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Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor

40 questions players ask about Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor. Pick one for the answer. See also the full rulebook.

Updated 2026-11-05.

  • Setup and Game Flow
  • A) Draw Two Cards
  • B) Play a Card and Check the Clearing
  • End of Game
  • Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor – ExmoorExpansion

Setup and Game Flow

  • Can Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor cards be mixed with the original Forest Shuffle?
  • What does 'stack' mean in the rules, for example on Brandt's Bat?
  • If a bonus gives me an extra turn, is the clearing emptied before that turn starts?

A) Draw Two Cards

  • When drawing two cards, can I look at the first before choosing where the second comes from?

B) Play a Card and Check the Clearing

  • Can effects take cards from the clearing before it is emptied at the end of my turn?
  • Can I play more than one Common Cuckoo on the same tree or shrub?
  • Can a Common Cuckoo be played on a tree or shrub whose other slots are already full?
  • Can a dragonfly go into a slot already occupied by another card when Water Soldiers is in play?
  • How do dragonflies stack with Water Soldiers, and does play order matter?
  • How many cards can go on a moor?
  • When Bog Asphodel puts a tree from my hand into my forest, does a card go to the clearing?
  • How many trees or shrubs can Bog Asphodel place from my hand?
  • In what order do things resolve when I play a card?

End of Game

  • When a Common Cuckoo sits on another bird, do both birds score?
  • Are cards in my cave part of my forest at end of game?
  • Do the symbols on a rivulet count for the rivulet's own scoring?
  • Do bats score if I have three different bat types?
  • If the third winter card is revealed while cards are being put in a cave, how many cards do I place?
  • Does Sessile Oak score for shrubs despite the appendix saying otherwise?

Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor – ExmoorExpansion

  • Can Exmoor cards be shuffled into the original Forest Shuffle?
  • If an Exmoor search card finds a match already in the clearing, do I draw from the deck?
  • If a bird search finds a bird that can't legally be placed, do I keep flipping?
  • If the clearing is full when an Exmoor search resolves, when is it emptied?
  • Can I pay for an Exmoor search card with a bird, then take that bird from the clearing free?
  • Where do cards flipped during an Exmoor search go?
  • Can I mix Exmoor's caves with Dartmoor's caves 1 to 5?
  • Does High Coastal Heath double the points a Meadow Pipit scores?
How are terrain cards such as moors played from hand?
  • What if I have 10 cards and can neither draw nor play?
  • Can I play a card from hand face-down as a universal moor?
  • If cave 1 gives me a universal moor, can I look at the drawn card and pick what to play?
  • Does Fountainhead's draw trigger when Fountainhead itself is played?
  • Does Elderberry's draw trigger when a plant enters my forest through another card's effect?
  • Do shrubs and mushrooms trigger when a card is placed rather than played?
  • What is the difference between playing and placing a card?
  • What does 'from your hand resp. from the clearing' mean on the put-a-card effect?
  • If the put-a-card effect is from the clearing and no matching card is there, can I use a matching card from hand?
  • What does the Dartmoor Badger allow for rabbits?
  • With a Dartmoor Badger out, can I play several rabbits in one turn?
  • Does a 'whenever you play a card with this icon' effect trigger on a split card when I play the side without it?