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In Forest Shuffle, players compete to gather the most valuable trees and attract species to them, thus creating an ecologically balanced habitat for flora and fauna.

To start, each player has six cards in hand, with cards depicting either a particular type of tree or two forest dwellers (animal, plant, mushroom, etc.), with these latter cards being divided in half, either vertically or horizontally, with one dweller in each card half.

On a turn, either draw two cards- either face down from the deck or face up from the clearing- and add them to your hand, or play a card from your hand by paying the cost to put it into play.

Each tree and dweller shows a cost, and to pay this cost, you must discard cards from your hand into the clearing face up. If you play a tree, flip the top card of the deck into the clearing, then place the tree in front of you. If you play a dweller, pay only the cost on the dweller you choose, then slide this card under a tree that has an empty side that matches the dweller you want to play. (A tree can have cards played on all four sides of it: top, bottom, left, and right.)

Alternatively, you can play a card face down as a tree sapling. This card costs nothing and can have dwellers played on it, but it has no species, whereas each tree is one of eight species.

After you play a card, you can use the effect on this card (drawing cards, placing additional cards, taking another turn, etc.) or gain the bonus you gained if you paid for this card with cards of the same color — or both, if applicable, with the effect taking place before the bonus.

If at the end of your turn the clearing contains ten or more cards, place all of these cards in the box out of play.

During set-up, three winter cards were placed into the bottom third of the deck. When the third winter card is drawn, the game ends immediately, then players tally their points based on the trees and dwellers in their forest. Whoever scores the most points wins.

That's it and you can play it right now by clicking the link below:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=forestshuffle

But if you are curious about the game and want to play it in no-time, do not forget that you can learn it in a bliss by selecting the interactive tutorial.
We can only thank Lookout games and their team, as well as the game designer Kosch and the developer firgon for bringing the game to your beloved platform.
They deserves a lot of love for this and their strong support, especially cause they release the game for all as FREE from now until Essen Spiel (after which it will go Premium).

It's the end of SUMMER OF GAMES.

There's today... and tomorrow.
And after Thursday, the calendar displayed on the home page will end.
So, how many of you were able to catch more than a single trophy?
And how many of you will be able to check them all on tomorrow night?
We will share the statistics about them in the dedicated topic.

Thanks a lot for your support of BGA. There's now more than 9 Million accounts and a huge part of the players can use the platform thanks to the Premium users. That's a huge international community, and we are more than happy that more and more people join the platform every day.

That's it for today,
Thank you for reading,
And until next week... Take care, and play fair!
(and the best to everyone going back to school soon).

I always love looking for Ned

Since you asked here, so far I'm just missing tomorrow's.

Edit:
You get a new trophy
A Whale New World!
Congratulations! You visited all of The Summer of Games daily releases for 31 days! - The Summer of Games 2023


Though I think I remember reading that these trophies could be used to customize our profile or something? How do I do that? (and if I'm remembering it wrong, what are they for?)

Thanks for that month. This was fun. I kind of did not achieve day 26, though i checked here everyday. That's sad, but all the new games were fun.

"they release the game for all as FREE from now until Essen Spiel (after which it will go Premium)".
Finally a clear announcement!

this game is so awesome! But the best way to win is Wolves+Deers, hope some addons will come and add more animals and combinations) Now is hard win with bats, butterflies, amphibous and low-card strategy under the tree (ants, herbs, hedgehogs), most of games the winer base his card on wolves and deers and also some deers give point for cloven-hooves) So when other play lynx, boars, bats and all other types they give much less. And even with a wolf cost 3 that is so much it still the best combo to win, even cards that are 3-4 in a deck and you put them all (salamanders, fireflies) + all 5 kinds of butterflies can't do anything agains some wolves and some deers combo. Like there is only win strategy among all good and interesting mechanics. Who got more deers and wolves wins... Maybe not every time, but most of the games.

M00nspell wrote: ↑02 September 2023, 03:45 this game is so awesome! But the best way to win is Wolves+Deers, hope some addons will come and add more animals and combinations) Now is hard win with bats, butterflies, amphibous and low-card strategy under the tree (ants, herbs, hedgehogs), most of games the winer base his card on wolves and deers and also some deers give point for cloven-hooves) So when other play lynx, boars, bats and all other types they give much less. And even with a wolf cost 3 that is so much it still the best combo to win, even cards that are 3-4 in a deck and you put them all (salamanders, fireflies) + all 5 kinds of butterflies can't do anything agains some wolves and some deers combo. Like there is only win strategy among all good and interesting mechanics. Who got more deers and wolves wins... Maybe not every time, but most of the games.

you can win with 20 tree and 0 cost blueberries

BOOOO get us all hooked then switch to premium. BOOOOOO