r/wingspan

I have been trying to score 180+ against the AIs and just managed to get 179. Note that this is using the standard pack + Asian and European expansions. I got extremely lucky with some of the birds I was pulling and managed to set up a decent water engine early.

I’m wondering if anyone here has broken the 180 point barrier without using the Oceania expansion, and if so, how you managed to do it?

I somehow managed to play every New World vulture/condor card in Wingspan in a single game... they just kept on showing up, so I decided to go all in. I lost by a lot cause they are not very good. No regrets though.

It also seemed like a good excuse to share some fun vulture facts for you nerds.

(1) Did you know there are only seven living species of New World vultures (family Cathartidae)? Wingspan includes five of them:

• Turkey Vulture

• Black Vulture

• King Vulture

• California Condor

• Andean Condor

The only two missing are the Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture and Greater Yellow-headed Vulture.

(2) 🦅 "Condors" are just giant New World vultures. They're not a separate family or group, just the two largest species of Cathartidae.

(3) 👑 The King Vulture (my favorite) is actually more closely related to the two condors than it is to the Turkey or Black Vulture. So it could be called "King Condor" or "Lowland Condor" or "White condor". But common names don't make taxonomic sense :)

(4)🌎 New World vultures and Old World vultures evolved their scavenging lifestyle independently (!!). They look alike because of convergent evolution, not because they're close relatives. Indian Vulture is a representative of Old World Vultures in my board as well.

(5) ✈️ The Andean Condor is one of the largest flying land birds on Earth, with a wingspan of over 3 m (10 ft), and can soar for hours with remarkably little wing flapping thanks to mountain updrafts.

Vultures are some of nature's most important cleanup crews, preventing the spread of disease and recycling nutrients. Anyway... all those scavengers couldn't scavenge me enough victory points. 😄

Me and another player both had 5 birds in our grasslands and the end of round bonus tracker had us tied the whole time. But at the end when it calibrated scores, the other player got the higher points and I got 2nd place for that goal. Is this just a glitch or am I missing something?

I have been waiting for this to happen ever since I saw the Daurian Jackdaw card for the first time! ~30 GAMES LATER IT FINALLY HAPPENED!

I got the jackdaw in my starting hand, and since the first round goal was already "no goal", I waited to play it on round 2.

While I started with a forest engine in the first few rounds, I got lucky with Swan+ Grackle to be able to tuck 6 cards, and pivotet to the Wetland. Tge Southern Screamer comboed extrmelly well with the Swan! The swan replaces the tucked card under it every round, so it gives the three cards to tuck under the with Swan consistently. Win-win and sustain a 8-tuck habitat activation, ocasional 9 tucks.

End result is 95 (!!) tucks and 174 points total. I Still haven't broken the 100 tucks personal goal... my record is still 99 from a previous game (I posted here a couple of years ago).

Loving the games with the duet board+hummers! Board setup is very quick with all the extra resources.

Feel like I’ve just wasted an hour of my own free time on a game I’m suddenly not allowed to see through to the end for literally no reason feelsbadman

Should the round time limit not be proportional to the amount of actions that are required to be taken due to the cards in play?

I really thought I had an engine and could get the "doomsday prepper" achievement. Only scored any fish with the last two turns.

This wingspan fan art card that says and has all the info for a red headed woodpecker clearly does not show a red headed woodpecker. Does anyone have an explanation for this?

The basic plastic bags were too boring for such an accurate and entertaining board game! I 3d printed the egg boxes and designed and cut the labels using a Cricut Explore 3.
I don’t like to do things the easy way!
Next I’m going to attempt to recreate the dice tower using balsa wood, we’ll see how that goes!

Even with the perfect opening hand still almost 20 points away 😩 what is the best way to get it?

Hi there!

Congratulations to all who guessed the previous Guess the Bird - it was indeed Snow Bunting! We can now clearly see that you're just too good at this game. And since it's not really a game anymore but a clear sign of our shared everything-is-a-bird affliction, we decided to heat* things up a bit.

Quite ironic, considering the recent heatwave has left us feeling wrecked and thoroughly discombobulated. We can definitely relate to the fine specimen in today's picture, which also happens to be the bird in question.

What bird hides behind those tired eyes? Which one is just as ruffled and done with everything as this fox? Which Wingspan bird do we have in mind this time?

Guess the bird!
*” Spice things up” was not funny enough, sorry.

This felt like a gracious fall of the cards all around but what a way to double stack on bonus points. Endangered Species bonus + Red Crowned Crane + Wrybill in a bonus card focused match.

The Western Yellow Wagtail says to "count this bird twice for every objective it qualifies for."

In my game, it looks like it qualifies for 13 points. Does that mean I score 13 points normally and then another 13 because it counts twice (26 total)? Or is the 13 already accounting for the ability?

I attached a screenshot in case I'm missing something obvious. Thanks!