Taiga
Taiga Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Game Information
Ages: 5+. Number of players: 2-6. Duration: 15 minutes.
Contents
- 10 cards
- 10 wooden discs
- Wooden tokens
- A bag
- Rules of the game
Object of the Game
The player with the most points at the end of the game wins.
Setup
Mix up the wooden discs and place them in a circle at the centre of the table. Each disc has a different animal on each side - make sure that no four discs show the same type of animal at the beginning of the game.
Shuffle the cards to form a draw pile and place it, face down, outside the circle.
Deal 6 tokens to each player. The remaining tokens are set aside.
Game Play
1. Turn up one card
Draw the top card from the draw pile, and place it face up in the center of the circle. The animal shown is the one players will be looking for this round.
2. Find the hidden animals
The first player flips over a wooden disc of their choice.
If the animal is the same as the one shown on the card, the player takes a token from the circle and plays again. If there are no tokens in the circle, the player takes one from another player of its choice. Then, they can play again or pass their turn.
If the animal is different than the one shown on the card, the player must put one token in the circle and their turn is over. It's the next player's turn.
Players continue until all 4 animals are discovered. When a player finds the fourth animal in the family, that player wins all the tokens from the circle as well as the card. If there are no tokens in the circle, the player only takes the card.
Then, the player to their left will start the next round.
New Round
After the whole family has been found, a new round of searching starts with: (1) drawing a new card and (2) finding the animals.
If all four members of the family shown on the new card are already visible, the card is placed at the bottom of the deck and a new card is drawn instead. If all cards have been used, the game is over.
End of the Game
When there are no cards left to play, the game ends. To determine a winner, players count the number of tokens and cards they've won. Each token is worth 1 point and each animal card is worth 2 points. The player with the highest score wins.