Description:
A family card game (ages 8+) of skill and wonder for 2-4 players based on The Book of Birds by Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane.
This elegant and educational hand management game asks players to become conservationists and rescue the many birds on the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds endangered list by building card tableaus across 7 categories within 8 rounds.
Conservationists can add or discard cards from their hand using cards placed on the game board, but must remain within the limitations of the scenario cards and action dice that change with each new turn. Conservationists must also be aware of various threats (and threat cards) to bird life in each turn, which can also deduct points from their final total. The player with the highest point total at the end wins!
Players will immerse themselves in the extraordinary art of Jackie Morris and the textual magic of Robert Macfarlane, all brought together by Michael Rieneck, a leading European game designer with over 60 published games to his credit.
The Game of Birds comes with:
- 140 Bird Cards
- 28 Threat Cards
- 6 Scenario Cards
- 6 Action Dice
Brief description:
ROBERT MACFARLANE's Sunday Times- and New York Times-bestselling books include Is a River Alive?, Underland, Landmarks, The Old Ways, The Wild Places and Mountains of the Mind, as well as a book-length prose-poem, Ness. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, won prizes around the world, and been widely adapted for film, music, theatre, radio and dance. He has also written operas, plays, albums, choral works, and films including River and Mountain, both narrated by Willem Dafoe. He has collaborated closely with artists including Olafur Eliasson, and with the artist Jackie Morris he co-created the internationally bestselling books of nature-poetry and art, The Lost Words and The Lost Spells. In 2017, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the E.M. Forster Prize for Literature, and in 2023 in Toronto he was the inaugural winner of the Weston International Award for a body of work in the field of non-fiction. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and is presently working on a graphic-novel re-telling of the Epic of Gilgamesh.