Parks: Wildlife
Parks: Wildlife Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
New Cards
All of the new Canteen, Gear, Season, and Park cards can be shuffled into their matching decks.
New Setup
At the start of the game, each player is dealt two Canteens and two Year cards—use the New Year cards if playing with Parks: Nightfall. Players then choose to keep one Canteen—placing it faceup in front of them—and one Year card—placing it facedown in secret. The other cards are discarded to the bottom of their matching deck. In base Parks, the Year deck is returned to the box as normal.
Similarly during gameplay, when a player gains a Canteen they will now draw two Canteen cards—keeping one and discarding the other to the bottom of the deck.
When setting up the Trail for the first Season, find the Park / Gear Advanced Site. In Parks: Wildlife, this site is always used as the Advanced Trail Site for Season 1 and on.
Now, shuffle all Advanced Trail Sites from the base game and this expansion. Place three facedown next to the Trail Head and return the rest to the box. These three will be the Advanced Sites for the following Seasons—meaning not every Advanced Site will make an appearance in each game. Details on each of the new Advanced Sites can be found on the back page.
Lastly, similar to Nightfall, each player should start the game with a Wildlife token.
Bison Meeple
Parks: Wildlife also incorporates a bison meeple, symbolizing a wildlife sighting at a Park. After setup, place the Bison on top of the leftmost Park card on the board.
(The printed guide illustrates the Bison sitting on the leftmost of the Park cards.)
Bison Wildlife Action
Whenever a player visits the Bison's Park, they may also turn in 1 any token to gain a Wildlife token. This may be done before or after visiting the Park, but the Park must always be visited as part of the action. If done before, the Wildlife token can be used toward visiting the Park.
Moving the Bison
The Bison then moves to the next Park to the right—regardless of whether the player activates the Bison's Wildlife action. A new Park immediately comes out as usual. If a player still has Instant or Gear Actions remaining, then they may continue to use them—which may include visiting the Bison's new Park.
Once the Bison moves off the rightmost available Park, it does not go to top of the Parks deck. Instead, it moves back to the leftmost Park. When this happens, the active player—the one who just visited the Bison's Park—chooses to discard an available Gear card to the bottom of the deck and reveals a new one.
Reserving and the Bison's Park
The Bison's Park can never be reserved. When reserving, players may still reserve the other two available Parks without the Bison or one from the top of the deck as usual.
New Parks
The new Iconic Wildlife Parks now have a Wildlife requirement as part of their cost. As seen in Nightfall, some of the new Parks also have Instant Actions to the right of the token requirement. These activate immediately upon visiting and include:
- Visit or Reserve a Park
- Gain a Canteen
- Gain a Wildlife token
Additional Notes
Don't forget to activate any Instant Actions when purchasing a Gear. Some actions allow you to take a Photo using a specific resource token, such as Water. If you have the Camera, you may use one of any resource instead as usual.
Stampede Variant
If you would like to see more Gear cards at lower player counts, try this variant. When the Bison returns to the leftmost Park, discard all three available Gear (instead of only one) and reveal three new ones.
WILDLOVE Variant
Similar to Nightfall, we recommend the WILDLOVE Variant where Wildlife can equal 2 of the brown ANY TOKEN symbol, i.e. 2 any tokens → Photo.
New Trail Sites
The printed guide shows the four new Trail Sites as follows. It does not give them names, so they are listed in the order printed:
- Activate one of your filled Canteens.
- Turn in a Photo to gain Forest, Mountain, Sun, and Water.
- All other players gain a Sun; you take the action of an open Trail Site without a Hiker.
- Turn in a Wildlife to gain 2 Sun and 2 Water.
The printed sheet shows the Photo and Wildlife sites' rewards as a list of icons after "to gain" without a connecting word, so they are transcribed as printed; the sheet does not state whether the player gains all of them or chooses one.