•Phoenix Farm•
Frequent Questions
Questions About: The Game Setup
Why is the Farm Card Double Sided?
One side features locks on the 2nd and 3rd coop/tool slots, while the other does not.
This leaves the rule as optional, and helps keep the game easier/faster for a younger audience!
Questions About: Farming Mechanics
Can you Use Multiple tools at the same time?
• No •
When using “Dice to Farm” you are using x1 Tool to Farm.
Reminder: This action takes up x1 Phase of a Player’s Turn (Morning or Evening)
When using a Firefly Jar to attain double or triple dice for your farming:
Roll multiple dice each time that you farm, but still only apply the results to x1 Tool / Phoenix.
Does "Cradling an Elder" Take the whole turn?
• Yes •
When “Resting an Elder Back to Ash” skip the whole turn (Morning & Evening)
No other actions can be made during a turn like this! No Shopping, No Farming, No Nothing!
Can you "Rest" with multiple Elders at the same time?
• Yes! •
This is one of the most important power-plays in the game!
If you have hatched twins, or have somehow managed to get three Elder Phoenixes:
All of these birds can Return to Ash simultaneously during a turn skip!
Reminder! This gives you:
multiple gold cubes & a bigger permanent discount of feathers on the cost of gold till end of game!
Questions About: The Shop
Is there a limit to how much I can purchase?
• Sort Of? •
During any visit to the shop, a player may purchase as much as they can afford.
This means:
Any number of: Firefly Jars, Farm Upgrades, Tools, or Gold Coins…
(so long as you have the feathers to spend of course!)
Can Gold eventually Cost: 0 Feathers?
• No •
At the start of game, each piece of gold costs: x6 feathers.
For each time a player returns an elder to ash, that player gets a x1 feather discount forever…
But that discount can only go as low as x1 feather for gold.
(also, the game usually ends before this can happen).
Questions About: Firefly Jars
Can I purchase more than one Firefly Jar?
• Yes •
But: each jar takes up x1 Tool Slot & you must have free space to take them.
•Reminder•
Since shopping only happens in the morning, you cannot take firefly jars in the second half of a turn.
If I have two jars when I Forage, do I flip Both?
• No •
When foraging, only one jar may be flipped over per turn.
This concept is also true for Using Firefly Jars: Only once per turn.
Does returning a jar to the shop count as "Shopping"?
• No •
Returning a jar to the shop is a free action.
If done at the beginning of the turn, you still have both a Morning & Evening Phase as normal.
Questions About: Scoring the Game
How Does the Feather Bonus Work?
As you play Phoenix Farm, the cost of Gold becomes different for each player.
When players cradle an elder, gold cost drops for that player by x1 Phoenix Feather each time.
(This discount remains until the end of the game).
As a result, Gold cost dwindles from: 6, to 5, to 4, to 3, to 2, to 1. (gold cannot cost less than 1 feather).
When the game ends, each player earns a bonus point for each piece of gold they could afford with their remaining feathers at the end of the game (even if no gold remains).
So, in example, lets assume a player has:
x2 Cradled Phoenixes (Gold costs: x4 feathers now), and
8 feathers left at the end of game.
This player nets: +2 bonus points.
Here is an equation to help make sense of this:
[feather total] ÷ (6 – [gold cubes]) = Feather Bonus
• Note •
Games can end in a fractional score.
Is there a Tie Breaker?
• Yes •
If after the feather bonus has been applied there is still a tie,
the player with the most Phoenixes / Farm Upgrades wins.
In some extremely rare cases this will still not break a tie…
In this case the game genuinely ends in a tie.