Learn Carl von Linné

Learn the game in 5 short steps. Everything links to the full rules.

Choose a research direction

You have fifteen instrument placements over five rounds, so focus on objectives that reinforce each other. Look at the three university scoring tiles and the four public achievements, then decide whether your first engine will center on samples and books, letters, gardens or voyages.

Explore for samples and sketches

Move along the Scandinavian map to visit a sample location. Its first-visit bonus is claimed once; then take that bonus again or pay containers to collect its sample. Sketch locations give a sketch plus their location reward. Samples fill your library and sketches support publishing.

Turn samples into knowledge

Move your researcher through the library. Each move can grant the globe reward and uncover several adjacent sample corners. Record knowledge in the matching notebook spaces; you can hold only two of each phylum. Research is how you meet a book’s knowledge cost.

Publish and build income

After your action, pay a book’s knowledge and sketch requirements to publish it. A matching sketch triggers its effect; a mismatched one is face-down. Consider paying for the appendix at the same time. Pair a published book with a completed voyage to collect its recurring destination income.

Watch shared scoring and the end

Use the glasses, magnifier and microscope for different action strengths and bonuses. Claim achievements before opponents, advance university tracks toward their assigned scoring goals, and keep an eye on garden majorities. After five rounds, score fulfilled exotic samples, research, gardens, letter sets, lectures and leftovers; highest score wins.