Wingspan Oceania Expansion - PPI Series

WINGSPAN OCEANIA EXPANSION

PINK POST-IT Series (games from my shelf of shame)

 

About game:

Wingspan Oceania Expansion is created by Elizabeth Hargrave and published by Stonemaier Games.

This expansion to Wingspan adds some new mechanisms and food sources.  Bring on the nectar!  These new pink goodies have required new dice and serve as a wild food, of sorts.  The science behind this game, as always, is amazing!  Elizabeth Hargrave has taken so much time and effort to make this as scientifically accurate of a game as possible- which has endured it to those of us science nerds that love birding, too.  I really believe it's one of the most amazing crossover games.  I have known a few birders that have started playing board games because of this game!  New bird cards, nectar as food, and a new scoring category that involves nectar are all parts of this game that have been added to the base game.

Review:

When you take something sweet like Wingspan and add nectar to it, only great things can happen!!! More amazing birds are included in this expansion with some new powers that are thematically well thought out.  I loved the new additions and I think I will continue to play with them on future games.  It seemed too easy to get wild food- but I think there was some balance to it that may have come from not being able to carry the wild food over from round to round.  It was so much fun!  And, of course, I'm a sucker for more birds.  And the art!  Just amazing! Score: A-

Deep Thoughts:

As promised, deep thoughts are at the END of the post.  

Most people have an order of things when it comes to Wingspan.  Were you a birder that was introduced to the amazing art of Wingspan and gave it a try after finding it in a Birds Unlimited or on the Audubon Society webpage?  Or, were you a gamer that went after a Spiel des Jahres winner and ended up getting interested in learning more about birds?  That all of a sudden started noticing the birds in your backyard and grew to start identifying them and look forward to their visits?  It seems as if many people fall into one of those two camps.  I started out a birder and then, after playing some other games and seeing Wingspan, knew I NEEDED to have this game. 

Do you remember what game it was that just clicked with you and was such an amazing experience that you were hungry for more?  Thinking about it at work?  Plotting your next strategy?  This was that game for me.  I've loved it since my first play and I still love getting it out to play.  It's the game that I don't have to beg my husband to play with me.  I've been responsible for several people, after playing my copy, running out to purchase this game.  Some board games will never leave your collection and you have to have it ALL.  This is that game for me.  They could come out with 10 more expansions, and I will have to have it all.  More birds!  More food!!  

I actually have thought about getting the upgraded food bits, but I'm waiting until one of them just speak to me.  I keep going back and forth- but one of these days I will settle on something!

I can't wait to see what else Elizabeth Hargrave has up her sleeve (I've heard rumors about MUSHROOMS!!!!) and can't wait to share one of her other games (Mariposas) here soon, as it's also a pink post-it game that needs to hit the table soon.  

Be looking for more of my PPI games.  I have a large number that sit on my shelf of shame that are begging to get played!