Every year in the realm of Wild, the first snow of the season brings new life to the land and the creatures who inhabit it. High atop the tallest peaks, the sun beats down on this fresh blanket of white, creating a rushing river that floods the magical valleys below. In River Wild, you must carve out the most harmonious land possible, plotting the river’s course to create protected valleys for the local wildlife to thrive. River Wild is a game of creating the most harmonious landscape. Each turn, you must play a card to extend your river, trying to create protected valleys for the local wildlife. Match wildlife with scoring goals in the valleys to get the most points possible! The goal is to extend your river such that it creates protected valleys for your wildlife. A protected valley is defined as a valley completely surrounded by river or mountains with no card gaps. Protected valleys are scored at the end of the game (valleys that are not protected do not score). How many points you score depends on what wildlife (dragons, jackalopes, toads and unicorns) and scoring goals are contained within each valley. You’ll want to play cards so that you have wildlife with complementary scoring goals that will score you the most points possible. Each turn, you must select one of the three cards in your selection row and add it to your land such that it extends your river. All cards must be played below the source card such that your river extends “downstream” (toward you). When choosing a card, you may look at and play either side of a card (note that one side is a mirror of the other side). After you add a river card to your land, draw a new card from the top of the deck and add it to your selection row so that there are once again three river cards to choose from. Continue playing until all of the cards have been added to your land or until you are unable to play any more cards.