Description

Players are hunters trying to gather the largest number of animals. For each specific animal, the player(s) with the most cards of this animal earn as many points as they have cards of that type, while the others get nothing for this animal. The game is played in rounds and ends after the animal card deck is empty. During rounds, each player secretly chooses a hunting ground, then spends their boomerangs to determine which player is going to hunt first.

Gameplay

Begin of the round

Animal cards, which feature 1 animal and 2 hunting grounds, are added to the river until either: all land types are featured, or the deck runs out. If some animals haven't been hunted at the end of a round, they remain in the river for the next round. If the animal deck runs out, a last round is played with the remaining cards in the river.

Hunting ground selection

Each player secretly chooses a land token and places it face down in front of them. This allows players to hunt animals whose cards feature this land.

The hunt

In turn order, each player can either:

- A throw a boomerang by putting one of their boomerangs into the pot;

- B pass and collect all the boomerangs from the pot. They then place their land token face down on top of the land token stack.

The last remaining player, will be first to play next round.

When the second to last player has passed and collected boomerangs, it’s time to capture the animals.

The capture

The last player in the hunting phase reveals their land token from the top of the stack. They then add to their tableau all the cards from the river featuring the land indicated by the token.

Then, the owner of the next land token at the top of the stack (the second to last in the hunting phase) reveals their token and takes the corresponding cards from the river.

Repeat until the stack of land tokens is empty.

It is possible that players at the bottom of the land token stack get no cards at all.

When the deck of animal cards is empty, the game is over; proceed to scoring. Otherwise start a new round.

Scoring

The game ends when there are no animal cards to build a river at the start of a round.

If a player has the most cards featuring a given animal, they score one point for each of the cards they have featuring that animal. If multiple players are tied for that animal, they both score.

Also, each player scores one point for each group of 6 boomerangs they still hold.

The Player with the highest overall points, wins.

In the case of a tie in overall points, the player with most boomerangs wins.