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Dice’s Zoo

Three boars or two elephants on two boars

Animals at the Zoo throw a farewell party for the zoo keeper and all want to take the lead so they try to organize themselves into groups.

50 animal dice are placed into the bag and shaken, each player draws 12 dice and rolls them one. You win, if you can discard all your dice first.

When no animals are on the table you can set down any number of any kind of animal; when there are already animals set down you can either set down the same number of bigger animals or more animals of the kind already on the table. As an alternative you can always re-roll any number of your dice.

When you play animals their special ability is executed: An Elephant has no effect; Bear – you can re-roll one of your own or one of an opponent’s dice; Boar – you can swap a die with an opponent; Fox – you remove an opposing die; Squirrel – a player draws an animal from the bag; Trap – cannot be played; x2 – if you use this with an animal it doubles the animal effect, but does not count for the number of animals.

Animals that were replaced are placed into a storage zone, and only go back into the bag when the bag is empty.

When a player is out of animals the remaining animals of other players are summed according to the table; for a game of several rounds you can pre-set a certain number of points; when that is reached or topped the player with fewest points wins.

A dose of Karrierepoker, a snippet of Qwirkle Cubes, all in all a nice mix of mechanisms for a simple game, good for beginners or families. And a bit of tactic can also be had if you cleverly use the special abilities of animals and re-rolling.

Players: 2-4/5

Age: 6+

Time: 15+

Designer: Kuraki Mura, Cang Mucun

Art: not named

Price: ca. 18 Euro

Publisher: Homosapiens Lab 2012

Web: www.smiling-monster.de

Genre: Dice game

Users: For families

Version: cn

Rules: cn de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Nice mix of mechanisms

Good family game

A lot of game in a little box

Compares to:

Karrierepoker, Qwirkle for some mechanisms

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0