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Rating:	7.4 Good
Popularity:	1
Difficulty:	Very easy
Year:	2016
Players:	1-4 players
Playing time:	20-146 minutes
Age:	8+

Official Site: Publisher's main page for the game Birdie Fight

Created by: ゆお (Yuo), ことり寧子 (Kotori Neiko), Claire Donaldson

Published by: こっち屋 (Kocchiya), Daily Magic Games, Gen-X Games

Alternate Names: Birdie Fight!, Singvögel, ことりファイト!

Description:

ことりファイト! (Birdie Fight) is card game about birds trying to achieve dominance in the forest. Each bird is a different color in the game.

Players are forest spirits, trying to secretly guide their chosen bird to success. The cards are numbered 1 to 7 in red, blue, green and white. The players lay a card from their hand to a 5x5 grid after nut tokens (points) are laid out for each row and column.

When the grid is full of cards, the rows and columns are checked. The color with the highest total in a line takes the nut token for that bird. Colors with tied totals are ignored, so a low value card can win the nut token for that bird.

When the nuts are totalled up for the birds, the players reveal their final hand card. That card is the bird they favoured (so more than one player might be helping the same bird), and for each player, the number on the card is added to the nut total to identify who has the dominant bird.

Since the players choose which bird they favour by leaving it as their final hand card, they can delay this choice until they see how the game is panning out.

The game rules come in Japanese and English, the game itself being language free. The game includes rules for 2-4 players or a solitaire/co-op mode for 1-2 players.

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Songbirds Game Rules

With the rising sun, the songbirds sing. They call to their mates and declare their territory. In this bountiful forest, only the loudest songbirds singing the most beautiful songs will claim the trees with the ripest berries and prime nesting spots.

Components

28 Songbird Cards
10 Berry Tokens
5 Negative Tokens
1 Crow Card
2 Score Cards
Instructions

Object of the Game

Each turn you will play one songbird with a specific volume (number) from your hand into the forest (play area).

You try to win a majority on columns and rows to gain delicious berries (points), but your opponents will be trying to do the same for the secret color they wish to aid. â€¦

In a 4-player game you must play with the Crow Card.

During setup, in step , instead of dealing a Songbird card from the shuffled cards, place the Crow Card with either side face-up in the center of the forest. Deal each player 7 Songbird cards.

During scoring, the Crow( A)) gives negative points to the strongest songbird color above, below, to the left, and to the right of it. The amount of negative points is relative to the position of the Songbird cards around the Crow. â€¦

Solo Variant

Setup

Follow the basic Setup instructions. During setup, in step 3 instead of placing 1 Songbird card at the center, place 9 cards in 2 diagonal lines in the forest.

During setup, in step 4, instead of dealing out all of the Songbird cards, only deal 1 to yourself. Leave the rest in a stack as the draw deck.

Game Play

The game is played over a series of turns. In each turn, the first draw 1 card from the draw deck. Then, take 1 action from the following: â€¦

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