Each season a great game is held to determine who will rule the kingdom on Squirrel Island. You are in this game. Your goal is to gather more nuts than the others, and the name of the game is The Nut Game! In The Nut Game, players takes turns using their stamina to play Squirrel- and Tool cards and take other actions. Each player builds up his or her own army of squirrels that helps them gather more nuts and secure their own win or their opponents demise. Players can also hide nuts to secure a boost in the scores for the end of the game. It's a game of one-upmanship that can suddenly turn on its head in an instant when one of the devastating event cards are drawn! Players draw cards from the same pile and when that pile is empty the game is over. Players count how many nuts they've collected, including their hidden ones, and the one who has gathered most nuts wins!