Indian Summer Fan Site

Fall In New England

Before winter makes its appearance, a particularly warm fall bathes the forest in a golden shimmer. During this Indian Summer, New England blossoms one final time. Treetops are ablaze with countless colors, a living rainbow, with colors ranging from green to orange to red.

The first leaves have begun to fall and our steps along with the diligent squirrels rustle the colorful foliage.

On our walks through the woods we discover all kinds of little treasures. We collect berries, nuts, mushrooms, and feathers. We pause for a moment to watch the shy inhabitants of the forest before we set off towards home where a good game and a hot tea awaits us. …

The solo game differs only in a few aspects from the multiplayer game. Each game takes about 15 minutes. For a particularly exciting challenge, you can play up to three successive games.

Setup

Shuffle the 6 Forest Floors and take 1 Forest Floor and 1 Backpack. Return the remaining Forest Floors, Backpacks, the start player marker, and the Bush to the box. You will not need them for your solo game(s).

Flip the two game board halves to the solo game side and place them next to each other in the middle of the table. Randomly split up the Leaf tiles into 3 stacks of 25 tiles. …