Foret Mixte - Smoky Mountains (FR)

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*French version

Head into Great Smoky Mountains National Park with Foret Mixte - Smoky Mountains (FR), the third standalone game in the acclaimed series that already took players through the forests of central Europe and the wilds of Dartmoor. Known internationally as Forest Shuffle: Smoky Mountains, this French-language edition heads to North America, where water becomes the heart of your ecosystem: every tree you plant can now host a universal river tucked beneath its roots, drawing in the species that depend on it. Otters, herons, eagles and muskrats share the riverbank with quieter dwellers, while the black bear and bobcat remind you that the forest teems with life at every level. As in the rest of the series, each card you play is either a tree or two dwellers split in half (top/bottom or left/right): it's up to you to build, turn after turn, the most balanced ecosystem before the third winter card ends the game.

You'll likely love Foret Mixte - Smoky Mountains if you already enjoyed building your tableau in the Foret Mixte series, or if you're after a smooth hand management game that's quick to teach but rich in decisions. The rules stay familiar from one box to the next, but the new River and Cave cards refresh the possible combinations and push you to rethink your usual strategies.

This new installment builds on a series with real credentials: the original Foret Mixte won the Deutscher Spiele Preis, Germany's biggest community-voted board game award, and made the recommendation list for the prestigious Kennerspiel des Jahres. Foret Mixte - Smoky Mountains is a standalone game: it doesn't require the original box and can't be combined with it or with its expansions, making it a great entry point into the series. The box also belongs to the publisher's Greenline collection, made without plastic on FSC-certified paper, a fitting touch for a game that celebrates natural ecosystems.

The game is designed by Kosch, whose debut with Foret Mixte set the stage for this North American follow-up, with the same vivid artwork from Toni Llobet and Judit Piella, who bring every animal and plant species to life on the cards.

BOX CONTENTS
180 cards (56 Tree cards, 58 top/bottom split cards, 49 left/right split cards, 3 Winter cards, 9 River Terrain cards, 5 Cave cards)
1 Clearing board
1 score pad
1 rulebook

Number of players: 2 to 5
Playtime: 60 minutes
Age: 10+