How to Play Cascadia | Complete Game Rules in 8.5 Minutes

Learn to play Cascadia, a beautiful tile-laying game from Flatout Games and Alderac Entertainment! This video teaches everything you need to know to setup, play, and score your first game of Cascadia.

*** Rule clarification ***
At 5:00. Overpopulation happens automatically as many times as it's needed if there are 4 matching animals, but a player can only choose to replace 3 matching animals for free once per turn. After that, you'll need to spend a nature token if you want to replace more.

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction / overview
0:21 Scoring
0:42 Wildlife scoring
1:11 Bears
1:25 Elk
1:49 Salmon
2:11 Hawks
2:22 Foxes
2:59 Habitat scoring
3:24 Bonus points
3:55 Nature token scoring
4:17 Building your environment
4:40 Overpopulation
5:02 Playing habitat and wildlife
5:36 Keystone tiles and nature tokens
6:20 Ending your turn
6:38 End of the game
6:47 One-player game adjustments
9:19 Setup
8:14 Conclusion

[allisonl]

Explaining the scoring first really helped me understand everything that followed. Great job, thank you!

[billturner]

Excellent instruction video! I like how you explain the scoring first, since that's often what's needed to explain to other players so they know what to look for and play towards. Thanks!

[AndrewRuggiero]

This was one of the best explanation videos I’ve seen! Thanks!

[SbenjiB]

I like how you went backwards. You explained scoring first (the last step in a game), and then ended with setup (the firsts step in the game), but it made it so much more clear. Very well explained

[tianischifano]

The order that you explained this game made it so much more understandable!!!! Thank you thank you!

[nathaniel]

Kudos for a great video. I feel that what makes rules videos great or less so, is the order in which the information is given (as long as the information itself is clear). In this video the order felt very organic and well thought out. Please do keep up the good work, it saves so much time when learning new games. Thanks!

[treyjones]

Thanks for the informative and clear instructions. I learn best by watching these types of videos so thank you! Now off to play for game night with my wife!

[danieltholejr]

Nicely done video! :) The audio & video were clear and easy to follow. I'll use what I learned here to teach the game at one of our upcoming game nights. Question - What would you say is the optimal number of players?

[cathaleenowensby]

Definitely agree with everyone else, explaining the scoring first was genius! Looking forward to getting this to the table now.

[Livrenna]

I love visual explaining with examples, great job!!

[Pugulator]

Really fantastic video. GREAT call explaining the scoring first.

[gm-cddman]

Just picked this up and this video made learning how to play quick and easy. Thanks!

[Altariaba]

This really made it click for me!! Thanks so much for explaining it all, super clear and easy to follow along.

[rolfvanderbijl]

Tomorrow going to try and play Cascadia with my girlfriend and this video is really going to help. You make it really comprehensible and way less daunting. Looking forward to tomorrow.

[jamessherman]

Thanks for your tutorial. I’ll agree with other comments that starting with the scoring first, set the stage for how to play. I’ll need to remember that when teaching others or have them watch this video😊. Your explanation of the scoring was more thorough than some other videos I’ve seen. I got Cascadia + Landmarks as a bundle as I’m often seeking a gateway game that all skill levels will enjoy at a higher player count.

[Mrshawnl]

Great order of explanation and concise! Subbed!

[MJ-xshk]

This video explained things so clearly and well and in a way that made sense to my brain. Thank you!

[trainer_mattm]

You had this video and a Sushi Go vid, thank you so much! I hope you keep your channel going!

[abhishekmondal]

First Question
Hi, my question is on the level 12 of ACHIEVEMENT SCENARIO that can be played in solo mode.
In this scenario the Roosevelt elk token cannot be placed on forest habitat, does it means that the Roosevelt elk cannot be placed on the tiles that represents two types of habitat like forest and Prairies or forest and mountain ??

Or
It cannot be placed only on those tiles that represents the single forest habitat ??

2nd Question:-
During a particular turn, I had used a Nature token to wipe all the wildlife token, when I took out the next set of wildlife, three fox token came out, can I again replace those three fox tokens as mentioned in the rule book ??
Before I replace those three fox token, shall I put back all those wildlife token into the bag that I had wiped out using the nature token ??

[ausboy]

Thank you but next time don’t touch the Lense, love from Austria