How to Play Root

It’s time to take down the Marquise de Cat and her nefarious plans to seize the Great Woodland! That’s right, it’s time to play ROOT by Leder Games! Becca Scott takes you through the gameplay for 2-4 players, teaches you how to strengthen your resources and introduces you to all those cute adorable woodland critters!

Tabletop games are super fun, but learning the complicated directions and rules can be a challenge. Becca Scott is your game tutor, explaining the game mechanics in an easy to follow way, so you can get to playing the games faster.

#HowToPlay

[Zuri]

This is my favorite board game, and I'm super impressed with how well they were able to explain the basic rules in such a short yet entertaining video.

[BajkonurBobby]

Such a good basic explanation. People complicate it like you wouldn't believe. Tried to watch RTFM's explanation and, while very nice, the way they present it I don't know how they expect people to follow who haven't played the game/games before. Plus it was half an hour long! This, is perfect! Thanks!

[chuckm]

Warning, bizarre comments below, from people who expect a five minute overview to be the same as a complete explication of every rule in the game.

[Ping]

Have to admit I clicked on this video expecting a laugh. Trying to explain how to play root in under seven minutes seemed impossible. Yes she did not go into to much depth for each faction, she did a pretty good job explaining them even showing all of the backs of the factions to give things like the relative complexity which I have not seen in any other how to play for Root. All and all this video does a fairly decent job explaining everything especially when you consider it is almost a third of the time of most other how to plays for root.

[Shatoswolfdemon]

Saw on steam so decided to look it up expecting it to be a cute easy to understand game. Will have to rewatch later when not dead tired to understand! lol

[jerickarceo]

We're trying to learn this at the moment. Remember in the show friends, when Joey was trying to teach Ross and Chandler the game "bamboozle"? That's what this game feels like. Lol

[scottylovesthings]

You guys are killing it in game selection lately!

[michaelerickson]

Thank you for ACTUALLY EXPLAINING THE GAME.

[joehuiras]

I could listen to Becca talk about Root all year

[yankeejer]

Great supplementary instructional video but not nearly clear enough to use before playing the first time.

[SuperPhoenixFrog]

6:08 Looking back on this, why are the player boards so bent? This is a great game though

[Rulies]

The music made me feel like I was at Hogwarts.

[RidenXS]

1:25 the sprites need to be revised. There's no bird to represent the 1-2 player game.

[Phelix]

Can I just say that swipe to add the item tokens looked amazing! I even know how you did it, but it's still awesome!

[zxccxz]

You did a very nice job explaining. Can you please do EVERDELL Digital?

[AprendaQualquerCoisa]

this is the best explanation for root by far! Well played

[mamad]

Hello i have a question in your idea this is a good game or Twilight Struggle

[MJ]

Looking forward to seeing you play this one.  Also....trash panda needs love too!  haha

[gustavovassa]

The cutest version of the Colombian Civil War ever. Marque=Government, Eyrie=FARC, Alliance=Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, Vagabond=Medellin Cartel.

[visirion]

I can't find the game the game play through... Is it not up yet?