Wingspan
Wingspan is a competitive, medium-weight, card-driven, engine-building board game from Stonemaier Games.
You are birders seeking to attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves. Each habitat in the game is associated with an action (gaining food, laying eggs, drawing cards). Each bird that you play makes you better at those actions, and triggers its own power each time you use its habitat.
Awards and Accolades
Play Creators - Game Designer of the Year (MojoNation)
Golden Geek Awards: Game of the Year, Family Game, Strategy Game, Artwork and Presentation, Card Game, Innovation, Solo Game
Nominated for Dice Tower Awards: Best Family Game, Best Art, Best Two-Player Game, Best New Designer, Best Game Theming, Best Solo Game, Best Game of the Year
Also best game of 2019 from: Swiss Gamers Award, Tantrum House, Board Game Quest, Brettspiel News, Pub Meeple Board Game Ranking Engine, 3 Minute Boardgames, Board Game Revolution , Plumpy Thimble
Best of 2019 lists: Popular Mechanics, Smithsonian Magazine, Vulture, Paste, Board Game Quest, Game Informer, Everything Board Games
Best of the decade: Paste
Most Important of the Decade: Tom Vasel and Rahdo (Wingspan starts at 50 min)
Tutorials
Selected Press
Vox: One Good Thing: A Soothing Tabletop Game About Birds (2/2/2022)
Slate: How a Boardgame about Birds Became a Surprise Blockbuster (8/15/2021)
Wall Street Journal: Love Birdwatching? You'll Love This Game (6/23/20)
All Things Considered: Not So Angry Birds: The Ornithology-Inspired Board Game 'Wingspan' (4/9/20)
hortwave: A Board Game Where Birds (and Science) Win (2/21/20)
BirdNote: Wingspan Takes Flight (12/5/2019)
Paste: The 25 Best Board Games of the 2010s (10/31/19)
NPR's Here and Now: Wingspan Outsells All to Become Bestselling Board Game of the Year (10/30/19)
Bird Watching Magazine: New board game Wingspan is a game changer (7/18/19)
Nature: A bird-based game takes wing (5/14/19)
The Guardian: The board games turning science into playtime (4/20/19)
Science magazine: When birding meets board games, everyone wins (4/1/19)
Geek and Sundry: Bird and Gaming Enthusiasts Take Flight in Wingspan (3/18/19)
BeBold Games: Wingspan Is Important (3/17/19)
New York Times: She Invented a Board Game With Scientific Integrity. It’s Taking Off. (3/11/19)
Times of London: Birdwatching game Wingspan flies off the shelves (3/14/19)
Jeux.com (Mar 13 2019)
Gaming Trend: Crazy Eights on Wingspan (3/11/19)
Art in Boardgames #44 (2/26/19)
Tabletop Gaming Magazine: A Bird In the Hand (January 2019)
Audubon: Birds Star In One of This Year's Hottest Board Games (January 2019)
