Wingspan Review – A Bird Collecting & Engine Building Board Game

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Placing yourself in the shoes of bird collectors and ornithologists has always been challenging. Wingspan is an interactive bird-collecting and engine-building game that takes the mechanics of making a well-thought-out and well-oiled machine to a place where it meets competitive bird knowledge and cooperative playing. Even if you know nothing about birds, this sweet, beautifully illustrated board game is perfect for any friend group.

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Don’t be intimidated when you see all the gorgeous goodies you get in this box. Wingspan isn’t nearly as complicated as it seems at first glance.

Made for up to five players, each player gets a colourful placemat that explains the different habitats where you can place your birds and actions that players can take each turn. Speaking of actions, each player gets to choose a colour to represent their actions with wooden action cubes, each spent as players take turns and used as part of the scoring system at the end of the game.

The box includes a sturdy cardboard birdfeeder dice tower which houses the custom wooden dice that players use to gain food and the cardboard tokens that represent food. There is also a beautifully illustrated bird token to represent the first player of each round.

Wingspan could only be a bird-collecting game with a collection of egg miniatures painted a pastel variant of each player’s chosen action cube colour.

Several cards and manuals are included in the box, most of which are the different birds that can be played throughout the game. There are also bonus cards and a stunning plastic tray to display the cards.

Point scoring is helped with a goal board and a scorepad, but I’ll explain all that later, along with the