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Cascadia

Draft habitat tiles and wildlife tokens to build a scoring ecosystem of wildlife patterns, habitat corridors, and landmarks.

Credits: Jarrod Moore

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Cascadia can be played with just the base game components, or with the Landmarks expansion mixed in. If you are using Landmarks, use the adjusted tile counts and extra setup steps below so the landmark rules are part of the normal game flow.

The game is played over 20 turns per player. On each turn, you will draft a Habitat Tile and a Wildlife Token, then add them to your environment.

If you are playing with Landmarks, you may also place Landmark Tokens during the normal tile-placement step when your newly placed tile expands a habitat corridor to the required size.

The game ends immediately when a Habitat Tile cannot be replaced in the display because the face-down tile supply is empty.

Score in this order:

  1. Wildlife Scoring Cards
  2. Habitat Corridors
  3. Habitat Corridor Majorities
  4. Landmarks, if playing with the Landmarks module
  5. Nature Tokens

The player with the most points wins. If there is a tie, the tied player with the most Nature Tokens wins. If still tied, the tied players share the victory.

Set up as a 2-player game, with these changes:

  • Give yourself only 1 Starter Habitat Tile
  • Place the Habitat Tile stacks to the left side of the display
  • Take your turn as usual
  • Before refilling the display, discard the Habitat Tile and Wildlife Token furthest from the draw stacks
  • Slide the remaining tiles and tokens away from the draw stacks
  • Draw 2 new Habitat Tiles and 2 new Wildlife Tokens to refill the empty spaces

The game ends after your 20 turns, then you score normally. With Landmarks, use the Landmarks solo setup and scoring rules as part of the same flow.