colors based on how geographically close the correct answer was to the one you guessed.
Re: Checkmate, Bitches! The Chess and other Board Games Thread
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:15 pm
by Johnnie
And they're back for season 2:
Re: Checkmate, Bitches! The Chess and other Board Games Thread
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:38 pm
by Shirley
Whew
Wordle 1,039 6/6
Re: Checkmate, Bitches! The Chess and other Board Games Thread
