Carnuta Board Game

About this product

Brew wisely. Balance Sun and Moon. Become Druid of the Year.

A colourful strategy game of ingredient combinations and double-sided rune management.

Choose ingredients, manipulate your Sun and Moon runes and build the highest-scoring potion before the contest ends.

Product Description

Welcome to Carnuta, the annual druidic ritual where travellers from distant lands gather for a potion-making contest to determine the Druid of the Year.

On every turn, choose 2 actions from four possibilities: take a card, play a card, take runes or flip runes. Your actions may be the same or different, giving you freedom to gather ingredients, prepare the runes you need or add another card to your growing potion. 

At the heart of Carnuta is its double-sided Sun and Moon rune system. Playing Ingredient cards requires you to manipulate, flip and return runes, so choosing the right ingredients means thinking about both their scoring potential and what your current rune arrangement allows.

Build combinations of Day and Night ingredients, use special cards to strengthen your potion and unlock additional opportunities as it grows. Double cards count as two Ingredients of their type, while Salt works as a Wild Ingredient once added to one of your existing Ingredient groups. 

The end of the game is triggered when one player plays their 11th card. Ingredients are then scored according to the combinations you have created, and the player with the highest total wins. 

View the Carnuta Rulebook (PDF)

Why You’ll Love It

• Sun and Moon rune puzzle: Flip, spend and collect double-sided runes to pay for the cards you want to play.
• Build your own potion: Combine different ingredients and look for scoring combinations as your potion grows.
• Two actions every turn: Choose freely between taking cards, playing cards, taking runes and flipping runes.
• Day and Night ingredients: Two separate card displays give you different ingredients and opportunities to consider.
• Special ingredients add flexibility: Double cards count as two ingredients, while Salt can become an extra ingredient of another type.
• Sickles refresh your choices: Spend a Sickle to replace the visible Day or Night Ingredient cards.
• Quick strategic format: Designed for 2–4 players in around 25 minutes.

Quick Details

• Publisher: Repos Production
• Designers: Yohan Goh, Hope S. Hwang and Gary Kim
• Illustrator: Davide Tosello
• Players: 2–4
• Recommended Age: 10+
• Play Time: Approximately 25 minutes
• Game Type: Strategy board game
• Contents: 72 Ingredient cards, 22 double-sided runes, 4 boards, 8 Padlock tokens, 8 Sickle tokens, 8 Bonus Ingredient tokens, 4 counters, 1 Ancestor token and 1 score pad 

Good to Know

• Hand limit: You may hold any number of cards during your turn, but must finish with no more than 3 cards in hand. 
• Rune spaces can expand: Progressing your potion can remove Padlocks and open additional spaces on your player board. 
• Bonus Ingredients: Some progress spaces let you take a Bonus Ingredient token that counts as an extra Ingredient at the end of the game.
• Game end: Playing an 11th card triggers the final stage of the game; the highest score wins.