Meadow

The base game supports 1–4. Two/three players play six rounds with five path tokens each; four play eight rounds with four tokens each, omitting the question mark. Use the matching campfire board and blocked notches. Start the main board with W, S, and E cards, reserving N for halfway.

Normally start with four cards from one chosen row plus one N card. Choose rows in reverse starting order and refill after each selection. Choose a side of your starting ground card and take one road token. For a first game, the rulebook permits a specified random five-card deal instead.

On a turn, put one unused path token in a vacant main-board or campfire notch. On the main board, count its printed distance in its pointing direction, take that card, and refill immediately. Then optionally play one hand card. The question mark chooses any distance from one to four.

Ground cards extend left or right of existing grounds, with at most ten columns and their ground symbols always visible. Play observations by meeting visible requirements and covering the appropriate symbol/ground column. Covered observation symbols cease to count, but covered cards still score. Played cards cannot move.

For multiple observation requirements, have every required symbol visible before covering one applicable symbol. A slash means choose either requirement; arrows require adjacent columns. A ground requirement permits placement atop its ground column even if the top observation symbol differs, provided other requirements are satisfied.

Discard two other hand cards to ignore one missing requirement symbol, returning discards to their matching deck bottoms. Repeat if needed, but an observation must still have at least one requirement actually met. This cannot replace a road token or the landscape symbol needed to place a discovery.

Play landscapes horizontally in surroundings, spending one road token and meeting any additional symbols without consuming those symbols. A discovery covers an unused landscape’s symbol and requires any other visible symbols. Do not mix these surroundings cards into the meadow’s observation columns.

Campfire specials take any main-board card, gain two roads, look at three cards from an active deck and keep one, or play up to two hand cards. The first three do not allow a card play. A question mark copies any special. An unused bench allows one card play but does not qualify for goal claiming.

Claim goals only after placing in a campfire notch: both paired symbols must be visible and the reward space empty. Place at most one bonus per turn, in value order 2, 3, 4, before, during, or after the special. After all tokens are used, retrieve them, pass first player, and advance the round. At halfway, return the display to deck bottoms, replace S with N, and refill.

After the last round, score all played meadow/surroundings cards and campfire bonuses; hand cards and unused bonuses score nothing. Highest total wins, then most played discoveries, then shared victory. Solo lasts six rounds against Rover, who always starts and alternates blocking/drafting without a tableau or bonuses. Score Rover’s collected cards; match or exceed that total before consulting the solo rating.