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Wingspan

Expert Wingspan builds toward round goals and bonus cards from turn one. Grassland eggs feed forest tuck engines. A four-bird combo in one habitat is worth more than spreading across three.

Quick winning principles

  • Draft bonus cards that match your opening habitat—Ravens and Franklin's Gull for cavity nesters.
  • Spam eggs on grassland birds before round 4 egg scoring.
  • Tuck from forest when round goal rewards bird count, not points.
  • Use pink powers on opponents' turns for extra food and cards.

Ideal strategy

  1. 1

    Bonus card routes: Cartographer plus large wingspan birds, or Photographer with three birds that tuck.

  2. 2

    Egg strategy: grassland holds six eggs cheaply—fill it before converting food to new birds in round 3.

  3. 3

    Tuck engines: Great Horned Owl plus birds that tuck from forest create card draw without spending actions.

  4. 4

    Round goal timing: commit to the round 4 goal on round 3's last action, not mid-round.

  5. 5

    Food engine: pink powers that gain wheat and berry on opponents' turns save two actions per round.

  6. 6

    Endgame: bonus card plus forest row of five birds with eggs often beats a wetland-only point rush.