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Wingspan 2nd Edition

The verdict

Attract birds to your wildlife preserve, chain their powers into an engine, and score across four rounds: 1–5 players, ages 14 and up, 40–70 minutes, with 170 bird cards, food tokens, egg miniatures, custom dice, and a birdfeeder dice tower. A solo Automa mode is included, so it plays genuinely well alone, not just with a group.

Wingspan 2nd Edition — about $65 list (frequently $39–$55 on sale) · ≈4.8/5 from ~13,000–16,600 Amazon reviews · the bird-collection engine-builder with the best components in the hobby — and the one where the expansions are not the game.

Specs

• 1–5 players, ages 14+, 40–70 minutes
• 170 bird cards; solo Automa mode included
• Birdfeeder dice tower, food tokens, egg miniatures
• Expansions require this base game
• Swift-Start Pack is the same game with a faster teach

Blind details

For a blind shopper, confirm '2nd Edition / Base Game' and 1–5 players before ordering: the European, Oceania, and Asia expansions all require this base game and are frequently confused with it in titles. Listen for solo-play reviews if buying for one person, and for component-quality praise — the eggs, the dice tower, the cards — because that tactile quality is the gift case.

Honest caveats: heavy on card text and visual tableau, so this is a sighted-table game, and the Swift-Start Pack version is the same game with a faster teach, not a different game. The current Amazon price was not cleanly pinned in our research — list $65, sale prices $39–$55 — so confirm at checkout. As of October 2026 the rating was about 4.8 stars.

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Last reviewed: October 2026.