Why Wingspan designer Elizabeth Hargrave designed Sanibel for her dad

Wingspan, Elizabeth Hargrave’s 2019 board game about attracting birds to a wildlife preserve, was an instant success. Its eye-catching egg tokens and bird-feeder-shaped dice tower combined with elegant engine-building mechanics won it the prestigious Spiel des Jahres award and inspired numerous expansions introducing more types of birds along with spinoffs that have translated its rules to observing fish and raising dragons. Hargrave is now turning her love of nature to the seashore for Sanibel, a game about shell collecting that was just released on Jan. 16.