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Ranked #25

Wingspan

A competitive engine-building card game where bird enthusiasts attract species to wildlife preserves and assemble the highest-scoring habitat network. Each bird extends a habitat’s actions, turning food, eggs, and card draws into increasingly powerful combinations.

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Players

1-5

Play time

40-70 min

Age

10+

Complexity

2.46/5

Rating

8.06

Harder to teach Low interaction Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 3.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.2/5

High replayability

Interaction 2.5/5

Low interaction

Player scaling 3.5/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 3.5/5

Deep strategy

Player control 3.5/5

More strategic control

Setup time About 5 min
Teach time About 20 min
Table footprint Standard
Campaign commitment No campaign
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Wingspan is a competitive, medium-weight, card-driven, engine-building board game from Stonemaier Games. It's designed by Elizabeth Hargrave and features over 170 birds illustrated by Beth Sobel, Natalia Rojas, and Ana Maria Martinez. 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. —description from the publisher From the 7th printing on, the base game box includes Wingspan: Swift-Start Promo Pack.

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Play and group

Players
1–5
Best with
1–4
Play time
40–70 min
Age
10+
Complexity
2.5/5
App
None app Source
Player elimination
No Source
Downtime
Moderate Source

Practicalities

Setup time
About 5 min Source
Teach time
About 20 min Source
Teardown time
About 5 min Source
Table footprint
Standard Source

Campaign and continuity

Campaign commitment
No campaign Source
Group continuity
Flexible Source
Resettable
Fully Resettable Source
Save system
None; each game is self-contained. Source
Consumable components
The scorepad is consumable; all core gameplay components are reusable. Source

Edition and product

Optional extras
European, Oceania, Asia, and Americas expansions add birds and modules. Source
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Elizabeth Hargrave

Artists

2
Ana Maria Martinez Jaramillo Natalia Rojas

Publishers

1
Stonemaier Games

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