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With poisonous mushrooms wielding their wrath and a hand-size limit to manage, card selection is a tricky proposition at every turn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing each turn, one card from the forest moves into a decay pile that is available for only a short time. The Day Deck then refills the forest from the back, creating the effect of a walk in the woods in which some strategic morsels are collected, some are passed by, and others lay ahead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAges: 10+\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49163979915561,"sku":null,"price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/Screenshot2025-07-19101442.jpg?v=1752916591"},{"product_id":"undergrove","title":"Undergrove","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor over 300 million years, trees have traded nutrients with fungi in a vast underground network. Scientists continue to make new discoveries about this hidden world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUndergrove\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, you are a towering evergreen with an ancient symbiotic connection to the fungi in your forest. As new mushrooms appear, your options expand for converting nutrients and helping your seedlings. Using cube conversion, tile placement, area control, and a tiny bit of engine building, you’ll need to claim the most advantageous locations and optimize your actions to leave the best legacy in the forest. The player with the greatest number of successful seedlings, wins!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e● Build a shared forest containing mushrooms with diverse abilities.\u003cbr\u003e● Trade with the mushrooms to get resources based on the partnerships you’ve made.\u003cbr\u003e● Place your seedings in the most advantageous positions to score the most points.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInspired by real mycorrhizal trading networks. 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Corn provides a lattice for beans to climb, the beans bring nitrogen from the air into the soil, and the squash provides a natural mulch ground cover to reduce weeds and keep pests away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the game, you have your own player sheet with multiple areas: the garden, which is divided into six numbered zones, each containing the three crop types; the apiary; compost; perennials; goods; fruit; and the shed, which is filled with tools that have special abilities. All the crops, fruits, flowers, and hives are represented by tracks that you will mark off as you acquire these items. Many of the tracks are interconnected with other elements in the game, giving you bonuses along the way. A common feature of these tracks are circles that represent a harvest, which generates goods; get enough goods, and you unlock bonus actions. Advancing on all of these tracks offers various amounts of points, advancements, and bonuses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe game lasts eight rounds. Each round, roll dice based on the number of players, group them by number, then place them on an action space of the circular action wheel, starting with the current position of the farmer; the farmer moves each round, which means that dice showing 1s, 2s, etc. will end up on different spaces each round. Once the dice have been placed, each player drafts one die and uses it as described below. Once everyone has drafted a die, all players get to use the lowest-valued die remaining on the action wheel. 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