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Zooloretto Game Breakdown:
Our Rating:
User Rating:
(based on 2 votes)
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Details:
Number of Players: 2 to 5
Ages: 8+
Avg. Time to Play: 45 minutes
Time to Learn: 20 minutes
Released: 2007
Publisher: Rio Grande Games
Designer(s): Michael Schacht
Awards:
- Spiel des Jahres (German game of the year) 2007
- BoardGameRatings.com Recommended Family Game 2007
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In the Box:- 5 Zoos
- 5 Extensions for the zoos
- 128 tiles
- 5 wagons
- 30 coins
- 1 wooden disk
- 1 rulebook
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Availability:
In stock
List Price:
$44.95
Our Price:
$34.95
You Save:
$10.00 (22%)
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Description:
Each player uses small, large, wild and exotic animals and their young to try and attract as many visitors as possible to their zoo.
But be careful - the zoo must be carefully planned. Before you know it, you have too many animals and no more room for them. That brings minus points! Luckily, your zoo can expand.
A zoo of a family game in which less is sometimes more...
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Our Review:
Zooloretto is a family-friendly game where players attempt to build their own zoos by collecting animals and placing them in habitat enclosures. Players need to plan carefully in order to take advantage of baby animals being born and to receive extra money for completed exhibits. They need to carefully avoid taking more animals than they have room for. Players can attempt to foil opponents by taking animals they want or forcing them to take animals they don’t want. Collected coins can be used to remodel and expand zoos, and to move extra animals or buy surplus animals from opponents. Points are awarded at the end of the game for completing exhibits and using all the animals and concession stands that a player has collected along the way.
Zooloretto has enough strategy to make repeated play interesting, but this is not a heavy game. Turn play involves taking one of only three actions, two of which are simple, and a quick-reference card is provided for the slightly more complex money-actions. There can be a lot or little interaction between players, mainly depending on how aggressively players attempt to thwart each other’s carefully laid plans. Even “playing nice,” as is sometimes wise with younger children, is a fun experience. The two-player variant adds a couple of rules to make things more interesting, but Zooloretto is more interactive and exciting with three or more players. There is not nearly as much possibility of “getting stuck” with unwanted animals and needing coins to shuffle things around with only two players. The rules are concise and well-written. The time to play Zooloretto (30-45 minutes) will not vary too much regardless of how many are playing, which is always a nice game feature.
We played Zooloretto with an 8-year-old (the youngest recommended in the instructions) and she picked it up pretty quickly. With a 45-minute playing time, a fun theme (who doesn’t like cute zoo animals, especially the birth of a baby animal!), and well-done and colorful artwork, Zooloretto is an excellent family game. We had several smaller children acting as spectators, and they enjoyed watching us play nearly as much as we enjoyed playing. Zooloretto won the prestigious Spiel des Jahres Award for 2007, has won numerous other gaming awards, and comes with a high recommendation here at BoardGameRatings.com as our Recommended Family Game for 2007.
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User Reviews:
| Simple and Fun
Unlike another review, we picked up the game quick. I liked the fact that it was very easy to teach to others. We had no issues. I wanted a game that could be picked up quickly for my family who are non gamers and keep their attention. Nice simple game with strategy to keep it from getting old. Played with age group of 21-35, everyone loved it. This game won German Game of the Year for a reason.
by Michael (Nov 30 2009)
| Great Strategic Game for Children
The game provides hours of fun, great tool for teaching a child strategic playing and keeps their attention because of the theme.
The only drawback to the game was how the rules of the game were explained. It took repeated reads of them to finally understand the rules and enjoy playing.
by Erin (Dec 23 2008)
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