New York Zoo

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How many spaces do I move to breed the animals or collect the tiles I need, while also being mindful of the other players and what they need? S. player’s gold, while the latter tries hold on long enough to boost its firepower with more frigates and let the local pasha, Hamet Caramelli, raise an army in their support.

New York Zoo - Capstone Games

Thus if a tile shows an objective of three red symbols, you can place one red tile adjacent to it, and then create a chain with two more red tiles, and score it without the latter two tiles touching the one with the objective. It’s very well designed with strong artwork and supplemental texts if you want more of the history of the battles for the Barbary Coast. But be sure to time your actions well since you want your zoo to participate in as many animal breedings as possible.The game plays quite differently at lower and higher player counts and I would encourage you to try both before deciding if this game is for you. The tile colors all score differently, and you get more points for placing tiles where they’re adjacent to ones you’ve already placed.

*B Grade* New York Zoo | Board Games | Zatu Games UK

I suppose this is always something you could house rule if you were trying to make the game more challenging for yourself. Animal meeples are then placed into the carboard tray and each player takes 2 animals of the type marked at the top of the player board. The game doesn’t drag with simple to resolve actions for all players so there is very little downtime between your turns.Do you move the Elephant just enough to keep them from snatching up a tile that would fit into their board perfectly even though it means choosing something suboptimal for yourself or do you leap ahead and grab the thing you really want?