PINESENLARGEMENT

How to grow the biggest forest

• Plant a sapling: pick a card, click a soil tile. Costs 1 energy (◆).
• Merge = the whole game: plant a pine next to another of the same kind & size and they fuse into a bigger one. Chains cascade! Tiles that complete a merge glow gold.
• Or merge two matching cards in hand — click one, then its highlighted twin (costs 2).
• Hold (the pin on a card) keeps it for next week instead of discarding — up to 2.
• End Week and nature strikes. Each hazard has a pine that shrugs it off:
  • Frost — nips exposed saplings (T1). Jack ignores it.
  • Drought — kills isolated trees (no adjacent neighbor). Cluster your pines! Piñon holds on.
  • Beetle — blights your most-planted species. Stay diverse. Bristlecone resists it.
  • Wildfire — razes a whole column. Lodgepole survives the burn.
• Winter scores you on Canopy (total tree size, the pt on each card), a Biodiversity bonus for variety, and an Ancient bonus for a surviving Bristlecone. Biggest isn't always best!