Mounting Edition

In development (rules may change)

Mount birds onto other cards to double an effect, force a play, or make a card reusable.

This edition is still being designed. Cards and rules on this page may change.

Where to play
Available in the online game for testing; not finished.
Rules
The core rules and interrupt rules, plus the notes below.
Winning
Most points wins: Innocent Chick 1, Perfect Chicks 2, Flamingo Show 1 per 2 face-up cards you hold. A Fun Duck doubles the points of the card it is mounted on. Tie: the player with the most cards in hand wins; if still tied, they are joint winners.
Special card
Rocking Mockingbird: Always face-up. While anyone holds one, nobody can play interrupt cards. At the end of your turn you must discard a card (it may be the Mockingbird itself).
Deck size
56 cards

Card list

CardTypeCopiesEffect
Innocent Chick Score card 10 Worth 1 point at the end of the game. In the Innocent Edition, the player with the most Innocent Chicks wins.
Perfect Chicks Score card 3 Worth 2 points at the end of the game.
Flamingo Show Score card 1 Worth 1 point for every 2 face-up (visible) cards you hold at the end of the game.
Flocking Bustard Attack card 8 If you hold the fewest cards, discard 2 cards from your opponents’ hands; otherwise discard 1. You choose which opponents lose them.
Generous Pelican Action card 5 Give 1 card from your hand to another player (a mount on it travels with it), or remove a mount from any card and return it to that card’s owner.
Greater Adjutant Action card 1 Take 1 card from the top 10 of the discard pile and add it to your hand.
Distracting Booby Interrupt card 5 Cancel the card another player has just played: an action, an attack, or another interrupt card.
Belling Bellbird Interrupt card 1 Cancel any attack or action card. Then take the Bellbird back into your hand.
Rocking Mockingbird Special card 2 Always face-up. While anyone holds one, nobody can play interrupt cards. At the end of your turn you must discard a card (it may be the Mockingbird itself).
Fun Duck Mount card 5 Mount it onto any card. When that card is played its effect is doubled; on a score or penalty card it doubles the points.
Interesting Chat Mount card 5 Mount it onto any card. That card becomes reusable: after it is played its owner keeps it to play again.
Tidy Hawfinch Mount card 2 Mount it onto any card. Whenever that card’s owner ends their turn, they draw an extra card.
Upset Parrotlet Mount card 6 Mount it onto any card. The owner must play that card when their turn ends. If it is an attack, it must target the owner themselves.
Clever Crow Mount card 2 Mount it onto any card. When that card’s owner ends their turn, the card is discarded, unless they played it first, in which case the Crow drops into their hand.

Not in this edition

Ample Great Tits, Raging Cockerel, Swift Bomber, Thieving Magpie, Fishing Frigate, Rampaging Cassowary, Flaming Galah, Eagle Eye, Owl Micromanager, Holy Dove, Golden Goose, Pleasant Pheasant, Superb Lyrebird Commander, Puffin Around, Ancient Kākāpō, Deep Shag, Vulture Shock, Parroting Macaw, Falcon Interceptor, Bouncing Penguin, Flashy Peacock, Booming Booby, Lovely Cockatoo, Imminent Booby.


Other editions: Innocent Edition · Pure Edition · Raging Edition