Timberland
BGG rank
BGG #20,736
BGG rating
6.4

Timberland

1989

Rules assistance for Timberland

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 2–4 players
  • 30 min
  • 8+
  • Complexity 2.0/5

Rules assistant for Timberland

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Answers come from the official rulebook, with the page to check.

Timberland is a board game released in 1989 for 2–4 players, 30 minutes per game, and ages 8 and up. It was designed by Klaus Teuber and its main mechanics are Hand Management and Auction / Bidding.

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About the game

Timberland is a German family game about woodland management in the old days. Play is card driven according to the four seasons; fruit falls from the trees in the Autumn; in Winter, wild boar eat the fruit and run through the woods depositing seeds as they go; in the Spring and Summer the seeds grow into trees; and thereafter the trees are cut down by the axe-wielding woodcutter. Players select cards and maneuver the boar and the woodcutter in order to get the largest stand of contiguous trees. Ages 8 and up.

Designers

Publishers

  • HABA
  • T.C. Timber/Habermaass Corp

Questions and answers

Timberland supports 2–4 players according to the catalogue. This range comes from the publisher’s listed player count, so the game can be set up for any group size within it. Some setups, rules and scoring details may still vary by player count, so check your edition’s rulebook for the exact configuration.