Shuffle the Mushroom Card

Start mushroom Season

-Rules of Play- deck and deal 8 cards face up
Marker on Winter. in the middle of the table to
establish the Mushroom Field.

Each player receives: Place the Mushroom

Card deck face down.

1 of each Ecology Resource

2 Feast Tokens
1 Player Board
Order of Play
Roll to see who goes first, then play proceeds to the left.
The active player rolls the dice. After rolling, the active player can
take up to 2 actions. These actions
If a 7 is rolled, advance the Season Token can be different or the same.
to the next season. There are 2 types of actions:
For all other rolls, all players collect 1 Ecology
Resource according to the number rolled 1) Harvest a Mushroom Card.
(refer to the top of your Player Board). 2) Make a Trade.
 Harvest a Mushroom Card
To harvest a mushroom, pay the cost
in Ecology Resources, then collect the
indicated number of Feast Tokens and
place the Mushroom Card face up in your
basket of the corresponding season.

Mushrooms must be playable in the

current season. To verify that you are in
the correct season, check that the icon in
the upper right corner of the Mushroom
Card includes the season currently
indicated by the Season Token on the
Season Board. Cost
Collect

Season Token

Mushroom Cards are collected to a

maximum of 1 in winter, 2 in spring,
3 in summer, and 4 in fall (10 total).

Players place Mushroom Cards

stacked face up on top of each
other, under the baskets on
their Basket Board.
 - Poison Mushroom Cards -
Poison mushrooms are very
interesting to a mycologist,
but you must be careful
when storing them.
Poison mushrooms have a
grey background and have a
Poison Token symbol in the
lower left corner of the card.
Next to the Poison Token symbol
is an Ecology Resource symbol.
Whenever this Ecology Resource
is collected by the player with
this poison mushroom, they also
collect a Poison Token, which
is worth -2 points at the end of
the game. You cannot get rid of
Poison Tokens, even if you trade
away your poison mushroom.
- Magic Mushroom Cards -
Magic mushrooms have a
purple background and have a
Magic symbol in the lower left
corner of the card.
After harvesting a magic
mushroom, collect a Magic
Mushroom Token. This token
can be used as ANY 1 Ecology
Resource or Feast Token.
- Stinkhorn Mushroom Cards -
Stinkhorn mushrooms smell
very bad, and can keep
other players from
exchanging their
mushrooms with yours.
Stinkhorn mushrooms have
a green background.
Another player cannot
take a mushroom from
a player that has a
stinkhorn mushroom on
top of any basket.
This mushroom forces
you to collect a Poison
Token when a Soil/Dung Make a Trade
resource is collected.
There are 6 types of trade available: Example of trades:
Trade ANY 3 Ecology Resources for your
choice of ANY 1 Ecology Resource.
Trade ANY 3 Ecology Resources
for 1 Feast Token.
Trade 1 Feast Token for 1 Ecology
Resource of your choice.
Trade 1 Feast Token to advance from the
current season to the next season.
Trade 1 Feast Token to deal out 4 new
Mushroom Cards into the field, replacing the top
or bottom row, and moving the replaced cards
to the bottom of the deck in any order.
Trade 2 Feast Tokens to exchange one of
your mushrooms with another player in the
current season (do not collect Feast Tokens).
NOTE: A mushroom cannot be traded if an
uncovered stinkhorn is on top of any the
recipient’s baskets, in any season.
 - Anatomy of a Card -
End of Game & Scoring
Point value for Species name The game ends when the first player
scoring at the end completely fills their basket with
of the game. 10 mushrooms: 1 in winter, 2 in spring,
3 in summer, and 4 in fall.

Players tally the points of each

Mushroom Card in their basket
Season indicator (point value is in the upper left
denotes the time corner of the card).
of year that this
mushroom grows. 1 additional point is given for each
Feast Token or Magic Mushroom
Winter Spring Token in a player’s possession at the
Common name end of the game.

2 points are deducted for each Poison

Token in a player’s possession
Fall Summer at the end of the game.

The player with the

highest score wins!

Edibility - Amount of Feast Amount and type of Ecology

Tokens earned when this Resources needed to harvest Note: Tokens in Mycology are
mushroom is harvested. this mushroom. unlimited. If you run out of a token,
use something else as a substitute.

Designed by Dr. James Scott

Components
6 Player Boards Artwork by Greg May
1 Season Board Produced by Bioprospectus Corp.
84 Mushroom Cards
140 Ecology Resources Game and product development by Quillsilver Studio
1 Mushroom Meeple
Classical illustrations modified from:
40 Feast Tokens
Giacomo Bresadola, Reginald Buller, Leon Dufour
35 Poison Tokens
Joseph Hooker, Jokob Lange, Alfred Moller
3 Magic Tokens Adolphe Millot, James Sowerby
2 Dice
1 Rulebook Developed in Toronto, Canada