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Wingspan: Fan-designed Bird Cards Game Review

Author’s Note: the game Wingspan has been covered in many reviews. This article assumes that you have a good (if basic) understanding of how the game works and how it is played. If you need a primer on the game, Meeple Mountain has you covered! You can check out Logan Giannini’s review of Wingspan, or Mark Iradian’s review of Wingspan, or Tom Franklin’s review of Wingspan Digital;  or perhaps my review of Wingspan: Asia (the stand-alone, two-player implementation).

Introduction

On 25 October 2025, I held a game day at my house. My wife and four of our friends got together to play games starting at about 8:00 am and going on until well after 9:00 pm. (with snacks and lunch in there). The first game played was New York 1901, a four-player game because two of our friends had not arrived yet (they had a drive of several hours to get to us). Once the group of six was together, we played a game of Cascadia with the Landmarks expansion (a wonderful experience). It was as we were finishing up that game that the doorbell rang and the package I had been expecting to arrive that day was dropped off in front of my door.

That package was from Stonemaier Games. In it…

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