How to play Fungi, a fantastic little foraging game for 2 players.
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The aim of the game
In Fungi you’ll venture into the forest, collecting sets of mushrooms to cook for flavour points.
To set up
- Remove 2 pan cards from the forest deck, shuffle the rest and put them face down in a draw pile.
- Reveal 8 cards in a row between each player to form the forest and put the shoe card below the furthest 2.
- Shuffle the night cards and place them beside the draw pile, alongside the stick cards.
- Give each player 1 of the pan cards you removed and 3 forest cards form the draw pile to form their hand.
- If you draw a basket, place it in front of you and draw another card.
- If you get a moon, discard it and draw a card from the night pile.
- If you draw a fly agaric discard it but don’t draw a replacement.
To play the game
Whoever last ate mushrooms goes first.
On your turn you can perform 1 of 5 actions:
Option 1 is to take a card from the forest choosing either card above the shoes.
If you want a card deeper in the woods, you’ll need to spend a stick, one for each card along.
- If you take a mushroom, pan or ingredient, put it in your hand.
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If you take a basket or fly agaric, put it in front of you. Cards in front of you do not count towards your hand limit.
Your hand limit is 8 cards, every basket you have increases this by 2.
Fly agaric reduces your hand limit to 4, +2 for every basket. Discard cards until you reach this limit. At the end of your next turn, Fly agaric is discarded and your 8 card limit returns.
- If you take a moon card, discard it and draw a card from the night pile. Night cards count as 2 mushrooms, but only take up 1 space in your hand.
Option 2 is to take all of the cards from the decay pile. This can only be done from turn 2 onwards and only if it doesn't take you over your hand limit, once you've accounted for any baskets, moons and Fly agaric in it.
Option 3 is to cook 3 or more identical mushrooms, by placing them from your hand into an empty pan in front of you.
You can only cook one type of mushroom per turn. Once you’ve used a pan, it can’t be used again.
The pan symbol on a mushroom shows how many points it’s worth once cooked.
When cooking 4 or more of the same mushroom you can add a butter card from your hand to the pan, or a cider if you cook 5 or more.
You can add 2 butter to 8 or more mushrooms, a butter and cider to 9 or more mushrooms or 2 cider to 10 mushrooms.
Each butter scores you 3 points and each cider scores you 5.
You can’t add ingredients to already cooked mushrooms.
Option 4 is to sell 2 or more of the same mushroom, by placing them from your hand to the discard pile and taking the number of sticks relative to the icon on each card you sell.
Put sticks face up in front of you. You can only sell 1 type of mushroom each turn.
When cooking or selling, remember, night cards count as double.
The final option is to lay a pan from your hand in front of you, so it can be used for cooking on future turns.
After your turn, put the card furthest from the draw pile into the decay pile at the end of the forest.
If the decay pile ever exceeds 4 cards, put them into the discard pile and start a new decay pile with the 5th card. Then, slide all of the forest cards along towards the shoes and fill the spaces with new cards, back up to 8.
If the draw pile runs dry, don’t replenish it.
Game end and scoring
The game ends immediately when the last card is taken from the forest.
Add up the points for all the mushrooms and ingredients you cooked. Remember night cards are worth double.
Whoever has the most points wins!
That’s Fungi, a magnificent little card game about mushrooms.
Enjoy!