Cascadia
Why it's in our library
We keep Cascadia on our families-and-adults shelf for players who like a calm, thoughtful game.
How to play
The goal is the highest score from your animals and your habitats.
Everyone starts with a small starter piece of three joined hexes. Four scoring cards are drawn, one for each animal type, and each card sets the pattern that animal wants. In the middle of the table sits a row of four tiles, each paired with an animal token drawn from a bag.
On your turn, take one tile and its paired token. Place the tile so it touches your landscape. Then you may put the token on any empty tile of yours that shows that animal. If you can't, or would rather not, it goes back in the bag. Refill the row afterward.
If all four tokens in the row match, they are swapped out automatically. If three match, you may swap them.
Placing an animal on a special single-habitat tile earns a pine cone. On a later turn, a pine cone lets you take any tile with any token, or clear away the tokens you choose and draw new ones.
The game ends after a fixed number of turns each, set by the tile supply. Score each animal by its card, then each habitat by your largest connected group of that terrain. The largest group of each terrain earns a bonus, and each unused pine cone is worth a point. Highest total wins.
At the science station
Play a game of Cascadia, then head over to the science station for the habitats talk.
Good for
- Players
- 1–4 from the publisher
- Ages
- 10+ from the publisher
- Play time
- 45 minutes from the publisher
Full rules in the box.