Cascadia Rolling Hills: A Puzzling Flip-and-Roll Adventure

Introduction

Cascadia Rolling Hills brings the beauty of the Pacific Northwest to your tabletop in an engaging flip-and-roll-and-write game. Designed for fans of strategic games, this puzzly adventure challenges you to roll dice, collect wildlife, and complete habitat cards to create thriving environments. With special actions to manipulate dice rolls and dynamic completion cards to unlock combos, every turn is packed with decisions that can lead to victory. Perfect for families, casual gamers, and seasoned players, Cascadia Rolling Hills balances simplicity with strategic depth.

Description

**Cascadia: Rolling Hills** is a solo or multiplayer dice-based roll-and-write game published by Alderac Entertainment Group as part of the Cascadia Rolling series. It focuses on creating prairie environment habitats by rolling and manipulating dice to collect wildlife and complete habitat cards, simulating the ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest.

• Players: 1 to 4 players (expandable up to 8 players when combined with *Cascadia: Rolling Rivers*)
• Age: Suitable for ages 10 and up
• Playtime: Approximately 15-30 minutes per game
• Game structure: Played over exactly 20 rounds
• Core mechanics:
  • Players roll a set of dice—4 central dice collectively and 2 personal dice individually—each round to collect wildlife tokens representing animals native to prairie habitats.
  • There are five types of wildlife with varying rarity and point values, bears being the most valuable. In *Rolling Hills*, prairie-relevant animals like hawks and foxes are included.
  • Players use collected wildlife to complete Habitat Cards, which unlock Completion Cards giving special abilities or bonuses during the game.
  • Players record their progress on unique double-sided Environment Sheets and Tally Sheets, each having distinctive gameplay twists to create diverse puzzle challenges.
  • Special dice actions and Completion Cards allow players to manipulate rolls or convert tokens to optimize wildlife collection and habitat completion.
• Components:
  • 3 Deluxe Wooden Central Dice and 1 Special Central Die
  • 6 Deluxe Wooden Personal Dice
  • 30 unique Habitat Cards
  • 4 Beginner and 8 Advanced Completion Cards
  • 64 Double-Sided Environment Sheets and 64 Double-Sided Tally Sheets
  • 4 Player Aid Cards
  • Detailed rulebook with quick-reference guide
• Design: By Randy Flynn with artwork by Beth Sobel, aligned with the ecosystem and aesthetic themes of the Cascadia franchise.
• Compatibility: You can mix *Cascadia: Rolling Hills* with *Cascadia: Rolling Rivers* to expand player count and gameplay variety, combining Central Dice, Habitat Cards, and Completion Cards.
• Game objective: Players aim to create the most harmonious ecosystem by strategically collecting wildlife and completing habitat areas for points. The player with the highest score after 20 rounds wins.
• Game style: Puzzly flip-and-roll-and-write that excels at easy-to-learn but strategically rich gameplay with dynamic combos unlocked via Completion Cards and dice manipulation.

Additional Information

This detailed product overview encapsulates the unique prairie environment theme, dice-driven mechanics, component details, and player experience of *Cascadia: Rolling Hills* without including prices, availability, or release dates. It is ideally suited for fans of elegant, nature-themed strategy roll-and-write games and the broader Cascadia series.

Package Contents

• 3 Deluxe Wooden Central Dice
• 1 Unique Deluxe Wooden Special Central Die
• 6 Deluxe Wooden Personal Dice
• 30 Unique Habitat Cards
• 4 Unique Beginner Completion Cards
• 8 Unique Advanced Completion Cards
• 64 Double-sided Environment Sheets
• 64 Double-sided Tally Sheets
• 4 Player Aid Cards
• 1 Rulebook with Quick-reference Guide