When the sun has gone all the way around the board three times, the game ends – 18 rounds in total.Īt first, you can only plant seeds of new trees near your existing trees, but as your trees get bigger, you can spread out more broadly, and that's where things get crunchy. But the good news is that the sun moves partially around the board every turn, so suddenly your shaded trees are in the sun, and others are in the dark. The bigger the tree, the longer the shadow it casts. The problem? If your tree is behind someone else's, the sun won't reach it, so you'll get less light points that turn. The sun's light beams in straight lines across the board from the token, and if your trees get touched by it, you get light points, which you can spent to plant more trees, or grow your existing ones. You'll also place the huge sun token along two sides of the board. At the start of the game, you'll place two small trees in spaces near the edge of the hexagonal board, and you'll have a bank of more small trees, medium trees and large trees ready for later in the game.
