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Goal

Sugar Gliders is a strategic foraging board game for 2–4 players designed by Néstor Romeral Andrés. Guide your sugar glider leaping through the tree canopy to collect fruit tiles. The player with the highest total fruit point value in their reserve at game end wins!

Components

Component	Icon	Value	Description
White Seed		1 point	Starting launchpad for gliders during setup (12 in standard, 9 in compact).
Yellow Seeds		2 points	Common nectar seed tile (12 in standard, 9 in compact).
Acorns		3 points	Nutrient acorn tile (12 in standard, 9 in compact).
Red Berries		4 points	Sweet berry tile (12 in standard, 9 in compact).
Purple Fruit		5 points	Premium large fruit tile (12 in standard; omitted in compact variant).
Tree Board	—	—	Hexagonal tree canopy grid with 61 spaces (37 spaces in the compact variant). The centre space is the special tree hollow nest.

Setup

• The centre nest space begins empty.
• All other tree canopy spaces are populated face-up with one random fruit tile each (60 tiles in standard, 36 in compact).
• In turn order, each player places their sugar glider on any available space containing a 1-point fruit tile . That tile rests beneath the glider as their initial jumping tile.

Your turn

On your turn, choose exactly one of two actions:

1. Jump

• Jump Distance:
  • If you have a tile underneath your glider: you must leap in a straight line along any of the 6 hex directions by exactly that tile's point value (no turning).
  • If you have no tile underneath your glider: you must spend and discard one tile from your reserve, jumping in a straight line equal to the spent tile's value. The spent reserve tile leaves the game.
• Collect takeoff tile: When jumping with a tile underneath you, pick it up and add it to your reserve as you leap.
• Landing:
  • Landing on a space with a fruit tile places that tile under your glider to dictate your next jump.
  • Landing on an empty space leaves you with no tile underneath for your next turn (requiring a reserve tile sacrifice to jump).
• Center nest space: A glider taking off from the centre nest space may spend any tile from their reserve to glide to any unoccupied space on the entire board (ignoring straight-line and distance rules).
• Restrictions: Gliders cannot jump off the board, nor pass through or land on another glider.

2. Enter Torpor

• Do not move your glider.
• If a fruit tile is underneath your glider, eat it: pick it up and add it to your personal reserve.
• On your next turn, you will have no tile underneath and must spend a reserve tile to jump, or enter torpor again.

End of the game and scoring

The game ends immediately when:

• All players take the Torpor action in succession without anyone jumping.
• All fruit tiles on the tree canopy have been gathered.

Final scoring

• Each player also collects the fruit tile their glider is currently resting upon into their reserve.
• Sum the values of all fruit tiles ( to ) in your reserve.
• The player with the highest total score wins! Ties share victory (no tie-breaker).

Variants (table options)

• Board Size & Variant (Option 100):
  • Automatic (compact for 2 players, full tree for 3–4) (default): 37-space compact board for 2 players; 61-space full tree for 3–4 players.
  • Standard (Full Tree): 61 spaces, 60 food tiles (values 1–5).
  • Compact Inner Tree (Short Variant): 37 spaces, 36 food tiles (values 1–4, all 5-point purple fruits and 3 of each other value removed).

Controls on BGA

• Setup: click an empty space with a 1-point fruit tile, then press Confirm placement (or Cancel).
• Jumping: click any highlighted destination space to stage your leap. Press Confirm jump (or Confirm: spend [N] VP from reserve), or press red Cancel.
• Center nest glide: click any unoccupied space on the tree, then select which fruit tile to spend from your reserve tray.
• Torpor: click the Enter torpor button (or Enter torpor (ends the game)).
• Tooltips: hover over the centre nest space, or over player panels (fruit under glider, torpor status, reserve breakdown).
• Preferences:
  • Confirm jump before moving (Preference 101, default: Automatic [touch screens only]; options: Always, Never).
  • Colour-blind support (Preference 102, default: Off): adds distinctive symbols to each player's glider.
  • Glider style (Preference 103, default: Original figure [wooden glider]; option: Classic drawing).