No

You add 1 happiness point immediately when you place a triber there. After all players have placed all of their tribers, you may take a pawn from the Shaman's Hut and place it on any free space on the game board.

There are some differences. First of all, hunted food is edible without processing. The number of your tribe members sent to the specified gathering spaces has an impact on the number of resources gathered. When you hunt, every tribe member brings you the same amount of food. Lastly, when you hunt, you may use poison tokens.

Cards help you acquire more resources or process them without sending workers to the specified spot. At the end of the game, if you have sets of cards with different symbols, you will get extra points.

The game lasts for 6 seasons and typically takes between 45 and 75 minutes to play.

No

Try to gather as much edible food as there are your tribe members. It is better not to receive some points than to be forced to take a hunger token.

The resource tokens become specified resources when they are placed on player boards. Because those resources may be processed into different foods, you only have to move them to a different spot without exchanging them for a different kind. This makes gameplay easier.

No

You may not acquire the same card that you already possess.

Yes

Every player board is slightly different, enhancing tribes in certain aspects of the game. They vary in the types of processed foods and quantities acquired during such processes.

Yes

Yes, there is a special deck of cards which simulates the Freeloaders tribe, adding some twists and turns to your solo fight for happiness points.

You have to accumulate the most happiness points at the end of the sixth season