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How to score Forest Shuffle
Forest Shuffle scoring happens once, when the third winter card appears. Go through your forest card by card: every tree, and every card on its top, bottom, left or right, scores what it says. Cards in your cave are 1 each. The highest total wins.
- 2 to 5 players
- About 40 to 60 minutes
- Ends at the third winter card
- Highest total wins
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This is the real Scorepad, live: Sam’s forest added on the keypad, trees first and the cave last. Anything that pays per card is worked out before it goes in.
Forest Shuffle
- BGG #150
- 40 to 60 min
A card game about growing a forest. You plant trees, then slip animals, plants and fungi in above, below and beside them. Almost every card pays for something else in your forest, so the final count is where the game is won.
Year, players, time and rank from BoardGameGeek.
How to play Forest Shuffle, in brief
In Forest Shuffle you plant trees and tuck animals, plants and fungi around them, then score your forest when the third winter card comes out.
- Build the deckSet the 3 winter cards into the last third of the deck, as the rules show, and deal everyone 6 cards.
- Draw 2, or play 1Take 2 cards from the deck or the clearing (the face-up cards in the middle), or play one by discarding as many others into the clearing as it costs.
- Grow your forestEvery card but a tree has two halves: slide it under a side of a tree so one half shows, and only that half counts. Some cards tuck cards into your cave.
- Stop at the third winter cardWhen it turns up, the game ends at once, even mid-turn. The highest total wins.
Every card pays for something.
Nothing is scored during play. At the end, each player scores their own forest, one card at a time. Card effects do not trigger during scoring; only the points count. These are the cards whose values come up most.
What the common cards score
| Card | Points |
|---|---|
| Birch | 1 |
| Douglas fir | 5 |
| BeechOnly if you have at least 4 beeches | 5 each |
| OakOnly if your forest has all 8 tree species | 10 each |
| Linden3 each if no forest has more lindens than yours | 1 or 3 |
| Silver fir2 for each card attached to it | Per card |
| Sycamore1 for each tree in your forest, saplings included | Per tree |
| Horse chestnuts, as a set1, 4, 9, 16, 25 or 36 for 1 to 6; 49 for 7 or more | Set |
| Different butterflies, as a set0, 3, 6, 12 or 20 for 1 to 5 kinds | Set |
| Each hareWorth the number of hares you have | Per hare |
| Fire salamanders5, 15 or 25 for 1 to 3 | Set |
| Each card in your cave | 1 |
- Stop at the third winter cardThe game ends the moment it is drawn, even in the middle of a turn.
- Score the treesEvery visible tree scores on its own terms: beeches score only when you have 4 or more, an oak needs all 8 tree species, a linden pays 3 only if no forest has more.
- Score the cards around themEach card on a tree’s top, bottom, left or right scores what it says. Many pay per something else (a red fox 2 per hare) or only on a condition (a chaffinch 5 only on a beech). Work each product out first.
- Count the sets and the caveButterflies, horse chestnuts and fire salamanders score as sets. Each card tucked into your cave is worth exactly 1.
- Add it upThe highest total wins. The sources we could open give no tiebreaker, so a tie stays a tie.
Sam’s martens win it: 105.
Three players, just as the third winter card turns up. Each tally runs trees first, then the cards around them, then the cave, and anything that pays per card is worked out before it goes on the keypad. This is the game on the Scorepad above.
| Player | Trees, cards around them, cave | Final |
|---|---|---|
| Sam | 3 silver firs, all four sides full (8 each), 2 birches, a Douglas fir; 2 tawny owls, 2 Eurasian jays; 2 beech martens at 5 per full tree (15 each), 3 badgers; a pond turtle, 2 fireflies; 7 cave cards from his raccoon24 + 2 + 5 + 10 + 6 + 30 + 6 + 5 + 10 + 7 | 105 |
| Mara | 3 Douglas firs, 4 beeches (5 each with 4), 2 birches; 2 chaffinches on beeches; 2 red foxes at 2 per hare (6 each); 3 hares at 3 each; 2 fire salamanders; 6 cave cards from her raccoon15 + 20 + 2 + 10 + 12 + 9 + 15 + 6 | 89 |
| You | 4 horse chestnuts as a set, 2 lindens (3 each, nobody has more), 2 sycamores with 8 trees (8 each); 3 different butterflies, a tawny owl; a wild boar and its squeaker; 2 hedgehogs at 2 per butterfly (6 each)16 + 6 + 16 + 6 + 5 + 10 + 1 + 12 | 72 |
Count the forest. Tabletales adds it up.
Tabletales is a scorepad and scrapbook for game night. In Forest Shuffle you count each forest card by card at the table. Type each player’s total, or type the parts as you count them: Tabletales adds it up, marks the winner and saves the game with the night.
- A forest on the keypadType each total, or type the parts the way you count them: trees, then the cards around them, then the cave. Tabletales adds it up for you.
- Products firstThe keypad adds and subtracts, nothing more, so two martens at 15 go in as 30, or as 15 + 15.
- The trophy finds the top totalLeave the game on Highest wins, where every new game starts, and the trophy goes to the biggest forest, shared if two tie.
- And the night is keptSave it with who played and a photo of every forest. Forest Shuffle gets its own page too: how often you play it and who holds the high score.
- Everyone who was there
- Photos from the table
- Forest Shuffle, with its scores
Common Forest Shuffle scoring mistakes
- Finishing the turn at the third winter cardThe game ends the moment the third winter card is drawn.
- Paying lindens 3 without the mostLindens are 1 each unless no other forest has more. A tie for most still pays 3.
- Scoring beeches with only 3 of themA beech is worth 5 only when you have at least 4.
- Valuing cave cards at their printed pointsEvery card in your cave is worth exactly 1.
Forest Shuffle scoring, answered
- How does scoring work in Forest Shuffle?
- Once the third winter card is drawn, each player scores their own forest card by card: every tree, and every card attached to a tree, scores what it says, and each card in the cave is worth 1. The highest total wins.
- When does Forest Shuffle end?
- The moment the third winter card is drawn, even in the middle of a turn. One winter card sits on top of the deck’s bottom third and the other two are shuffled into it, so winter begins two thirds of the way through and the game ends somewhere in that last third.
- How much are cave cards worth in Forest Shuffle?
- Exactly 1 point each, whatever is printed on them. In the base game, cards reach your cave through a brown bear or a raccoon.
Forest Shuffle score sheet
Print one for the table: trees, the cards on their tops, sides and bottoms, and the cave, for up to five players, with the final total. Our own design, free to copy.
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Card values come from Lookout’s Danish card appendix, matched to the English card names. Expansions such as Woodland Edge add new cards. Lookout gives 60 minutes for a game; BoardGameGeek gives 40 to 60. Rules checked on 19 October 2026 against Lookout Games’ card appendix, Lookout Games’ page and FAQ and Board Game Arena. Forest Shuffle is a trademark of Lookout Games. Tabletales is not affiliated with Lookout Games, and this score sheet is our own design.
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