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MONARCH MIGRATION:
The Journey Of A Lifetime.
Downloadable Game Kit and Online Card Generator
No Butterfly Left Behind Download Edition:
Number of Players: Up to 6.Number of turns: No limit.
GOAL: Try to get from JAN (January) start point to the DEC (December) sanctuary in as few turns as possible.
Dice Roll & Card Draw.
Use the online dice roll / card generator on this page to guide play actions.
Monarch Migration Roll / Draw Generator
OPTION: Use a standard 6-face dice with the Roll / Draw Table to play analog and screen-free.
See: Roll / Draw Table. (Note: you may vary the mix of cards to experiment with various levels of difficulty.)
These instructions use the terms "Dice Roll" and "Card Draw" as synonymous.
Downloadable Files.
You may download and print the images on this page for personal and educational use.
Print out and mark up, the Journey Mapper worksheet to use as a game board and to track player movements for each turn: use crayons, markers, stickers, whatever you like. Make it fabulous. Printable tokens also available.
MONARCH MIGRATION:
No Butterfly Left Behind
Game Play Instructions
Prepare the game board by placing (or marking) one token on each cell in the JAN (January) row of the printed Journey Mapper.
The first Player to Roll a 6 gets to choose their token position. Repeat this process until all players are assigned a starting cell.
Taking turns. Each player, starting with Player 1, rolls to determine their move action.
Note that gameplay proceeds from left to right starting with the first player on the left, regardless of order of initial token selection.
Based on Roll/Draw result, you might migrate to the next month/range line, or you might go back to the previous month/range line, or roll again, or stay where you are.
Tokens move from one row of cells to the next adjacent row, either forward or back, based on the roll result.
Note: If, a player’s token is on the JAN range and a Roll returns "Go Back," then the token remains where it is and play passes to the next player (going from left to right on the Journey Mapper Worksheet).
If a token is on the JAN range line and the result of the draw is "Go Back & Roll Again," the token remains where it is and the player rolls again.
A token MUST move IF there is an open cell to land in.
IF there are NO open cells in an adjacent row, stay where you are; the turn passes to the next player.
Use physical tokens if desired, along with marking the printed Journey Mapper worksheet.
The Game is complete when the last token in play reaches the DEC range sanctuary.
The goal of No Butterfly Left Behind is for all the Butterflies to reach the sanctuary in the least number of moves.
WHAT IF you modify the game board setup with Health resources and Hazards?
Try your own variations.
Let these tokens repesent the following:
Flower = Health
If you land on a cell with a Flower then Roll Again.
Skull & Crossbones = Hazard
You cannot land on a cell with a Hazard.
Continental Divide. Let the brown hexagons, in the following map, represent mountains that the Butterflies cannot land on or cross.
