The dealer then shuffles the 110 Bird cards and lays out 4 rows with three cards faceup at the center of the table a.

Our itinerary provides opportunities to see many of Cuba’s endemic species and subspecies, as listed below. The trip will also focus on the many Neotropical migrant species that migrate south to Cuba in the fall and are abundant in Cuba during the winter months (endemic species and endemic subspecies in italics): Playing birds from your hand into the central tableau is mandatory but players have a lot of choices of what and how to play, even with one major restriction: they always have to put down all cards of the same species they have in their hand. For example, if a player added the two Parrots to the left of this row, they would take the Owl and Flamingo: You take the first turn of the game. Take your turn as usual. In her turn, RobinBird draws for each row a card from the draw pile andThe game is won by the first player that manages to have gathered in their collection in front of them: If RobinBird would get more cards by adding the drawn card on the left side in the row, she prefers that.

So while CuBirds is really uncomplicated mechanically, strategically it gives players a bit to think about. At the same time, the decisions are not complicated enough to invoke analysis paralysis and hinder the flow of the game. For a short, light game, that is a perfect combination. Add to that quirky cubic artwork, and CuBirds makes a great little warm-up game ahead of a heavier longer one later in the night. If it is impossible to deal 8 cards to each player (even with the discard pile), the game ends immediately. In this case, the player with the most bird cards in their collection wins the game. Count the number of birds in your hand -- this tells you how many plays until you can trigger a new hand. A round ends when one of the players has no cards left in their hand. The remaining cards that players have in their hand go to the discard pile. The cards laid in rows at the center of the table remain in place. The player who ended the round becomes the new dealer. The player chooses a Bird from their hand and must play all the Birds of this species that they have in their hand.lays it on the right side. This means drawing 4 cards in total. If this would enclose Birds, RobinBird takes those in hand and completes the rows according to the normal rules. If the draw pile gets empty, shuffle all the cards from the discard pile to form a new draw pile. The new dealer is the first to play in this round. As soon as a player has no cards left in their hand, the current round ends. Other players have to place any cards that they have left in their hand into the discard pile. The cards laid in rows at the center of the table remain in place. All of the remaining cards are shuffled to form a facedown draw pile b. This draw pile is placed near to the center of the table, accessible to all players. The dealer gives 8 facedown Bird cards from the draw pile to each player: this is their starting hand.