Into the Forest (1974)

The cards in this game represent animals and plants that are found in a temperate zone forest. Each card lists what the animal eats and what it is eaten by.

The game works just like the natural food relationships in the forest with players "eating" and being "eaten" just as they would in the wild.

However, for adults, it is also fun to play as a solitaire game of building food chains.
You can design a similar game to play with a child, or possible two.

Card List:

41 cards total

Plants (one each of the following cards):
Bark, Nuts, Fruit, Grass, Fungi, Seeds, Buds & Twigs, Ferns, Herbs, Leaves

Animals that eat only plants (one each of the following cards):
Millipedes, Porcupines, Plant-eating Insects, Earthworms, Deer, Rabbits

Animals that eat plants and animals (one each of the following cards):
Birds on Twig (flycatchers), Birds on Leaf (chickadees, for instance), Opossums, Moles, Squirrels, Shrews, Mice, Skunks, Turtles, Birds on Ground (robins, for instance), Birds on Trunk (woodpeckers, for instance), Raccoons

Animals that eat only other animals (one each of the following cards):
Centipedes, Frogs & Toads, Snakes, Hawks, Owls, Spiders, Preying Insects

Animals not hunted for food by other animals (one each of the following cards):
Coyotes, Foxes, Bobcats, Bears

Death & Decay (two cards):
2 Death & Decay cards