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Posted by Dennis Clotting in 01 Jan 2022.

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“Hmmm..do I cover this fox and then use 2 plants and an insect? But this gold card needs 3 foxes… Do I even want to play this card this way or would I rather play it again?” Questions about questions. And here’s another: Does ‘Codex Naturalis,’ a cute little mushroom and flower game, an educational trip in nature or an exhausting stroll through wind and weather that never seems to end?

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Curvy path with mushrooms and foxes

In “Codex Naturalis” 2-4 players try to cleverly place their cards to complete missions and collect the most victory points.

There are three different types of cards:

resource cards, Showing plants, mushrooms, foxes and insects as primary sources. These bring few victory points. In addition, they rarely show a feather, scroll, or inkjet as ‘extended’ resources

Goldkarten, You have the requirements to be able to run it. For this they bring you more victory points.

arrange the cards, Completing it earns you victory points (even more than once). Two claim cards are valid for all players, and they all have their own order card.

Gold cards and cards can be used on both sides and their symbols are either in the middle of the card (then always applied) or in the corners (then applied as long as they are visible).

The resources and gold cards are placed in two separate groups. In addition, two cards are revealed. Two order cards are also available to the public. Players receive a start card, two resource cards, and a gold card, receive two opposite mission cards and choose one of them. Then you can go.

A mobile person must do two things:

play card: One of the three cards that are present must be placed next to the cards already shown (or to the starting card in the first round). It should cover one of the available corners. It can also cover the corners of several cards, but not several corners of a card. There are also cards with less than four free corners. Filled corners may be placed over free corners, and nothing may be placed over filled corners. The instructions show in a simple graphic what is allowed and what is not. Conditions for gold cards should be fulfilled only at the moment the card is played, after which the resources can be “rebuilded” again.

Take a card: The player takes one of the four resources or gold cards offered or draws the top card from one of the two groups.

Then the next person’s turn comes. If one person reaches 20 points or more (or both decks of cards are empty), the round is played to the end after which everyone has another turn to work. Then the points of the order cards are calculated. Points already earned using individual cards are added together. Whoever has the most winning points wins.

Tags: 2-4 people, nature, placement game, 25 minutes, family game