Earth Solo Playthrough | Bits & Biology

Welcome to Bits & Biology, a channel about board games from the perspective of a biologist gamer. In this video I play a solo game of Earth after mentioning how Earth Day got started and a brief discussion of the new Earth expansion, Earth: Abundance. Timestamps can be found below in case you want to skip around.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
1:04 Earth Day history
1:54 Earth Abundance expansion comments
5:35 Setup
6:56 Choosing objectives
12:17 Choosing an island card
14:23 Choosing a climate card
15:13 Gaia’s solo deck
16:01 End game triggers
16:33 Starting resources
20:13 Game start
38:51 Drawing Gaia’s 6th card marks the halfway point of the game
1:11:11 Scoring
1:14:23 End game rambling and a plug for the Earth blog post
Bits & Biology Blog post about Earth:
Earth, An Excuse to Talk About Sustainable Landscaping: boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/14...
Link to Earth on Board Game Geek: boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3...
Earth: Official How to Play on the Gaming Rules! channel: • How to Play Earth - Of...
Interview with the designer and publisher of Earth on the Gaming Rules! channel: • Earth: Abundance - The...
Plant Select website: plantselect.org/
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[@bookaddict777]

I love this game and am ridiculously excited about the upcoming expansion. Thanks again for another great play through.

[@bitsandbiology]

Thanks! I'm also looking forward to the expansion!

[@AxelleGuitar]

Liz, you are really tempting me with this one, which has been on my wish list for a while. My birthday is next month, I may treat myself to it :) Great video!

[@bitsandbiology]

I think you will enjoy this one. While I do like the multiplayer game, I enjoy the solo game even more. 😊 Happy early Birthday!

[@JSkyF]

I had to play Earth tonight after watching your playthrough. It was super close like your game. I had 197 and Gaia had 193 🎉 🌎

[@bitsandbiology]

Nice win!

[@JSkyF]

My husband and I have around 60 different species of plants native to our area that we’ve planted in our yard. We have a local chapter of CA Native Plant Society here and we get all of our plants from them 🌿 Your wildflower meadow sounds nice and I’d love to get some fruit trees too. We have blueberries, raspberries, and salmon berries.

[@bitsandbiology]

Wow, your yard sounds beautiful! I bet you see a lot of different insects and birds. 😊

[@JSkyF]

@@bitsandbiology definitely! My husband has several different bird feeders. We get finches, jays, some warblers, grosbeaks, hummingbirds, and even some hawks.

[@elainetyger]

Rainbow cards count toward red abilities in the base game. Is it different in solo?

[@bitsandbiology]

They definitely count when you are activating abilities. But for the Fauna objective card, because it didn't picture a rainbow icon, I didn't think it would count toward the objective because there is another objective card that includes the rainbow symbol. However, I just searched the Board Game Geek Earth forum, and found somebody had asked this question, and the designer said it would count. 🙂