Puzzle world game Birdigo is basically if Wordle and Balatro hooked up and had a feathery baby. You play as a bird trying to migrate for the winter via IRL paths birds take to different locales. While that sounds simple, it’s deadly if you don’t get the right combo of feathers and songs to soar to the necessary points needed.
We’ve compiled our best tips to help you on your great migration. Hopefully, you’ll have more luck completing the game with these under your wing! (Sorry, not sorry.)
Pick a strategy, and stick to it
Birdigo has more feathers (combo cards) than an overexcited peacock. Alone, they sound mildly helpful. Together, stacked smartly, they’re the difference between top scores and becoming tomorrow’s roadkill. Build your run around a theme. Got feathers that reward even-letter words? Stack ‘em. Four-letter power-ups? Stack those too. Just make sure your cards talk to each other — you want a graceful V formation, not a flock of confused pigeons.
Boost flaps AND power
Max flaps, but no power? You’re just flapping in place like a bird against headwind. All power but no flaps? Congrats, you’re now a very heavy feathered missile headed straight for the ground. You need both to rack up scores — think of it as leg day and arm day for your bird muscles. The card in the screenshot above was a particularly helpful one — if you’re planning not to spend Seed.
Get those gold, platinum, and diamond letters
Some feathers or songs let you upgrade letters. Always bling out the ones that are already sparkly — speckled into gold, gold into platinum, platinum into diamond. Prioritise vowels and the letter S. Vowels because they’re the Beyoncé of your alphabet squad, and S because pluralising is just free points. Diamond S’s are basically cheat codes.
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Go wild for wildcards and be a copycat
On one miraculous migration, I turned my wildcard into a diamond card and duplicated it six times. How?
- One song card lets you duplicate a card once.
- Another lets you duplicate twice.
- Stack them like an unhinged ornithologist and suddenly you’ve got six wildcards, the Feral Deck unlocked, and a flock that should be declared illegal in at least three ecosystems.
Getting six wildcards in a deck also unlocks the Feral Deck, which is a great one to use.
Discard, datcard
Don’t hoard bad cards like a magpie with shiny junk. The Discard button is your best friend. Yeet your blank cards into the void and draw fresh letters. Still stuck with a boring hand? Chuck the whole thing (keep the good vowels, obviously) and roll for something shinier. Every Discard is another chance to pull a game-breaking combo out of your… nest.
Birdigo is out now on PC via Steam for $14.50. Let us know if you have any more tips or tricks up your wing that you think might help. Happy flapping!
