Ark Nova - GameNight! Se10 Ep43 - How to Play and Playthrough

[Music] thank you [Music] Angelic engineer supplies [Music] all right [Music] game night Nikki what's your favorite animal Tasmanian Devil Lincoln what's yours Eurasian links and mine's a sea turtle you can watch us acquire care for and maybe release into the wild all these animals and more as we teach and play Arc Nova a game for one to four zookeepers designed by Matthias wiga and published by foyerland and Capstone games come and watch us shuffle a gigantic deck of cards and build some tiles as we expand our zoos and all kinds of fun stuff as we work towards conservation and education won't you hey Aaron hi Lincoln will you teach us Arc Nova yes it's terraforming Mars but with animals okay let's begin okay sweet already um it is a little bit like terraforming Mars because it has a gigantic deck of cards and we'll never see the whole thing in our first game and they all have individualized texts and abilities but uh you know it's a zoo game with animals we all have our little Zoo map in front of us here we're gonna build some enclosures and put some animals in them and make points in a variety of interesting ways uh we are starting with the basic Zoo map not with the advanced ones with special powers and we're going to look at the central board here and then our individual Zoo maps and player card actions here on the middle board we have six uh cards in a display that we're going to be able to draw and do things from these are just for example purposes we'll set up brand new ones before we start the game and we have four tracks to look at these Brown tickets running this way around the board are the appeal track that's essentially one kind of victory points and because I'm the start player I start lowest and Nikki has one more appeal and Lincoln has one more appeal than I do this also uh tracks your income this gray number this is your money income every time we have a break and we're going to come back to what a break is in a very short moment the green Track Running uh counterclockwise no clockwise around the board is the conservation track and we all start at zero but that's another type of points that we will earn throughout the game those two types of points together are essentially both your victory points and when your tokens meet in the middle somewhere might be right here or it might be over here it might be over here that's going to trigger the end of the game conservation points also come with some rewards when the When You Reach two conservation points you get a choice of a big upgrade and five and eight and I'll come back to what those mean and when any one player reaches 10 conservation points we're all going to choose one of our final scoring cards to discard and the other one will give us some end game points what if we never get to that then it's actually part of final scoring that's in the rules wow but I I've never seen it happen more likely we all will pass that 10 conservation points but if we can't use them both we can't use them both yeah I know right um this awesome little coffee cup token is for the brake track because it's like your coffee break and this token will move towards the break symbol here by via a few mechanisms and when this happens we will process a few things that are right here printed on the board that's essentially like the round it's right if there's not a strict round limit or or turns in a round but this is a timer that will give us some income and we'll have to check our hand limit and discard and some other sort of upkeep things it's a very cool little mechanism and it's all printed here on the board and I'll come back to it after we explain what moves that token here on our player boards in front of us we've got a map that we'll build on these yellow pentagons are all bonuses that we will unlock very helpful for us we've got some places to place things that I'll explain in a moment these Association workers are important for the association action you start with one and you can get up to three more during the game we all start with 25 money and an X token that's for boosting the power of Your Action you can hold up to five of them and I'll explain how they boost your actions in a few minutes and on the left side of the board these are Big conservation tokens that you will use to score some big points and also unlock bonuses this is a key way to score big points and win the game and I'll explain how that works but first we're going to look at the meat of the game is your five action cards that we all have the same Five Below our player boards every turn you're going to take one card select it and move it down a little bit and after you perform the action on the card that card is going to move to slot one and all the rest of your cards will move to the right the number above the card that you chose to activate that turn is the power of that action for the turn that's where your X token comes in maybe my Association card is here at slot four so I move it down here but I really need to perform that action at Power five so I'm going to add an X token and perform that action at Power five I will still at the end of my turn move this Association card to slot one move any cards that were to the left of it to the right anything that was to the right if it stays where it was and the card I used always goes to slot one to finish my turn now we'll look at these cards and what they do first I've got this empty Zoom app so how am I going to fill it I'm going to build some things with the build card the build card lets you on its unupgraded side build one building you've got some size one buildings these are enclosures that hold animals and you've got Pavilions and kiosks very briefly kiosks will get you money in the break phase and Pavilions are just good for filling in gaps and they get you one appeal and closures hold animals they can be of sizes one to five there are some special enclosures here's one called the petting zoo that one is size three you can only build one of each special enclosure in your zoo ever is it an evil petting zoo that's up to you you're the zoo manager you tell me on the build card it tells you uh everything costs two per space so if you built a petting zoo you need to spend six money if you built a kiosk or a one size enclosure that just costs two money and it tells you what you're allowed to build right at the bottom there when you upgrade this build card you now have a couple other buildings you can build the reptile house and the bird aviary those are both size five so they're gonna cost you 10 money and you can now build more than one building with your build action when it's upgraded you can never and this is on the card they must be different buildings you can never build more than one of the same building with the same action I can't build five kiosks at Power five or even two of these level two enclosures with the same action I can come back on a future action and do that but not at the same action let's look at your map here real quick and say I did build this petting zoo your very first build on your Zoom app must touch a border space and Edge space rocks and water are not buildable spaces unless you find the card in this gigantic deck that lets you break that rule this is one of those kind of games everything I'm about to say has an asterisk at the end of it where there's a card in the deck that lets you break that rule but I'm not going to worry about that too much but normally no you can't build over rocks and water there are there are reasons for the rocks and water to be there that you'll find out in a minute your first tile must touch an edge space must cover a bordered space and then every other thing you place in a zoo must touch an existing tile when you cover one of these yellow pentagons you get that bonus they are some of them are very clear these this is the money symbol these gray squares this means take an X token this symbol means draw a card from the deck or your reputation range I'll explain that in a moment when I explain the cards action this little graduation hat means take two reputation that's the fourth track here on the middle board this is not a victory Point track this simply marks your reputation range for selecting cards with certain actions I'm going to come back to that but there are also yellow pentagons which unlock bonuses on that track anytime you see that graduation hat cap that means reputation and the last little bonus type on here is this one card that will also come on some animal and play card bonuses that will mean after you've completed your full action you get an additional card move so after I have say taken my build action and moved it to slot one and moved all the other cards down or to the right I now get an additional card to slot one let's say I'm never gonna play this sponsors card in my next few actions so I get to move that to slot one and slide these all to the right because of because of this symbol which is on your Zoo map but you may also see it on other cards hey I have a question go for it can I fill my whole zoo up with petting Zoo's an aviator Aviation no you can only build one of each of those things okay one of each of these three special buildings the specials okay correct you can fill your zoo up with all kinds of other things and in fact that's a great idea Nikki because you get seven appeals for filling your Zoom app completely okay that is a goal that is good for everyone even if you don't have a final scoring card or special other card that rewards you for it seven appeal is a pretty good uh Point jump I wanted my Zoo to be the petting zoo zoo yeah no apparently sorry one evil petting zoo per player oh darn it um there's one other uh special little rule about build building is when you build the Aviary or the reptile house you have a one-time special opportunity to move animals that are allowed to go in that building into that building from other enclosures it's just a one-time opportunity and it will save you some space and open up some other enclosures for other animals I'll explain that a little bit more when we get to the animals uh card when we get to the animals action so I keep talking about cards and we're going to start the game with a few but I want to get more how am I going to do that I'm going to use the cards action the cards action always starts with break two it moves the coffee cup I was talking about two spaces that will progress us towards the break it also lets me draw and sometimes discard cards it based on the power level of the cards action this is an action you'll never boost past level five but some actions will benefit from going past level five the build action that we were just talking about on side one you would never want to go past level five because the biggest building you could build is five but if I've upgraded it to build multiple buildings maybe I'm going to boost it up to eight or ten because I can build all kinds of stuff the cards action on both sides only goes to level five there's no reason to boost it past five it tells you how many cards to draw on discard you can discard a card that was already in your hand it does not have to be a card that you just drew in fact see that level one is draw one card and discard one that would be kind of silly if you had to draw discard the one you just drew you can discard any one card from your hand you do have a hand limit but you don't have to enforce it until the break so we'll talk about that in a second at Power five we see a new symbol here I have a choice of drawing three cards and discarding one from the deck or snapping a card this is a special term in this game it means I can take any one card from the display from any slot and just take it into my hand one card no cost nice the upgraded side of the cards action lets me snap from Power three power four or power five still it's always one card always no cost but you can see that um the upgraded side of the card lets me draw a few more cards and and discard a few less or at least with different power levels it also lets me draw cards from either the deck or my reputation range so I briefly mentioned the reputation track at the beginning our reputation ranges down here we can only draw cards from this level from slot one but if my reputation has moved up here I have access to the first two cards and if it's up here I have access to the three the first three cards Etc there's an additional cost to this it costs one two or three money or four or five or six if I can go that far it always costs based on the slot the card is in there are other actions I'm going to get to that will let you play other cards uh directly from the board with this same cost upgrade one through six money remember that snapping just lets you take the card immediately with no cost but it says draw or play from your reputation range that's based on where your reputation marker is and it always includes the additional money cost based on the slot that's the cards action now two-thirds of the cards or so are animals so I want to put some animals in my enclosures in my petting zoo how do I do that with the animals card this is another one that doesn't go past power five it's just Powers one through five on the card and on the unupgraded side power one does nothing so I either want to boost it or wait until it's at least that power too pretty simple power two three or four I play one animal from my hand power five I can play two if I have two animals that I can do from my hand let's look at a couple simple animal cards they've got information on the cards that this iconography will become very familiar to you the first number in the top left tells you the size of the enclosure that that animal requires you can put it in a bigger enclosure but you need an empty enclosure of at least that size in your zoo this special shape enclosure means that's a petting zoo animal that animal can only go in a petting zoo and this is also the petting zoo icon over here an animal that's not a petting zoo animal will also have an animal type icon a primate a predator a reptile Etc and a continent of origin there's a way to get a discount based on the content of origin we're going to come back to in a moment this on the left is a prerequisite for this animal you need to have a partner Zoo you will also see prerequisites based on having more primates having more reptiles having more Africa animals already in your zoo these are icons that you need to have already in your zoo this animal is a lot simpler to play because it doesn't have any prerequisites this gray square is a money cost there is a way to Discount those which we'll come back to after you have checked your prerequisites and have a per have an enclosure that fits the animal and paid your money cost you can then take the rewards and process the bottom part of this card you will often get an appeal bonus for playing the animal sometimes even a conservation Point bonus and often a special ability reward or a special action at the bottom of the card this one has an interactive ability that's what that yellow hexagon means for your first game or if you want to play a friendly game you do not have to use the interactive abilities we're not going to use them because they sort of draw the game out a little bit instead you just activate this bottom blue band so instead of reading pilfering one which is his interactive ability we just would use Sprint one draw one card from the deck so the interactive ability is replaced by this blue band but other animals may tell you to move a card to your one slot or draw an extra card Etc the last thing you do is flip over the enclosure that's in your zoo that that animal goes in you must always fill up an enclosure that the animal goes in or for a petting zoo reptile house or bird aviary place a cube in the appropriate building this bird takes up one space in my petting zoo so I would Place one cube of my color on my petting zoo building and to look very quickly here's a bird that would normally need a size 4 enclosure on its own but if I've built this gigantic bird aviary he's only going to take one out of the five spaces in it so you can see that those big expensive buildings are kind of a way to save a lot of space and a lot of building cost in your zoo okay which is another reason you might want to take that action to move a bunch of things into them when you build them yeah because it empties the existing it empties the existing enclosures exactly that is the animal's action the upgraded animal side is the same except you can play two animals a little earlier you can also play Animals from your hand or reputation range so we've already discussed this you can play Animals directly from the display you're going to pay an extra cost based on what slot it's in but you can if I like this crocodile and I meet all the prerequisites and I have the money I can play him directly into my Zoo from the display I'm gonna go in my reptile house there wow that's a size five though if it's not inside it takes three it takes three-fifths of your reptile house but even still that's a savings probably because you got to keep him away from all your other reptiles the power five of the upgraded animals side also comes with a reputation boost and the rules say take that first because it might actually increase your range of cards that you can take from oh that's cards that you can play okay the last little part of um playing animals that I need to mention is let's look at this crocodile from the display he has a requirement to be built next to water to live next to water so whether he's in a size five enclosure over the reptile house that tile must be next to water if I somehow Built My reptile house over here well uh up here and it's not next to water then you can't I cannot put the crocodile there maybe his regular size five include I don't know it's supposed to go like that would be so you sort you need to be aware of that okay there are also um these are specific build requirements you may end up with this card in your hand and just never be able to play it because you don't have room for a size five that will go next to rocks we're not building the animals no no you're building an enclosure that will fit that animal but if you've already built a size five enclosure and you forgot to put it next to your rocks you know this card may not be any good for you so that's another thing to be are there any of them well we saw the one that requires two water right uh I don't know if we did but there are is that two or three on that one is it just one it's one they're all there are there are cards that require two rocks or two yes and even though it's not super clear it transfers over to the reptile house or bird aviary if it needs to be next to rocks or water the reptile house or Brewery also requires that same okay building all right the sponsorship card is quite easy because it's like a simplified version of the animal card sponsorship cards are these blue cards they have a blue notebook symbol in the top left and they give you bonuses that are printed directly on the card sponsorship cards are very cool because they're like you know hey the life of reptiles as presented by Dole pineapple and they let you get an interesting you know uh powers and income abilities and special buildings even for very little or no cost so here's how the sponsorship action works the unupgraded side says play a sponsors card with a maximum level of x from your hand sponsorship cards have a level printed right on the card this one you'll see is actually level six so you would have to have Your sponsorship card at a pretty high level and boost it with X tokens to play this card but a lot of them are power one through five or level one through five and there's no additional money cost you're just playing the card to play this card uh some sponsorship cards come with a special building that you get to immediately place in your zoo this building is not reversible you have to actually find room for it as printed like you have no more space that you can't actually do that one yes some there you once your zoo is full you can't play cards with special buildings on them anymore too bad there's no explosive actually as far as I know right there is no explosive demolition card in this deck but there absolutely could be spot a lot of times there are somewhat confusing symbology up here at the top of the card but it's almost always explained right here in the text a lot of sponsorship cards provide income income is almost always purple and it'll tell you exactly what to do sometimes it's straight money and sometimes it's money based on certain symbols or certain animals or whatever uh Brown in this game always means end game points so if it's got a little brown stripe up here and a symbol down here this one means if you've reached reputation nine at the end of the game hourglass means end game you get an additional conservation Point yellow in this game always means immediately so in this this card would immediately give you three money when you play it that would only be once right for that one immediately and one time is yellow purple is every income during the break and brown is end game okay so the sponsor card lets you play a sponsor card of that level if you don't have any sponsor cards in your hand or it's just not the right time you can get a little extra money and Advance this break coffee cup this is the optional other part of the sponsor card it's very clear you break X meaning the power of Your Action one through five or more if you've boosted it and you gain that much money on the upgraded side of the sponsor card you break X and gain double that money so that could be up to 10 or 12 or 14 or more money if you really need money and that's the only way you can get it the upgraded sponsor action lets you play multiple sponsor cards it makes the power level X plus one wow so I could play this uh right without this without actually spending any X tokens correct and I can play from my reputation range on the display as we've discussed you pay a money cost based on the slot but I could play directly from the board without having the sponsor card in my hand would it have to be a sponsor card that you it does have to be a sponsor okay you're not even picking it up you're just playing it immediately into your played card I couldn't you can't play an animal card or any other type okay our last card type and almost the most important for scoring big points is the association this is the boring corporate meeting and partner side of the zoo management business maybe they can have zoos in the meeting or like an animal no no animals only Zoom board meetings and clipboards and paperwork and nope nope that's all boring I want a cute animal to pet to keep this is where you use your Association workers that you start with only one of and you will see how valuable getting more of them is there's this sideboard over here for Association workers and you will see that there are actions listed for power two through five there so performing The Association uh action at level one does not do anything okay if I take the association action with power two the only thing I can do is place a worker here and take two reputation it's a nice little boost okay if I take power three I can always do the power two action of course if I want to but I can place there and this is the partner zoos there are five of these from the five continents that are active in the game our spot for them here is on our player board here you see there are only four spots so you'll never have all five you can only have four but anyone that's available there I can take and just place on my Zoo board okay this does several things it gives me that negative three money discount for placing animals from that continent there are some very rare animals that have a continent listed twice at the top of their card I would actually get a negative six cost but for most purposes it's going to be negative three neat your second partner Zoo covers up a symbol that says upgrade an action that's a very important symbol when I cover when I get my second partner zoo I get to upgrade an action card that's a key thing to be aware of okay um let's look at the next part if I'm at Power four I can take a university partner there are only three types of universities you can never take the same one twice so there are three slots again on my Zoo board but if I've already gotten the one you want for the turn you have to take one of the ones that's left okay and if you've already taken all those you can't take you can't duplicate all right however this is another way your second University will also upgrade another action card and your third one will get you to uh conservation points okay the universities you can see one of them increases your hand limit from three to five yeah two of them give you reputation points and two of them give you research icons that doesn't really do anything for you right now until you see that a lot of the sponsorship cards have research requirements and even some of the animals might have advanced research requirements let me point out that some animals might even have card requirements like I can't play this monkey until I've upgraded my animals action oh uh you can see that I cannot progress on the reputation track until I've upgraded my cards action past level nine all right you can't build on certain spaces on your map until you've upgraded your build action you can't we already covered that you can't build the reptile house and the Aviary until you've upgraded your build action you can't get your third and fourth partner Zoo until you've upgraded your Association action and we're about to talk about one more thing you can't do until you've upgraded your Association actually okay let's look at level five if you've done a power five Association action this might be the most important action in the game okay this is how you get big jumps on the conservation track and essentially increase your score the the biggest and and get to the end of the game and possibly win so we're gonna put out three new cards these are just for sample purposes but there are going to be three cards here these are called base conservation projects and we're gonna also have some of them in the display and in our hand and we're also going to have final scoring cards that are similar okay at the beginning of the game these are all based on icons or things in our zoo that we qualify for and they all reward conservation points looking at here a very simple one here this is Asia so if you have two or more Asia symbols in your zoo grab that Asia Zoo partner icon Mickey if you took this Asia Zoo partner zoo that counts as an Asia icon in your zoo all right cool and then you later got this uh this ugly eye old vulture as an animal in your zoo they're necessary you know hey well you know he's comfortable with who he is he he looks in the mirror and he's happy with who he is everybody but he's counts as a second Asia icon and you know you you got them for cheaper because you already had an Asia icon here that's right you got this thing you got a minus three you now have two Asia icons in your zoo and you can when you play a five Power Association icon uh action Place one of these cubes on this level oh okay from here that is correct that is something that we should all always be aware of is who can place on these cards and when you can take this action okay now I'm about to talk about these seven cubes on your zoo board here they're very important uh which one you choose and when you activate these cards but unless you have a card that lets you break this rule you can only play once on each of these cards so whether you take the first quick one you can get to or whether you try to get to oh I'm going to get a higher reward for four Asia icons or the biggest reward for five is up to you okay however choosing one of these rewards by picking up a cube off of your zoo board is Big rewards big big money okay big Zoo Rewards these all have rewards listed on that you get when you pick up the cube and place it on the Conservation Club all right and I'm about to explain one more way to do that but let's look at them real quick okay again they have this yellow instantaneous power and or the purple income power the first one is the snap folder symbol that we've seen it means you immediately get to snap a card from the display and every break income that's the last thing we're going to talk talk about this one means you get to build a two space enclosure for free immediately and during every break income this is five money immediately and enduring every break income this is a conservation Point immediately enduring every income and these last three are only one time but placing the cube is also still very valuable this is an extra Association worker immediately available into your pool to play Take it From The Bottom though you do thank you Nikki you take it from the bottom everything is from bottom up you place your partner Zoo's bottom up you place your universities bottom up okay and this one is 12 money and this one is 3x tokens they're all very good you decide which one to place from you can only place once on each of these cards so there's these three that start the beginning of the game but there are also going to be these that end up in your hand or on the board you can play a new conservation project to the top of this Association board as part of this five as this five action this five power action okay only if you can immediately place a cube on it oh sure so so Nikki's gonna play this bird breeding program sure and it says You must have a bird and a partner zoo of the appropriate type so she's got a bird and a partner Zoo from Asia so she's done it yay and she places on any spot in that card and takes the reward she places her Cube she takes the reward oh that's just Annie that one is Penny it is not a you must have two or you must have three yourself what you're going to gain is a uh right yeah but you will find quite a few of these that will be similar like this one's based on Rock icons in your zoo like the rock icon on this monkey you'll find ones that are based on the continents you'll find ones that are based on types of buildings you'll find those that are based on animal types or different symbols there you'll find one for almost everything okay but when you play it from your hand or the board you must be able to place a cube on it immediately and do so and that happens when you do the associate the association of those okay um one last thing to say is of if you've done that card and I later play another card that one shifts to the right and my new card comes in on the left okay with three players that can only ever be three of those let's put a new card in thank you okay if someone plays a fourth one the one on the right goes off the board and away from the game but you still have already earned your points for it you still have already cleared your Cube here you've gotten all the rewards but they will time out eventually as people play more of those cards the upgraded Association card side lets me do more than one Association action in a single action let's say Nikki move my uh worker to level two or three okay let's say I've taken let's say I've upgraded my action now and I've got all these workers all right it doesn't matter where your worker is but if my worker is on a space I want to use again I have to pay two workers that's listed right at the top of the association but if I want another partner zoo I have to place two workers where I already have one all right if I want to do this action and I haven't done it yet already it only costs one but if I come into this action other player colors the fact that I might have already taken you know the zoo that you want for this round okay but yes if you play where you have already gone it cost you two it doesn't matter about the other people all right the all the other bonus for having your upgraded Association action is that you can also make a donation this costs zero power and it does not cost a worker but you only have it available when your card is upgraded that's why it's in this purple color this is just an immediate one conservation Point boost which is actually a pretty big boost as you advance along the game and they get more and more expensive so the very first conservation uh donation of the game only costs two money and then they go up in price from five to seven to ten and then they all cost 12 money where do I take the cube from there's no Cube um I'm sorry you're right YouTube states that you take any Cube just to Mark which ones I've done but from this not not the good cues from there that would be a good way to okay so it would have been here from there from your regular old piddly cubes okay to make a donation you do have to do a regular Association action you cannot just say I'm only making the free donation you must take a power action and have a worker available correct you can't not have a worker and just do the donation or skip the other actions and just do the donation okay donation is an optional bonus after you have done the regular donation action got it if you don't want to or can't do any of those five card actions the sixth thing you can do on your turn is take an X token this is kind of like a pass but you still choose one of your cards move it down and move it all the way to the one space move anything that was to the left of it to the right as if you activated that card so it's kind of like a pass you always get an X token but you still move a card as if you activate any one of them anyone you choose this was pointed out to me as a really great action like say you've built everything in your zoo and your map is completely filled but your build card is stuck at level five right so now you can pass take an X token and move it down to slide okay but so if there's any other situation where you just don't like an action you take an X token and you move a card that is the sixth type of action okay cool the last thing to talk about which we've mentioned several times is the break we've moved the coffee cup with our cards action and we've moved the coffee cup with our sponsors action pass or our sponsors action optional version there will also be some animal card effects and things that will move the break token when the break token gets here we do a break there's an X token here the player who moved this to the break gets an extra X token that's a little reward sometimes for moving it there at the end of that player's turn they do their entire turn normally then we process the break we just do these six things in order it's real simple it's all on the board icons first we check hand size your hand size of cards is three unless you have the university that makes it five you discard whatever you don't want you keep what the rest then you clear temporary icons a lot of these are the interactive abilities that we are not going to use for this game to keep things simple so that's going to be pretty easy there's also the occasional times two icon which lets you perform an action twice if you have one of those and haven't used it yet you lose that at this point then we reset the association board you get all your workers back you reset the partner zoos so there's always five of those you reset the university so there's always three of those okay and you're always going to have they're going to be differences they're printed right on the board it's always going to be one of each of those all right then we will refresh the display of the one and two slots will always clear the rest will go to the left and two new ones will come out here at the end of any turn in which you took card the same thing would happen roughly you would move cards to the left and fill in to the top slots then we take income your income comes from four possible categories first it comes from your appeal track that I noted here second it can come from kiosks kiosks make a dollar one money for every building that they are next to except for an empty regular enclosure so a petting zoo whether or not it has cubes in it always makes a dollar for the kiosks next to it the reptile house and the Aviary also a pavilion a special building always gives a kiosk a dollar if it's next to it empty enclosures do not but filled enclosures do give kiosks money and I did not mention that kiosks have a spacing rule they must be three spaces away from another kiosk so two hexes in between each kiosk this is an illegal kiosk placement this is fine okay okay that's the only placement rule otherwise anything can be next to anything else except for rocks and water can't be built over um some sponsorship cards will have income listed on them you just read what's on the sponsored card and take income and then the fourth possible type of income is from this uh cubes that you may have unlocked for instance Nikki we placed a cube over there and she has now an extra five dollars in income every round every break then once we've all calculated and taken our income we place the coffee cup back on the beginning of the break track and we start a new round with a new players next player that is Arc Nova I don't think I've forgotten anything I have some questions please ask me a question um what is what is this icon and this or is this different color is for the interactive effects so it doesn't matter for our game oh okay but while you have less than this number of points you can't be targeted by interactive effects all right this there will you'll see some cards that actually say they're like better for the beginning of your game or better while your zoo is uh lower development and they'll just say right on the card you can't play this once you're over 25 appeal oh so you could get a card that's that's really but all right you'll have quite a while to sort of get around it but yeah you'll actually see a card that just says too bad you can't play this right now too bad you can't play this anymore anymore you can actually move backwards on the appeal track in one circumstance a type of associate a type of conservation card that I didn't cover there are quite a few that let you release animals into the wild so to release an animal you're gonna place a cube on that card that you qualify for as normal you will get a big conservation bump but you need to discard the card go backwards on the appeal track the number of appeal on that animal not the conservation or any other rewards on the animal card you get to keep those cool and if you did have it in a enclosure you get to re-flip that enclosure and refill it again later or if it was in your reptile house or pettings or whatever you get to take those cubes off and use that space again but you do lose the card it is event it is end game progress and point progress overall but that's how you release an animal into the wild it's as far as I know the only way to go backwards on the appeal track okay the the last thing I only briefly mentioned was these tokens the first person to get or pass to five or eight it's their choice of these tokens this is a draw three cards from your reputation range or the top of the deck you can choose those one at a time this is an action Doubler it means you would get to take a times two action in the next and choose one of your cards the next time you do that action you get to do it twice not at Double Power just perform it twice at whatever power it's at right now that's very valuable but for don't forget it goes away at the break so you do need to use it quickly and then this is just 3x tokens this one is very interesting and can be powerful this is play a sponsorship card from your hand with a money cost of whatever the level of the card is so it's kind of like a free action but you do pay a money cost which normally sponsorship cards don't have what are these two here I mean are these permanent those are permanent they're always the same they are big rewards so when you get to each person that when they get to conservation level two gets a choice you can either upgrade one of your action cards big reward or take one of your Association workers big reward but it's you've already got all yours you're doing great um note that you also get an association worker for one of your partner zoos you get an association worker here at the reputation track you get a card upgrade here at the reputation track you can get an association worker here from placing this Cube so being aware of all those upgrades is important and getting to them as quickly as you can can be a key part of your game are there more of these there are we have shown it will be a little different for every game all right we're going to take a quick camera break and set up the game we're gonna have six new cards in the display we get a hand of eight cards that we choose four to start from and we're gonna have three base conservation projects and two final scoring cards that we will keep secret from each other and then I will start the game with the first action and we're going to shuffle our action cards except for animals animals always starts in slot one and the other four are randomized so Shuffle those up and we'll see you in a second [Music] Angelic engineer supplies all right we've done all our setup and I'm ready to take my first game action and I will go over final scoring a little bit more in detail I mentioned that it happens when your appeal marker and your conservation marker reach the same scoring area that means the conservation band that is in here if this happens on my turn the end game is triggered the other players get another turn okay if it happens during a break everyone gets another turn and then when so your your you check your current score you check all your end game Brown cards that could be sponsor cards and things for your final scores and your one final scoring card that you kept for your final scores and then you check usually or someone's markers will usually have passed each other someone's may not have and this is how you check your final score which can be positive or negative you take where your conservation token is and you take the lowest number and you subtract that from when you're where your appeal token is okay so if my conservation token is here I take 19 as my base score and subtract it from 29. it's not it's not the third oh it's 29. okay it's uh the appeal so that's 10 points okay they're both on the appeal no you take the lowest appeal number in the conservation so if I ended up just like this I'd score one point because I take the lowest appeal number and subtract from where my appeal marker is hmm Vice if Nikki triggered the end game and I ended up right here I have negative two points because I this is my lowest conservation band number and this is my appeal that's how you calculate your final score and obviously the highest number wins and the tiebreaker should we need one on this gigantic score track is actually your number of conservation projects supported so however many cubes right here are missing from the left side of your board okay so that's another reason those are important all right all right I'm ready for my first action it's gonna be Association so I'm playing my Association power at level three and I'm going to place my worker on the level three and take the Australia partner Zoo you are moving already I am because I'm going for it oh we put out three new cards here and they are based on Australia icons in your zoo and primates in your zoo and habitat diversity so that's having every continent available or represented in your zoo so those are all those are endgame conditions or scoring conditions that we all are being aware of and I've done an association action and I'm moving my cards to the right when you are done wow okay quick quick quick I was not you you better have been right I didn't I didn't put myself together correctly yet let me get there uh okay I am going to where is my Association is three okay um just to be clear what do I what action do I choose to get a card from here when you get the cards you can snap right there oh snap and you can also buy from your realm of influence right and she's at level one buying from reputation ranges only on all the upgraded sides of the cards but snap is that cards five yes which is what she's got so then that's what I'm gonna do I'm going to do cards action all right move that down uh the break goes up to it does unfortunately uh and then I'm at level five so I draw three cards or I snap correct so I am gonna actually snap and take this first card no you do not I don't know I do not all right and that's your whole turn that is my whole turn I have that and we will refill and I'll move all those symbols wow slide that's a lot of prerequisite to be clear I may not have been clear on the animal cards the left side is always prerequisite the top symbols are the only ones that count for having that symbol in your zoo okay okay what was the one that came out it is a common European Adder it is uh it has a interactive effect that we will ignore so it's bonuses oh it's bonuses after the current action perform one additional action and it is a 10 cost reptile that's actually not that uh expensive although you need a partner Zoo to play it and it can go in a reptile house so it doesn't need to okay I'm in the five positions so I will um on my cards so I'm going to do that I'm going to draw three and discard one since there's nothing I really want there okay and that is all I'll break two right yes oh yeah and then I'll discard this card right here okay all right I am building uh I would love to build a bunch of different buildings but I can't because my build card is on the blue side I'm just going to build a level two enclosure for four money and my first building must be on the edge of my Zoo but I get to cover some fun bonus I think I'll go here and cover this x token okay so I will take a bonus X token and then I'll move my card down and I'm done okay I'm gonna do the sponsor action that's at five so I'm playing the expert in small animals you uh your cost to play a small animal is reduced by three my question that I have is if I play a small animal that's worth one can I put it out for zero no cost well is there an animal that costs one it's the cost to actually play the money if there is a money cost that's less than three yes yeah you're not going to get any money back okay but yeah I I kind of think six or seven is probably the lowest animal cost there's also like you know when I was looking at the car it's one very low one but there's also this is the immediate effect which isn't going to happen but if you had any small animals you would get one appeal immediately immediately for a small animal but because I don't I'm just I'm setting up and that is everything for your free sponsor card you can shift well I'm going to do Association as well I'm at four so I'm going to do the hand limit University I don't know what that University is but it's hand limit University it also comes with a reputation award nice so you now go here and you placed your guy I am going to play some animal and it's going to be all right it's going to be this because oh no I can't play that one don't it's gonna be this one instead um it is a platypus um you know it doesn't say but I think that's the only time build are there non-duct-build platypus platypi platypus probably all right so he goes in a level two enclosure which I have it must be next to water which it is it costs 10 but it goes down to seven because I have the Australia partner Zoo so I need 13 change please we're ignoring the Venom ability because we're playing these simpler non-interactive game so I also get an X token for the bonus which is the blue band bonus and he gives my Zoo for appeal so to yes four and I will flip this enclosure because it is now occupied occupied by a platypode and you don't put a cube on those only you don't only on the petting zoo and the other ones that you need to track how full they are um and I can only play one because this is at Power three and I paid for it and I got the appeal and I am done okay I'm gonna actually well sure no I'm gonna build I'm going to build one I'm going to build a a one ink well it seems kind of silly to do a one enclosure at the start of the game I'm going to do a one enclosure hey why not why not if you've got something that fits in it so that costs me too and a one enclosure please [Music] thank you gotta be on the edge it's on the edge it's going on the edge it's going to go right here and I'm going to cover up my little graduation hat so I go up two I am blue one two and that's my turn moving the building cool I'm gonna do my sponsors action it's at four I'm gonna do the engineer each time you build at least one building with a build action you may build exactly one more of the same kind except for special enclosures at the normal cost and I gained five appeal when the the map is completely covered so it's like it would be 12 if I'm able to get there I mean maybe even without that that's a really good power yeah and that is that that goes down the sponsors goes down to the bottom but you can see I saved my build action to do that so I can maybe build a couple of structures right off the bat I'm going to do cards action so break two and am I going to boost it to snap or am I going to draw is there something you really want there's a couple that I like but I also already have three I don't know if five is good to have or not since the break is sort of coming up I'll just draw I'll just take my luck I get to just draw two and keep them live with my luck I'm done living with my luck I'm doing the association action going here and taking the Europe partner Zoo partner zoo and that is my turn Partners ooh okay well I'm gonna build so I have a lot of small animals I should have I wish I had this small animal zoo guy um or whatever I think that was a conservation card that would have been fun um well build the one cost me two throwing money around but not enough and I'll put it here where I get five yeah and then I get to build another one another one spot one are you do you have an animal in it oh yeah all right flip it to the empty side and then I get another one which I will put um nice so right here and then that will cost me two okay and that is the end of my turn and I'm gonna build I'm gonna pay four for another two enclosure actually yeah and then kind of a 10 back I'm gonna cover my ten dollar space and I'm gonna place that right here and I'll move my build card down here I'm done okay I am well this is kind of a less than great I'm gonna do animals I can I'm in the five spot but I can only build one yeah so uh I'm building this little guy oh he's cool he is cool he's another Europe icon lizardy thing he's eight so you pay five so I pay five because of that because of this one and is it considered small animals oh wait also is it right it's a one yes so you actually only pay two so I pay two she needs three more dollars back okay okay and you place you flip that enclosure whether it's next to water all right and and you get three appeals three appeal I am blue one two three right next to you and and then my little special is you may sell up to two cards from your hand for four coins each that's kind of cool I would love to do that so that's not always right no it's immediately right now when you play the card and that's it you may sell up to two cards from your hand yeah that's the problem I'm not quite it's fantastic but I I don't but you don't you yeah you don't quite yeah love it right now it's not but I got an animal in there and that and I got another one of these icons and that's real cheap also yes and it was very inexpensive by the way that is a Chinese water dragon yeah that's what we said it when she pulled it off the board yeah yeah that was when I that I snapped so I'm going to take the animals action and because my card's at the power five I get to bring in two animals so I'm gonna do European pond Turtle it's gonna cost me three a nine excuse me I wish it was three and that's just gonna bring up my uh appeal by four okay um yellow one two three four you are at six now okay and then I'm gonna do the raccoon raccoon raccoon that one is raccoon 11. he's very raccoon hey what's that white symbol on there it's a bear it's a baby bear it's another animal type all right why is it white I don't know why raccoons I guess because it can appear with other symbols and okay there's some other cards that are like however many bear symbols you have do this all right and I flip those two buildings over and as that goes down okay and then how does it work with the association it says I can move this to five does it um does it just everything slide down if I move it to the five yeah it's just the opposite of moving it to one okay uh if you move it to one everything displaced moves to the right if you move it to five everything with field moves to the left okay in the game yeah and that's of course optional if you don't want to move a car right all right you know you guys all did animals but I'm gonna do that next turn I'm gonna do sponsors I think I'm gonna play sponsors for five power and play native seabirds this is one of those ones that's Max 25 so I would not be able to play it once my appeal is over 25. I wonder why okay I because it could actually build this one is based on how many water spaces I've connected so I think it would be too good late in the game and it's actually just sort of meant to be a light it's just giving me three appeal for connecting three water spaces so it's not that good because we're a pretty water because I got some water spots for the birds to swim in so I get one two three appeal and at the end of the game it gives me a conservation point for every two isolated water spaces meaning every two water spaces that I did not fill but that's sort of counterintuitive because then I would not get the seven for filling in the entire park right oh so I sort of have I have an option right I can now either not fill my entire zoo and get that or I can and get the other thing um but that's my entire turn I got my three appeal for playing that sponsor card I am going to do cards break two uh I am going to snap a card actually what would you like yes I would like this primate here the Japanese macaque yes all right that's it you get that card for free my whole turn and then the blue part will be my because we're not playing with those so the card to one yep and I will fill in a new card it is talented Communicator sponsorship card oh you get to immediately take an association worker but you have to have upgraded your sponsors card okay to use this card so it's really good but you have to have an upgraded action it also has an end game point on it I'm going to take cards curds takes two okay and that goes down and I don't discard any cards so your turn my turn's pretty easy I'm I don't have two animals I can play so I'm not gonna boost this to five I will play the Lesser bird of paradise it cause that was a flower I know right yeah that's a greater yeah that's the real word of paradise the Lesser this is the Lesser um it cost me 12 because of the Australia Partners or discount nice eight back please I get five appeal to 12. and the bonus is a free kiosk or Pavilion which I will place right here to make some money and I'm flipping the enclosure unfortunately it's a size one animal that I'm using a size two enclosure but I'll live with that sure and that's my turn I place the one animal card down I'm going to build a three enclosure other than the they're all the same size they're all they're listed here on your menu okay I'm sorry so it is um a little triangle so that's gonna cost me two six six Monies let's pay for it first then I will place it here is uh six and I need to be there and there oh good spot fantastic did you cover any bonuses no I did not okay okay that was my turn okay I guess I'll take the sponsors so I'm gonna gain four goes to here again in x I get four which would be five if I put that back I guess that's the end of my turn and then we you got your X token already and we processed the break discard down to three cards or five if you're linking for your card hand University the pain hey am I the only I have three I I got lucky no I have my deck yeah I've got the perfect four cards where I want it to be okay uh I will get rid of this one all right that's all right we discard any temporary tokens there are none out here we reset the association board put out new zoos and new universities as well as taking back our workers you are red I am blue you are yellow discard these first two cards and Slide the rest down putting out Global breeding program that is a cute little hippopotamus oh this one lets you this is a pretty good one you need have two partners used to play it but you get two essentially wild tokens here that qualify for these types of things so like you could take the five award if you only had four uh you know Australia symbols and a geological this is a conservation project so again you would you play this but you have to have qualified for it and put a cube on it to put it up there this one is based on rocks symbols on your cards which looks like none of us have actually played we've all played water but no rocks so far we have no rock we don't rock we are swingers all right now we take income uh let's start with Lincoln since he started the Break um he's at 12 money on this track no kiosks no sponsorship income no Cube income so 12. this is a little purple hands on your cards right they would mostly be on sponsors and all right it's something real simple for now it gets more complicated as the game goes on I get 13 15 because I have a kiosk that collects two dollars and Nikki gets nine no kiosks no cards no okay yes pick one and give her ten that's income it's pretty simple the first couple times and then the sixth thing is this goes back to The Coffee Cup start place I'm gonna do a cards action move the break thank you good good call and I will just draw two cards because none of these are that amazing to take yet right now yep it's a Bolivian red howler I mean hey I'm into this communication guy I just don't have the upgraded uh card to take him yet yeah communication guy don't don't mock communication guy all right are you done uh oh sorry uh I took my two cards I don't have to discard I am done okay I am going to get an animal here I am at level three so it's only one animal I am gonna do the Japanese macaque macaque um he is 18 but I get a three discount correct correct so 15 he's not a small animal uh I need to give you two tens I don't have enough ones all right all right and then let me turn over my enclosure he is now in here he is by water which is his little environment requirement oh that was the other requirements and then I'm doing the blue because this is an interactive so I get to just draw two cards and I go seven up seven nice one two three four five six seven right in between this nice comfy family nice all right and that's also a primate for the primary that is you wanted that previously all right move your move your animals hahaha I'm sorry I wasn't supposed to notice that I know yeah even though it's all out there for you to look at oh we didn't refill yep I did that how can I send my child to hand limit University I know that's an important one to have um hmm well I think I'm going to do the association I think I wanted Zoo Association so I'm going to take a European one and uh that is my turn I didn't slide it down but I will now I'm knocking on my other things around I am going to Association for well my association's a power five I guess I'm gonna do it I am going to go to Power five and place a cube on the Australia card even though even though I could get to the higher levels I want to do it now here okay yes so I think I'm gonna do the snap one okay so first of all level two I get two conservation points which lets me upgrade a card or take an association worker I think I'm going to take the association worker and from the bottom thank you I love to do that from the top it's just so close and easy and I also get to snap a card because that's the reward right here so I'm gonna snap This Global breeding course card shifts this down this goes here and my Association that is a greater Ria okay which is a five appeal bird it's just a very very plain American bird no no huge bonuses and I'm done okay I have a question yes I have a sponsor card that allows me supposedly to play one of those the special enclosure tiles yes but I am not upgraded on my build action I don't think it's related to that yeah just just it it just happens with the sponsor card because it's on the sponsor all right then that will be my turn right now do it I am playing this sponsor card it is a sea turtle tank um it lets me immediately do the sea turtle specials it has no prerequisites no prerequisites and then each time I play a reptile icon to my Zoo you may sell up to two cards from your hand for uh for four each okay and then play I get to place it has to go next to water that's it I think I see a really nice spot there's a really nice spot right here if I can rotate it correctly oh yeah these two that's a nice that's a nice spot right and I gain an X for covering that up and X okay and move your sponsor card and then I am done that was my turn okay I'm gonna build and um I'm going to build a two which cost me four and I'll build it here and I'll slide remember to slide something down [Music] um to one if I would like um [Music] and then I'm going to build a second one because of my engineers oh yeah it'll also cost me four such a good card I love it I wish I had it hmm what do I need on my stuff I'll build here that will give me 10 okay and that's four for that building and that is my turn I will also build I am going to build a regular size five enclosure wow that's big I know and I'm gonna put it down here I think it's gonna cover an X token and a card draw you can either go next to water or Rock let me check something I don't need either one of those so I suppose it will go I guess it doesn't matter I need an X token please and I get to draw a card which can be from the deck or it can be this one because that's my reputation range I guess I'll just take from the deck because well that is a primate for the primate thing and I'll take this guy okay oh wait it costs an extra dollar yeah it's better than a random card here's a dollar okay thank you no not for you okay uh I took all my stuff I got my X token yeah you can shift those down all my cards going down and the new card is a white stork he's pretty cheap he's from Europe and he does he comes with one of these times two multipliers well that's not so he lets you do a double action at some later Point hmm okay I'm gonna take my Association acts action go to number four here take the card limit one and then I move one up on the reputation look that is my turn okay I am reputationless well so far you're a small suit it takes time gaining trust I'm gonna do the animals action um I'm going to bring in these scarlet macaw it does not actually go in the bird Pavilion even though it would be fun um it doesn't get along it does it's it's very it's posturing it's going to be 16 which is expensive and uh it says I can do up to three times I can place one free kioska Pavilion I absolutely should take advantage of that that's great yeah well flipping enclosure and I'm gonna do this one here you are yellow for four appeal yep and yeah three kiosks or Pavilions for free and that obviously breaks the normal build rules you can build three of the same thing if you want wow really interesting okay well I mean you have obviously the kiosks have to still be spaced right in the normal well I want to put that here that's a great spot for one and then I'm going to put another one here in the hopes that that will become occupado you would think and then I will do uh I'm gonna try a pavilion and draw a card and a pavilion is one appeal oh yeah and I can either take one from the deck or one of the ones that are available there with one or two extra money right I'll pay two to take that one and I don't think I'm going to take that action to slide a card to number one all right yeah I think that card is great that's basically like a whole extra turn when you play it yeah and our new card did you shift your cards for the term I did not we have king vulture in slot six you need three birds already in your uh Zoo to play him and he's got a cool Scavenging the discard pile Oh and it's my turn I gotta figure out what to do I'm gonna play Association again because I have another Association worker I'm going to boost it to power 3 with my X token and I'm going to take another partner Zoo which would be this orangey America's one and I get to upgrade a card for covering that yellow Pentagon and I am going to upgrade upgrade I think I'm gonna upgrade Association even though it's moving down to slot one and I won't be able to use it for a while and I am done all right two I don't have any more little places for my animals so I have to build this turn it is in number four I would like to build a do you even have the money for it or three enclosure um you do have the money for that yes I do so I will build a three enclosure that's going to cost me six five six let me make sure my thing doesn't have any requirements requirements it does not and this is going to cover up the drawing card either from here or from the thing unfortunately there's nothing there that I personally can make work for me from my range sure somewhere over here maybe these look good but yeah you're going to take a card from the deck there we go done let me slide my stuff around and I think I'm going to take the sponsor action which just gives me four coins moves this up four one two three four um so let me take the four coins I'll just make that five and it is your turn Erin I'm also going to do a sponsor action it's at Power five but I only need four oh you're not doing that no not that one sorry I'm playing the card I have a global breeding program needs two partner zoos so this one I put two cubes on it and they're only good for the base conservation not the cards at the top of the a board there they're only good for these starting ones but they're essentially wild cubes so like if with one primate I could play on the two primates right right and get it and get the award yeah and uh and it also gives me end game points for if I have five projects supported I get an in-game conservation point and that is my turn okay everything I want to do does not work out money wise do not qualify for me do not pass Zoo how many cards do you have four I could do a card snap action do I really I did the cards here right now are not anything I'm interested in there's no clear the board actually yeah that would be nice um darn it what was the weird pass action you take an X and then shift one of your cards as if you used it ah that just doesn't help me at all I mean well you're low on money I was gonna say you could always build something because it fills up your board I'm gonna just you know what just move the break one two I'm doing the card action and then I'm at five and instead of taking a snap I'm gonna do the draw three and discard one okay are you taking all from the deck or do you want to I want to draw all from there I'm not having good luck doing it that way either that's why I wanted this to be pretty so let's see here bad I hope you're kidding me um hey look at that guy look at that guy I want to keep all of those actually that one's pretty bad we will discard this one does not work for me done shifting cards I'm going to take the animals action and I'm going to do the common European Adder that I had picked up the last one yeah and that has I have a European uh I have a European Zoo Association so that will reduce three so it's seven and that gives me two appeal yep and then let me shift this and then for my bonus action granted to me by the common European Adder yeah yeah I'm going to take cards which bumps the breakdown too yeah I draw three four snap or snap anything if you draw three you also have to discard one which is maybe not great maybe it's fan maybe it's great because you have this card that you're never gonna play right well the downer is is I we're definitely getting close we are getting very close to it so I think that's going to happen um and I don't know that I want to take three well actually two means I dump one ultimately um I'll take the talented Communicator yeah what does he do it gives you one of these workers but you have to have upgraded this sponsor place that's nice though yeah I was actually getting ready to try and take that and we have a breeding program in spot six it's the same thing um hippos you got the only difference is you need to research instead of two partner zoos to play it oh two cubes on it and it's only for the base conservation projects you really don't want to let me get both of those or else I'm going to get like super high levels of all of that yeah none of us have any research yet right well there's been nothing at least for me I mean they're on those universities but yeah sure me either there hasn't been there are many more important things all right well I don't want to take cards because I'm already over my hand limit and it would force the break and that animal is super expensive so I'm gonna build some buildios what are buildios they're like buildings you put animals in oh okay they're patios don't question my languages I'm gonna build a level three enclosure it cost me six all that matters is all that matters is what I cover and it's not going to be that and it's not going to be that I might not cover anything no I'm going to go here and cover up this card draw even though I just said card draw is the thing I don't want to do Let's see we got Golden Eagle oh yeah that's huge crazy this one's pretty cheap draw one card from the and there's the g a lot yeah they're all terrible I think I'm not gonna cover anything just because I literally don't want to get a card right now I paid I built I'm done because I'm gonna have to discard at the break okay all right uh sponsor action and I'm gonna play an x on it to up it to five nice yeah you can take that I am playing the free range New World monkeys uh that sounds pretty fun it is and that's it looks like a fun monkey he does um all right so my immediate and and it's a play Under the 25 Mark so I want to get it out uh gain one for each connected space with a placement bonus what does that mean so it's kind of showing you here on the on the little icon it's like connected means you've built next to it so you have two of those right here oh okay so you're getting two appeal nice to 13. and then an end thing you can earn a conservation point for every two isolated spaces with a placement bonus so right kind of like my thing it's you either fill it all in and get your seven appeal or you get a conservation point for every two isolated means there's nothing next to it you didn't build anything else to it so like if you built all this and left these too isolated you get a conservation Point okay or if you built everything but next to those two so the ones with these icons on them okay and they have to have nothing built next to them sweet but he gets me a another primate primate that's actually pretty good um dude that was my whole turn okay I'm going to take the sponsors action don't have anything to play because it can't do it yet but that puts us to here wow take another one of these for me I gained three income and that is that I think I was gonna have to do that if you didn't I needed the money as well all right that's the turn oh discarding I'm gonna have to do some I'm gonna discard that well that's why I also played that one I figured we were there I have five and I got the Universe I have six and I have to discard three oh my gosh that's painful it kind of is but at least one of them was really obvious this one's got to go like yeah that one is just has been sitting in my can since the beginning of the game and requires a million microscopes so it was not really a great job I haven't seen a lot of cards that have additional microscopes here well because you can only part three several of them are from that I mean three is going to cover most of them really I don't and maybe we just haven't drawn the sponsorship cards that have them there's got to be right yeah they do they do part of it part of this game is Just which cards come out well I can only keep one of these in that one I can't play and that one I can't play yet so there you go all right everyone's good with their hand no one's got any tokens to discard reset the board put out the zoos and universities you get two guys back one clear two cards from the front and we put out a cheetah his Sprint ability is draw three cards from the deck at the end of when you play him and a broad snouted Cayman which snaps one card from the display oh like immediately and that's his bonus for playing him yeah all right and that was this and now income Lincoln triggered it again he's at 16 money plus kiosks this one has three full buildings next to it for 19. and that one's 20. so one more so 20 total uh no sponsorship income no Cube income I have 13 14 15 plus I get to snap a card now as an income so the stork has a build multiplier which I kind of like this breeding program I already said would be really good but I don't have the microscopes for it and the Cheetahs I think I'm gonna take the stork okay if there is comes a time when we multiple players have snap as part of their income you go and turn order from the person who triggered the break so okay Lincoln would get to snap a card then I would then you would and only then would we refill this display if we were all snapping cards all right Nikki gets 14 no kiosks nothing nothing here nothing just fourteen yeah mm-hmm all right uh that was income and then this goes back to three and what were the two new ones but uh we did this one there was only one year because I snapped Recess Monkey Park it's a sponsorship card that places this four shaped building and it's every time you play a primate icon because we're trying to play fireman icons you get an X token that's it also it also is a primate icon on its own so I didn't make this clear if you play a card like this that says every time you play a primate you get a dollar this counts for that so the card the icon on the card always counts for things like that so you would get one immediately when you play that card and I think Lincoln has made it my turn so I need to do something I will play two animals I think I think I can afford this uh the Bolivian red howler I do get a discount so he only costs nine uh he needs to go in a size three enclosure so I'll flip that I need some space he's a big monkey look at it look at this nice orange Coke he's crying beautiful he is a primate he gives me six appeal and aft this one says boost cards after finishing the current action so that means I need to finish my whole action and then I get to put my cards on one or five so I'm going to wait until I play my second animal which is the stork I just snapped he can go in space four or a bird aviary which I obviously don't have yet I need to pay nine full dollars for him because I don't have in a Europe Zoo he is takes size four so I'm gonna flip my five enclosure thank you and he gives me four appeal and I get a times two multiplier on my build card which is unfortunately down here so now that I'm done I move animals to one and I'm done but then I'll take the bonus from the howler and I will move cards down to one because I don't need to draw I'm a big hand of cards right now I think and that's that and I'm poor again all right I'm gonna do my uh Association action and I am going to go here take this University which is going to let me upgrade a card right I wanted to upgrade my build and then I can move two up this track one two that gets me to six and gets me upgrades another another upgrade what was the back of this no I I'm gonna upgrade cards cards card I'm scared she upgraded two cards at once wow yeah how did that happen uh one from the University here and one from the reputation job here right um that's it I can't snap your Association card down to one right so this all goes this way that is my turn okay I'm gonna do the association I'm gonna go here I'm gonna do the sea cave oh that allows me to um release one reptile Into the Wild and I'm going to put this common European Adder it's going to bump me back unfortunately on my okay uh on my yep on my appeal by two yep and it is only worth two uh it's only worth one so it's below two so I get to take one Cube you know I didn't actually flip this okay right because you had four animals because I had four animals but you know I actually I'm gonna flip this one which I suppose I am required to do you are when you release an animal you and you must by the way you flip the smallest possible enclosure that qualifies if it goes in the reptile house or the birdie area or the petting zoo you must take a key okay there but otherwise you never have to keep track of like exactly which animal is where it doesn't really matter and I'm going to take the snap one to put on here okay I get to bump up three one two three and one yeah on your rep rotation reputation that's cool too and then and you get to immediately snap a card I do get to snap a card is there anything that I particularly particularly would like um that is the question I'm going to take the breeding program yeah that's a pretty good one ah that one yeah I know look that's why I was thinking it's cute look at this little red panda guy on wazza small animals nice that's one that one is when you play only small animals with the animals action you get to play another small animal and then take a small animal from last play okay and you get money for the small animals you already have when you play it so Lincoln's got all small animals you have one small animal and I have two small animals and then for my upgrade I'm gonna flip my sponsors card okay and then I slide all this down of course yeah slide this forward okay Aaron it's your turn all right I'm also doing Association at Power five so here's my worker he's gonna go to Power five [Music] and I'm gonna place this Cube on the habitat diversity card okay the middle thing yeah the middle one I have um Australia and Americas and Europe and then this counts as my wild fourth continent so I get that middle spot and I'm taking that I get five dollars immediately and on future incomes and I get a choice here so I'm going to take three cards I can take this one but I don't particularly care for it I'm gonna take three cards off the top of the deck and I'm gonna make a donation for two money in addition because I have the upgraded excuse me sorry uh Association card okay that's one more conservation thank you and I'll move my Association down and I am done I am going to actually do the card action so that moves the break up too okay and then I'm in location I'm at three I'm actually gonna snap a card yeah upgraded cardability yeah but trying to decide between which there's two of them I kind of like up there yeah there's there's some good stuff yeah I think I need to take the monkey one this one yeah card ongfong National Park this is releasing animals with an Asia icon oh does anyone have that I do not have I do I have two but I was working with them for different reasons we are the more conservation points they get you so you have three you could get four conservation points for releasing it okay um that was it all right yep you snapped I did so I'm gonna build a three for sure and I'll do that right here it's gonna cost me six fourteen make that 15 so it's a little easier and then um and then I will build another three might as well you got the money for all that he's look at his money he's Rich well not rich I mean compared to me and I covered two on my reputation oh yeah oh nice then um I'll upgrade my Association wait what do I need first probably need build because well I got rid of a reptile darn it um unless you got Birds going on you need it flipped for birds but you also you know need to flip it to get higher on this track and so I'll upgrade my Association and that is the end of my turn I will do sponsors at Power five and I have a five she's the expert on Australia okay so every time I play an Australia icon into my Zoo I'm a place including this card has an Australia icon onto it I may place a card for my hand under this card to gain to appeal that is called the pouch ability apparently she's a kangaroo not a human being so I get two appeal also immediately when I play this card I get one appeal for every Australia icon I have sweet which is for more and that moves sponsors down to one but that's it she's no end game points or anything she's just she just makes Appeals and I am dust I'm gonna build I'm gonna bump it to five so I can build a reptile house so here's 10. here give me the X2 oh yeah I I just put it on there to show that it was bumped here you go reptile house can I make it fit there well I should say legally fit makeup yeah right um no but I want my reptile House near Stone water does that work she does have oh she's got a thing that can go right in it if it's near Water right um is this considered part of no no no only was printed on the board that way okay it gives you ten dollars those almost should be water and a knock right no maybe a different symbol they're only for that animal right right okay so uh this is a good one that gets me near the water I get 10 money closing it up and then and then a card draw a card draw which can be within your reputation range or from the deck okay and should I do that right now or should I move the router do this first so okay the Chinese water dragon you're gonna put in in there so this is zero though so that doesn't mean no cubes no cue but you do get to flip over the one space uh enclosure that you have that is this but yeah he takes up zero cubes in your reptile house which is kind of nice uh cost plain small animals just making sure I have all of my Association each time any powers okay nothing got triggered there you I flipped I moved him but he doesn't do a cube and then I can get a draw a card or get a card from the range I'm gonna have to pay you do have to pay one two or three if you take from the board oh I'm not high enough I kind of wanted that dude I wanted that dude yeah all right uh how about I I draw a card then okay and ugh okay um then I'm done okay that's hilarious it's actually hilarious is it hilarious yes it sure is I'm gonna do the uh um sponsors and I'm gonna spend two to get it up bumped up and I'm gonna do The Talented communicator which allows me to um uh hire another um associate oh yeah yeah oh yeah that is that I'm doing my double build action even though I'm very poor and it's going to be pretty inefficient so I am going to build I'm going to build a kiosk for two dollars and I will place that here oh that that's too close to that kiosk but I can put one over here that gets me five dollars I need that five dollars well actually give me hold on I'll tell you what to give me a second because then I can take a second build action with this times two and I have a total of ten dollars and I actually that's pretty good I need to build something big so I'm gonna spend all my ten dollars okay to build a five yep I need another five and that will go here to draw two cards that's the only place it fits because I haven't upgraded my constructions yet I literally cannot put it anywhere else put it here for one card draw I'm actually gonna do that I'm gonna put it here for one card draw and I have no money so I will draw this card so that was my two builds this moves down here and I'm done okay okay actually it's weird uh it's gonna cost me too and I'm just doing a kiosk kiosk all right I'm put it here yep and that counts correct because the turtle enclosure is also a thing okay so two live buildings so that's my turn okay I'm going to do the association action I think I am going to spend one of the X's to go to four and then [Music] um I will take the two [Music] um research tile lets me upgrade a card and I'll upgrade my cards and then that's my chart I'm going to take the cards action I am going to boost it to five yeah and just snap this vulture vulture that's kind of works with vulture and all does it I don't know they snap do they oh okay well I snapped him before he gets Snappy all right we've got Eurasian brown bear okay this is 20 money he puts a multiplier on your Association card and he hires an association worker full-throated ability so he needs a five next to water and he has eight appeal he's very expensive and you need to have upgraded your animals card boy he has a lot of prerequisites oh my goodness he's very very needy all right yeah technique you gotta know how to care for him yeah all right okay I'm gonna do the animals gotta fill up that reptile cage uh oh I'm sorry I did not do break two that was the first one sorry sorry sorry my bad okay it's a kimono dragon he is 14 but and I do have the pre-requisites uh I haven't done so it's 11. you go can I get four back thank you he takes up two spaces my reptile house and I gained one appeal for each Asian icon in all zoos so oh all yeah you have four I have zero I have zero so you get four plus the two on his card is six you also can sell a card from your hand because you played a reptile played a reptile from your sea turtle four yep I will um do two and get eight give me two okay there you go 10. that was my turn I cannot build another animal well no you can't you're welcome you could because you just got ten dollars robot robot do you have anything that costs 12 or less um no by one dollar oh buy one dollar I'm gonna do the sloth bear sloth bear cost 14 which is everything I have oh it is Asia unfortunately one turnout nice and then um I will put it in this enclosure here I guess it doesn't need anything no no okay and then that gives me six appeals six okay and there we go that goes back and then I can bump my Association up to five if or to one that's an after action boost yep that was from this here um where is associated it's at two I'm gonna put it over here I bet you're gonna put it to five yep okay speaking of Association mine is at four and I'm gonna go to five hand University yeah total sense yeah I got it too and that gets me my first reputation move of the entire game all right yay look at me my little zoos get going places [Laughter] all right oh do not have the money to make a donation however I do know that's an option thank you goodbye thank you good night I wish I could do it love to have the money I'm gonna play the sponsor action I'm gonna play the rhesus monkey park each time you play a primate icon into your zoo you gain One X token nice thank you are there monkeys that need to be around water I do have one monkey that needs to be oh I'm not moving anything that's not that kind of thing okay so I think it's gonna fit up here nice that gives me an X and five dollars for covering that thank you and my ex and um I don't think there's any else anything else that goes on with that right now although you played a primate doesn't that give you something um no I guess it doesn't no this is immediate and that's ending and that's reptile that's a reptile and this is small animals which hasn't worked out for me this time maybe also the the so you've got three I do for the other next step is four though so yeah I need to get another person someone take the first one or you can take the two two yeah I'm working gotcha you're working towards the floor working okay that was my turn so sponsors goes to one oh and you get an X token right now because of this when you play a primary token you count this one on the card see I was only because I covered that that was it I was thinking two x's I'm gonna take cards I was man that break token has not moved a lot we got we are all having a lot of cards and not moving it along I could take three and discard one or I can snap a card I kind of feel like I'm not seeing a lot of small animals and I would like another one so I will snap that one and that is my turn new card bamboo forest this is release herbivores into the wild has anybody got a voice I have one I've got uh platypus herbivore and that's it that's the interesting it's very expensive but maybe I'll be able to do that eventually well all right I'm gonna try something crazy crazy I'm gonna play my sponsors card with six power to hit the brake one two three four five six I get one of those right back and I get six money okay and that's my turn and then we go to the break all right comes the breaks that's just the best thing I can do all right I believe we're all at five hand limit now so I don't have to discard probably no one does I only have three cards so no one's got a times two on their cards clear the board looks like no one took zoos so we just put universities back okay red and red yellow and yellow okay income I'm sorry nope cards are first these two go away oh somebody wanted that cake I surely did I messed it up for you goodbye but there was something on there that made me go oh my goodness we have a frilled lizard he draws a card from the deck he can go in a reptile house you know and a rock monitor two lizards that like rocks and can go in reptile houses and reptiles are able to be released up there yes all right release the rest my income is first I'm at 19 20 22 27 dollars and the snapped card I think I'm gonna snap that bamboo forest where'd that go oh up there I moved to here uh all that small animals card is real good for Lincoln this one or that yeah but I'm not gonna steal it from him the lizards are good for you you've got all that reptiles but I got to take this one that's the best one for me Nikki's income is 16 you do now have a kiosk which makes it 18. that's it nothing else here's two take two thank you Lincoln has 17 and no uh sorry 18 19 20 nice round 20. yeah you're right I didn't see that double 21. nice round 21 Blackjack sir how would you like your winnings and then you get to snap a card from what's left out there the small animals one yeah that's pretty good and we'll put two more cards out here we've got spotted hyena compound another thing Nikki's Gonna Fill Up her board pretty soon with these special things it's when you play a predator icon you reveal the topmost X cards of the deck x equals the number of your Predator icons oh my God and you take one of your choice and discard the others holy moly the hyena compound must go next to rocks and a savannah wow we're getting all the release cards now which is a release Predators conservation project okay I triggered that break yes you did that was all the incomes this goes back here and it's Nikki's turn oh my gosh there's so many things now I know a lot of new stuff to think about all right and you got your worker back okay I would [Music] where am I I'm on power four I'm gonna snap the ongfang national park release thing and that is gonna be uh animals with the Asian uh icon yes so and are you are you but you both have them and I do not that's gonna be your turn taking that and we'll put out one new card was a special assignment this is a special sponsorship card cost six you choose either large or small animals and then you cannot play the other type so you can only play two size or less or four size or more animals and you get an appeal bonus based on the ones that you play from then on you also get an appeal bonus uh oh you get a you get a one free like draw from the deck as well but I really specialize oh and you need six research or no six reputations sorry to play it six reputation doesn't seem unrealistic to you guys it seems a lot to me okay all right Lincoln's turn okay I'm gonna um do an association and I will do the oh go here and um I will take the Americas which lets me upgrade a card I will upgrade my build [Music] um and then I will do the second one that I have because of my upgraded Association and I will take another two bump here and um it's five right five for a donation yeah I'll pay five okay and take one of these cubes from here put it on there for the uh this one here and then I uh go up one for that and I'm done I'm gonna build uh it's at Power four but I'm gonna build uh level two enclosure for four dollars I need one change and I'm going to cover this two reputation get up to more reputation and that's it for now before now well you know I do what I can do yeah this hopefully this is gonna work I am getting an animal so that's that I'm at level three it's one I'm going to play the sun bear which is 16 but really only 13. yep um he's a little bear he only goes in a tooth he's cute sun bears like are little I think I think they are yeah okay then I go five up flipping enclosure that he lives in oh he lives here you do get five appeal to 24. then um the action is after first finish your normal card move then you do that's all of it so I will move this to the beginning of the line and then his special thing for playing him gets me an association action so what I want to do is go to the five here yeah and I would like to do a release on my unsung National Park which is released when animal with an Asian icon into the wild okay I am going to release the bear so I moved down five he just moved in right well he just got here all right everybody you move five appeals he needs to be free that's true he does want to be free flip over the enclosure you just put him in yes you go back photo pill you get a reputation for playing that card and it's gonna go he was only a two they're tiny yes so I pick from here yes I'm gonna get another Association person yes so that's immediate from the bottom from the bottom I always want to take it from the top and I put it here I get three tools and then I get the one reputation you just I gave you that one you now you get a card upgrade or another worker another worker yeah another worker all right okay and do you want to donate for five dollars for another conservation point not right now okay move your Association card down because you took that action oh I take it even when it was you did the action at Power five and just like you triggered a whole turn okay and the sun bear goes in the discard and I that's oh you know I didn't know that either whatever it's probably just trying to move yeah there are very few search the discard pile okay okay so okay I'm gonna do the animals and I will bring in the greater Rhea what is that yeah it's like an ostrich or something I was one of the ones from here yeah and it's gonna cost me uh nine which is great because they have the North America association with the North American zoo I guess that's San Diego um I gained five on my uh appeals yeah and I draw one card from here and you flip it in French that it fits in and then I put this yeah I'll put this here and I'll flip it's a two so it's going to be a need to need to be in the three and it's your turn here I am doing Association I am boosting it to four to take a university which one five the word Double Hat okay now I already have the five okay yeah Double Hat Oh you mean the two hat the two hat correct okay it's not actually a doubleheader too and you get to that's why I need to actually and it's going to give me another upgrade from the University that's what I need I need to upgrade my I'm worried about you you're doing two upgrades in one turn uh I but I've had this I just said Nikki I'm only repeating what you said but like look I have one card up here you have four I've been terrified about this whole thing I'm upgrading my build card and I don't actually know the second one I think it's gonna be sponsors or is it cards I think it's sponsors so I went up to I got the university I did that you're there and I guess I'll do the donation now it's five dollars five Monies to fill up one and I need to place a cube over here oh yeah and that's Association done Association don't have been making the association bans jokes yet I'm gonna do the card action and um I'm gonna snap this reptile okay he goes home with you that's my whole turn and our new card alpaca he goes in a petting zoo wow we have not seen a lot of pettings we haven't used this game in fact that's the first one I've seen no one's built a petting zoo Lincoln's turn it is interesting that we haven't gotten any I mean it is a large deck of cards we just shuffled them all to the back half somehow I'm gonna take cards we didn't actually bump Nikki for that for two and I'm gonna bump it for two as well and then I'm gonna snap I think the Savannah card yeah Predators you got the Predators I don't have predators do I have one I have two yeah he's then that's a good one to snap the new card is a barn owl he's got perception four draw four from the deck and keep two oh nice and he's a fairly cheap he can't go in the bird sanctuary bird aviary hey man he's a very that would make me go to the zoo what it's zero it's zero yeah I think bonus is based on the other ones in there animals are like yeah you have an alpaca I'm there you're in there's an alpaca we drove past alpacas in Dallas near yes Madness Comics I love when we go past that alpaca place okay I am going to play an animal I think just one but let's see I'm gonna do this first because it is a Australia icon I'm going to tuck a card under my Australia expert for two appeal oh so I'm playing emu it costs 22 but that's 19 because of my Australia discount yeah emu Phillips uh I've had this card in my hand a long time um and I you have to have two of us yeah that's why you were holding off well and the 22 frankly uh so I have a five for him to live in I get seven appeal his bonus is if I have room you don't actually have to have upgraded your build card but if you have room and I needed the spaces this is why I had to upgrade it you immediately can build for free a large bird aviary nice so I'm going to build this here and take a five dollar bonus for covering that five dollar space nice yeah it's a free bird and because I built the large bird aviary I will move my white stork into that space which frees up a five cool and places one cube in the AV no I didn't slide my thing down here when I took the cards that last time that's called peacocking that's special ability so uh the Emu is peacocking and I have placed my animals I do not have a second animal well actually I've oh I do can I play this do you have the money that's my thing I actually do I'm gonna play this I'm gonna play king vulture I am a king because I now playing the first animal got me the Aviary where the king vulture can now be played and I have the partner Zoo which makes him cost nine instead of 12. all right yeah don't forget to go nine up the track I won't that's why did you get it for the email I got the seven for the Emu and the two for the Australia thing so nine more makes 46. okay I need to put one more cube in the bird aviary and I I obviously have three bird symbols to place him Scavenging five oh I have to shuffle the discard pile and draw five random cards and then I can keep one I choose one okay so I've already moved my card you can take your turn I'm just gonna take five and then choose all right cool I am going to build uh that's gonna cost me four because I'm gonna just build a two uh habitat um so two habitat a maximum size total of X could I get a two habitat oh then it's empty so I am going to cover that and I'm going to snap or am I going to just draw a card I think I need to snap this guy okay and I still have some money build one or more buildings let's do a is that three one two yes um here's two for a another that's correct I believe okay that is my turn what did we get out new yeah sponsorship elephants income you gain three six or nine money for having one three or five herbivore icons in your zoo I believe none of us have done that very much I have that one platypus herbivore and that's it I'm not so it would be a lot of money if you were herbivore specialized okay you also get some appeal based on your herbivores right away but again just not that great for any of us right now I'm gonna build and build at least one kiosk kiosk white kiosk got some other things elsewhere and then um and then I will build one two for four gives me a X token and that is my turn doing sponsors at Power four because it's upgraded I could actually play five but I only have a four in my hand I'm playing migration recording oh I can't oh I can I have one microscope from this one University I just got um I get an X token immediately now every time I release an animal into the wild I get one additional conservation point and I can break the rule of putting one Cube on a card and release more than one animal Into the Wild on oh just on release okay and that is my turn all right I'm gonna do the association action I uh let's see I'm at three so I'm gonna go here and take the Africa that gets me an upgrade I'm gonna upgrade my animals like that and that is it for my turn I'm going to do the sponsors here at five and I'm gonna do the waza small animals program uh it's each time you play only small animals in the animals action you may play play one further small animal from your hand at the normal cost after that take one small animal from the display if it is if it's available so um it also gives me an income right now for any small animals that I have I have four so it gives me eight and uh I think I can put this here and I kind of need to remember it these are kind of weird yeah because if it's got like a permanent power you kind of need to keep it and that is the end of my turns all right I'm doing cards at five which advances the break two do I Snap this alpaca and hope that more petting zoo cards come up or do I just take cards off does it count as a small one it does count as a small one for your purposes yes all petting zoo animals are technically small well Nikki I'd love for you to come to my alpaca Zoo but I'm just gonna risk drawing off the deck see what I get oh wow I should have taken the alpaca tell me all right I need to discard one but you can go uh okay I am going to add an animal uh this is my frilled lizard he's frilly that is gonna cost me 12. I have no discount here you go thank you and uh that is he is two for one Cube one cube in my lizard enclosure and I go up five one two three four five then I move my cards and I draw a card for the the action that yes all right okay I'm gonna play cards who is it Forward two I'm going to snap this card right here and that is that what did you snap just out of here it's a barnel okay and it's replaced with side entrance this one is a special building it must go on a border spaces around the edge of your zoo and it pays five appeal at the end of the game if you have completely covered your map it pays two dollars per building it touches it's like a double kiosk basically it's good if you can fit it next to a bunch of things all right I am too poor to build so I'm associating I am going to associate uh four using my X token to bump it to five I will be I believe I will be releasing an animal I will be releasing an Australian animal Into the Wild my hand is ready I'm gonna go I'm gonna go big I'm going releasing the Emu which cost me seven appeal back to 37 39 I get to reflip this five enclosure and discards but I get five conservation points yikes actually six because I have the migration recordings and I will place a cube I'm gonna take the 3x Cube I also get one yeah reputation for playing the card yep thank you and that was a four plus yeah it was a size five is the Giants two things you're gonna pick one of these and we also and we almost also yeah wow um well I've I've played it badly because oh that was easy for me I don't have the money to play a sponsorship card out of my hand yep but I'm gonna take the 3x tokens even though I can only hold two oh man I have I just got three now I'm maxed at five wow but I it's better than the five dollar oh wait if I take the five no I can't take the five dollars and do that um oh and we're choosing one of our final scoring cards right yes mine is fairly clear I'm doing this one and throwing away this yeah mine ended up pretty being pretty and that was and I and I don't have I could take the five dollars for a donation but no I'm gonna I'm gonna stick with mine I'm done I'm not donating with my Association Powers okay I am gonna sponsor at five I have to add an X to it because this is a six this is the baboon rock each time you play a primate icon into your zoo gain two on that traffic appeal so and this counts as a primate icon so you gain do appeal right now oh okay so you are blue blue to appeal and then the End Game bonus is if you have six primate icons in your zoo you get a conservation Point okay let's play it safe and put it next to a rock and a water cool I don't really maybe that's stupid to cover that up because you don't add animals in there anyway maybe can I go around here no that yeah yeah this is actually the only place that attaches and works okay and I covered nothing this goes away did I do all that I'm here right okay and I moved up on the tree okay done okay oh and you get an X token because you played a primary deck and into your zoo from this card oh that's considered the same okay it's an icon that triggers that you get that right back thrown my ex away I should have just kept it okay I'm gonna do animals uh and I'm gonna do the barn owl which I have the European icon so it's only gonna cost me nine which is everything I have okay I gained three yep one two three first thing is that this one allows me to I also have the Wasa small animals thing where I will take an additional one off the uh off the array if I uh would like but I also take four cards from the deck oh nice keep two and discard the others four I don't really need all those but think about it that's from the barn owls thing yeah nice and then um I need to get rid of two and then I also will take this one from the array all right it's the only small animal out there but you get it and we have a donkey okay there's the petting zoo animals that we missed yeah and I need to discard too I'm taking sponsors action it is at Power three which I will boost to five because it is upgraded that means I can play a card of level six from my hand and I'm gonna play Foreign Institute Foreign Institute gives me two reputation which unlocks a worker and uh that's actually as far as I can go on the reputation track unless I upgrade my cards card and I can't because I've actually upgraded all my cards and I skipped this ability here so I'm done on reputation that kind of stinks for me actually I gotta find other powers to do but Foreign Institute is a microscope um icon and I get one conservation point if I have all five continents in my zoo at the end of the game of which I have three right now so I need either more Partners zoos or more animals and if that's I'm done I move sponsors down to one I am going to build I am going to pay to four another kiosk okay and they're gonna go right upside down no right there I think that's a good spot and I can spend another two for a pavilion and that gets me one on this track right it's not that certainly does but filling in the space is almost the better staying right do I have another I don't so if I cover that it's a bad timing but I could go here and get five right let's do that thank you that is my turn okay I'm going to take the cards action that puts a 2 here gives me one of these yep and so I'll take a card from here hmm okay and that is the end of that and that stays where it is because it's already on one all right you got your X token okay we all have five hand limit I only have three cards yep I have a lot yes you do I have to discard uh four cards I think all right we still have no temporary tokens to discard those are fairly rare unless you're playing with the interactives we can reset this board we need two new zoos and one new University which is this one I will clear these two cards bye bye bear bye bear one two here are your Associates thank you for my associate workers we have a primate breeding program this one is the one of the ones where you can pick any space whether you want reputation or just conservation and really like this is the best space so the first person should go there you but you need a primate and a partner Zoo from the same continent so like you would need this plus the which I have Asia Zoo which you have and I have the America Zoo which I have Lincoln doesn't currently have any primates but so you need the primate and the partner Zoo but you're not releasing it you just have to have oh okay and we have native farm animals this is oh Max 25 we are all disqualified when playing this card so and it stays there though it just it'll it'll age off eventually but yeah it's just gonna kind of clog up our display for a while all right income Lincoln triggered so he gets 20. okay 22 for this kiosk 24 I think all his kiosks are worth two so that looks like 26 okay one two one two one two you don't get a pavilion no Pavilion account is that one you don't get the empty oh the empty space the empty enclosures okay um he doesn't have any money from these cards he and he gets us he gets the first snap off of the row okay he does not get any more money but he's got his 22 so we'll wait for him to snap in a second I get 22 this kiosk is worth two and this is one so that's oh this is also two so 26 this 5 makes 31. none of my cards have cash and then I will snap another card after after Lincoln does you get 31 31. 20. one thank you okay and then I take you take a card you start at 19. I do this one gets you two more for 21. this one gets you two more for 23 and this one gets you two more for 25 and you haven't uncovered that and none of these have money so 25 that's did better for myself do not stop card Lincoln snapped his card who's the primate [Music] do you take after before it does not go until everyone snaps their car okay I don't want that elephant thing I don't want that I think I might take the side entrance yep and now these all slide down we fill two more medical breakthrough wow you need four microscopes and it gives you it gives you an income of one conservation point and you immediately get to appeal for every Cube that you've cleared from your left's inside of your board yellow throated Martin is a cute little Weasley guy he's a Hunter predator he's like yeah it's like a it's like a badger kind of yeah weasel thing they don't you reveal the topmost card of the deck if it's an animal you keep it otherwise discard it and that's it it's just a very cheap but it's also a predator do we have Predator card out there we do not no we do not um Lincoln cause the break correct yes it's my turn so we reset the brake cup thank you you set the brick cup what am I gonna do I think I'm going to go so see it no my association's really low I am going to I'm going to do cards which break two or immediately but I'm gonna boost it to five so I can snap this medical breakthrough do I have how many microscopes do I have I have three so far so I only need one more to be able to play it and I boosted it and I'm done with the cards okay uh I'm doing gonna do Association I am going to boost it to five to put a guy here yeah I am going to do the primates here at four nice yeah so I believe I do I got one two three four yeah all right so I just um one two three four you pass this nice so first choose your Cube okay I think I need to get that five going on so that's there that goes up that went up that's an immediate five dollars plus income and now you can also have another another five or the double action on any card you like dang it dang it dang it which it only lasts until the next episode there's a long way to Linux break it only you only use it once but it's not in a danger of going away right away I think I need to try to do the double action it's a pretty good thing yeah off of there and I'll try to do the double action I don't have to assign it yet okay let's see some well my wish doesn't really work if I don't have enough money um for that you're doing pretty good on cost right now yeah we've got 35. yeah I was singing putting it on the animals but build wouldn't be bad either oh let's see if I can do animals that would be four animals in a turn is that possible yeah I don't that's why I'm like I don't know if I have the money to even do four animals in a turn uh okay that was awesome yes this is from my turn sorry I should have filled in this card well I was excited about my turn it's were you excited about a domestic goat you could have had a petting machine you could have been excited about it I didn't even build a petting zoo yet no one's child-friendly establishments no we're serious we're science Zoo business all right and you doubled up your animals card yeah okay okay I did I don't know about that decision I'm not sure about it I will build and I'm going to build a three um it's painful actually I'll just go over here let's flip it because it's empty it gives me five yes it does the total cost of building was six okay I had it anyway but I should have done this beforehand and that is my turn don't think I'm gonna well let me think do I need to build another three probably should take advantage of it I will do another three coins flying everywhere okay and that will go I don't have to go over here maybe I'll go here okay that was my turn you're in your turn I'm gonna build guess what I'm gonna build what are you gonna build an evil petting zoo that's finally um fantastic I am gonna build uh keep it all I need a pavilion at a kiosk as well please so I'm building for ten dollars three different buildings of a total size five I'm gonna put this petting zoo right here around the corner and let's see the Pavilion goes here I'm gonna get to do a card shift but the Pavilion gives me one appeal and the kiosk goes way down here in a terrible location but gives me an X token and I spent all the money the build goes all the way down to one I just built two I should have gotten X for that too and then after all that I covered that special one card room and I'm moving animals down to one okay move and done I'm going to do cards so the break moves too break break I'm at five there's actually nothing here I want so I will draw four and discard one now you remember because you're uh if there's nothing there there's nothing there yeah but you are upgraded cards so you can mix and match like you could take one from here and three from the deck if you wanted to uh there's nothing fair enough okay let's see if I can do any of these any good oh that's just not even gonna fly oh no oh no all right I will discard this one and we're done okay I'm gonna do the animals I'm gonna bring the Eurasian links to my Zoo um that cost me eight because I have the uh the Asian um icon Zoo affiliation and I gain two appeal and then one for each Europe icon in all zoos I have one two three four I have one which one was it that's zeros so I go another five another five to thirty six and did you flip a location for him to live in he will live doesn't really matter he'll live here well it does sort well they both bump my uh thing up there okay and then this resets or goes down to one your turn Aaron okay Association five I am playing I'm playing a card from hand and bumping sea cave out of the game okay I gotta look looking at you you played on primates and moved your own Association card down to one you were several turns away from releasing your reptile friend so I don't feel bad about it all right now I got reptile I don't want that's right hey you live with them It's ability for a pet I do yeah that's right I'm playing low mountain range and releasing a white stork uh he comes out of the bird sanctuary bird uh Aviary large bird aviary one Cube I lose four appeal and this card gets discarded no oh thank you boy how many was it five it is five I think you just moved me back I just moved you four okay there you go and you get one reputation did you get that yet and I get an extra one because I have migration recordings so two reputations and I get an extra one because I'm going to take the cube off of this thing I'm on the biggest one I do get a reputation but I can't take that because you're not upgraded because I'm not upgraded and I can't upgrade my account section all right so this is all about birdies but I think I will make a seven dollar donation and take one more conservation point 13 please or here's two and maybe 15. and that goes here there you go oops moving your hand that's the fun part and that's I could actually play more uh Association things but the only thing I could afford would be more reputation that I can't take okay so no I'm done well um well you didn't want to release that reptile anyway like like I love them all that's right that's right it's your baby yes okay uh these I don't have space for these I do I I'm gonna do the animal action I just need to decide how if there's an order that's going to be better but I don't think there is for my first animal I will do the Tasmanian devil I don't have a discount so he is going to cost 11. so so um so can I get changed this is supposed to be 11. okay that was change for this little guy he's gonna go in this enclosure here I can talk a card under this little guy to get to appeal so I am going to do that all right it's like here's the Australia yeah it's a pouch animal ability going to have room four it's possible no forget it um tucked tucked to appeal to appeal I also get four you also get four and four and looks like I get one reputation which gives you a worker okay boom which gives you two two conservation okay which is going to give you another reward but finish your animal finish the animals okay you got you flipped the thing you did they got the keys done all right are you playing another animal surely am all right let's just we won't forget about this thing though okay this is going to be the pygmy hit hippopotamus okay uh I forgot to take this the small animal discount for this guy so um that would be a three off okay of the eleven and then this is a my pygmy um hippopotamus that I'm going to play is also a small animal which I didn't even because I think a hippopotamus is huge so that's enough that's a six discount basically we can do and then minus Africa three for Africa so that's a nine discount on this 15. six so six yeah it's really nine but we forgot the other three yeah this one so yes we forgot this guy okay then he comes with uh six flipping account flip an enclosure of him to live in that must be next to water yes right there perfect but holding that spot forever okay all right six appeal you have the most appealing Zoo he's a sponsor but um I don't have any sponsor cards so that action just doesn't even happen after you finish all this you get free money and break from the sponsors you should still take that action okay we have this and this to remember from the end of my turn okay yes down all right and now you're taking the double extra animal yes but only one of them because I don't have the animals hold on I've got I've got another question for you sure you are taking the animals action at Power five yes I am twice so you should also take two reputation can I go there and yeah uh is your cards upgraded yes then yes which also gives you another card draw so there's three things we need to do this a card draw and another sponsor action after you play this after I play this last animal all right this is a turn yeah it is okay this guy is 12 minus this guy with three this guy is a rock monitor where's it going wait do you have a reptile I don't yes reptiles and it's near the Rocks so rock monitor reptile house he's a uh a minus three discount for Africa a minus three discount for small animal k appeal his appeal is five your zoo is very appealing and I can sell up to three cards from my hand um for for for each did you put a cube in the reptile house I didn't let's do that cube in reptile house all right he's good on a mess right now yes um I am going to sell this guy for four because I'm never gonna be able to fit them in my Zoo [Music] all right then I'm done okay this goes away because I used it sort of halfway as much as I could so okay yeah uh shift that shift right the sponsor action should come last because that's a total after your action is finished so is there a card out here that you would like to buy within your reputation range for one two three four five or would you like the top card of the deck top card of the deck you sure yeah because they're chickens I can't do yeah they're they're done okay okay and would you like five dollars or would you like to play a sponsorship card for as many dollars as it would normally um I will take the five dollars right five more dollars Monies okay now you've done everything except you now may take a sponsor's action for power five which is either play a card or take five money you have to do the money I don't have sponsorship cards I mean and you could just take an X token if you didn't want to move the break but that's probably no not that important so three five five five is that five and you could even boost it if you really wanted to but okay because it's X power oh all right and now you do move it down to one because you did that action okay and give her five dollars that is the turniest turn that was really a lot of crazy I'm done yes you are and everything is shifted I just have to organize my mess okay I'm gonna take the association and I'm going to spend three X to just bump it up to eight um oh nice so I will play see I'm going to release a um one one Predator I have one predator it brings me down two down two goes over here bumps this off these come down but it gives me it's a three so it gives me uh an additional four four give yourself one reputation for playing that card yep I get another uh one of these do you guess you get I spent five for that I have eight total um move it from the bottom yeah guy up to the top okay yeah okay flipping and closure that that animal was from or the reptile house so you don't have that no it's not it was a lion yeah you've got all kinds of threes okay and then choose a cube to place on the card and I'll take this here for three X's all right and then um I still have three value on here right because you spent eight power and then I'll take this one for the uh other placement okay and I'll go here gives me additional and this gives me two one two nice yep and I didn't do this yet no you can take five or sponsors and I'll just take the five and we're done we'll slide this down well I don't think I'm going to have much chance to use it but I'm gonna do cards so break two I'm just gonna do cards at Power four and draw two there are things that I need that I do not have and that one does not help but I don't have to discard any I'm done okay I'm gonna do the cards action so the break moves up too so you're gonna get an X token for triggering a break okay and I do this right now before we do any of that so I'm in location three I'm just going to take two cards yeah I just want to draw two okay and it's not nothing else okay come on yeah that was a kind of my card draw as well all right um that's it all right okay break time you got your X token everyone decides down to five I have to discard one I guess so uh this one's dumb I should have never taken it but both of those are hard to play tunic pink okay no one has tokens to discard refill the board give us our workers back only one I only played one yeah yeah elephant sponsors and waza assignment go away donkey goes to slot one new cards are Laughing Kookaburra he's an Australian bird that doesn't go in the Aviary and Northern Plains gray Langer he moves the break token forward all right that is the cards income Nikki triggered Nikki is at 24 income yeah 25 26 27 28 29.30 yeah that's it nope 35 35 and that's your only extra income 35. thank you all right no cards or anything for you Lincoln is at 21. 223 24 25 they're still that one's now worth three so 28 okay and then you get to snap a card I'll snap this card here okay I have 22 income I have five in kiosks and five here so 32 I have one conservation point and then I snap a card uh oops I think I guess I want this Northern gray Langer I do have a place to put it or do I want the bird I'm gonna take this one the jumping linger all right and then these slide down European bison okay so this is one of those rare ones with two Europe symbols yeah uh Lincoln would get a six dollar discount off of it because he has a European partner zoo and the veiled chameleon for your reptile house he gives he gives you a free snap card this the European bison gives you all sponsor cards from the display into your hand but there's only one and we can't play it yeah it could be great but right now it's nothing okay that was all the income back to here Nikki triggered it so it's a monster I will do the horse Fields tarsier Animal Action I'm sorry that uh gives me three upgrade in my um peel I gained two for this one two nice um gives you a card yep if there's one I want to do or one off the top and then uh it also jumps this four one two three four and I take four nice it was going to cost a lot of it cost me 11 so I will take 15 right I know let me just do that 11 first wait before I screw it eleven minus oh yeah so it's eight no it is eleven sorry you no I have oh no I don't have Africa no I have this you do I think the 11 was the raw so yeah grams 11 is the adjusted discount so that cost me 11. let me do that first um then I also gained four so I'll put that here with the five to get a five and then that will go here and then I will take I'll play another small animal and I'm going to do the uh Dusky Leaf monkey that's a size two it'll go here and it will cost me nine and then I can slide one thing to uh one I don't need cards so I'll push this one here I can take another card off the array right from the deck or pay to take it off here right yes yeah oh take this one here okay what'd you take I took the Laughing Kookaburra okay and we will put Out ringtailed Lemur he's a sunbather you may sell up to three cards from your hand for four dollars although none of us are short on money right now he's a six appeal uh African animal I'm gonna play Animals just one animal from my hand I'm gonna play anaconda I do have the partner Zoo so he just costs 10. I don't have a reptile house so I will flip a two enclosure next to rocks for him and he gives me six appeal 42. and instead of his interactive ability I get to after my current action place a different action card on level one so I will do this and then I will place build down on level one and I'm done okay I'm playing cards I'm going to put two x's on it to bring it up to um three two three I'm going to snap snap this guy yeah I needed to he's a good one done these go away and that is my turn okay I'll put out a new card Golden Lion Tamarin he's also clever which lets you put an action card at space one hey come on another monkey thing I mean all the primates are coming out now right right I'm gonna build and I can build two things uh the same size um plus some engineering right so I get to build one just for the uh for the cost so I could build up to I guess I could build a couple of things so first I will build a single point enclosure that cost me two but it gives me two on this track nice one two gives me one of these and another X then I'll build a Pavilion that's going to cost me two it'll go right here I'll give you one appeal lets me draw another X and you're now at five you can't have more than that for now yep and that is it so then I will slide this down or turn Aaron I am doing Association I am boosting it to five I am playing a conservation project and bumping that last one off the track Australia Blue Mountains National Park is going away I am playing Yosemite National Park okay and I am releasing a bird from the Americas into Yosemite it is size three so I'm taking the four the four uh I'm gonna release that bird I will release that bird so here's the cube sure I get four points but actually five for my migration recordings one two three four five super close to ending the game well does that drop it back down this does drop me nine appeal that's a that's quite a chunk okay not so close to ending the game anymore uh this comes out of my bird aviary which is now empty again that's bird it was worth it and uh this goes in the discard pile I got my points I also get a reputation for playing that card which again I cannot take oh yeah but you know what it's fun it's worth it uh I will make a donation for seven dollars and take one more conservation point and I took my last worker which is two more conservation points oh hey so be ready for the game to be close to ending okay but I am done I cannot boost well I can boost one more but that doesn't let me do anything for the Association action I am going to build a um petting zoo so that's six five six for a petting zoo is it evil Nicky p you know I'm pretty sure I said mine was but it's empty now it's a haunted evil petting zoo let's put it here I oh I built it and then the donkey one oh the donkey's still out there I didn't take that alpaca I go up two on this track did you you took your yeah you get a conservation and an X I will give you thank you thank you okay um building more building more building more yes I am yes I am I'm going to put it that's not far enough away so it it'll go here and get me another X so I'm going to build a um kiosk four two okay so here's the five I'm putting it here so there's an I get another X do you want to do another X or do you want to do it a reputation I mean it's I can't do it no but you could you could do it you could Pavilion just to get an appeal yeah oh sure it doesn't income's not not important no yeah you have so much money that's true okay so there's that as well take the appeal um there's the X well I could move it there then that turns it into a no what's it mean it lets you move a card and re to one yeah yeah I don't need to do that actually so the x is better well you might want your Association pushed it's gonna go to five right now because I took the build action so that's my turn I'm sliding my cards down now okay I'm gonna do the association I'm gonna definitely bump it up to five [Music] um so I'll do the other I'll do the other additional three so I can do maybe one of these okay so so you're at Power eight again for Association yeah I will do this action here is going to push this off sure it goes over there small animals yep I only have seven unfortunately so I'll take this one here okay and you're the Five Spot then yeah okay gives me additional three two three and then um and I get an additional one because I use that Cube and then I'll place this here for the other three take Australia which gives you two more it gives me two more conservations nice and um do you want to make a donation for ten dollars yeah I might as well okay might as well one more conservation point and put a cube on that tin I gave you a point cool and it is your turn Aaron okay I think really the only thing for me to do is play an animal which will move me past my conservation marker but I only have one animal and I can't make it like super great but I've got a space for well I'll play Animals I play one for my hand it's the Northern Plains gray Langer I don't have this partner Zoo so I have to pay 13. I do have an enclosure next to rock to put it in I get six appeal and I get Advance the break token three spaces and I get three money one two three I get three money back three money total five totals that was just his bonus ability so uh that is the end of my game you guys get one more turn I moved the brake token so there's a chance we could have another income before the game ends but not probably not you guys probably just want to increase your conservation and appeal as much as you can and then we'll do final score okay okay um I think my best last play is to do animals let's start with uh this is only going to be two so okay the first guy I'm gonna do is a little petting zoo guy guinea pig I know my guinea pig so um he moves me zero on that track but I put a cube in the enclosure and I gained three for the petting zoo icon which he has one on himself he has one on himself only three that's it I don't have any that's kind of how all the petting zoo animals I need to pay the seven and do you have a second one I do thank you then I'm gonna play the ring-tailed lemur uh he needs to go into three enclosure which I've got right here and it's next to rocks um I forgot though like this you forgot he's small so that's minus three and he's and he's small no he's not he's size three he's size three but he is small so that needed to be a three dollar discount so when you get a three dollar Africa discount for this one yeah so you only have to pay six instead of okay then I go up six for him he's going around the corner to 54. then I've got each time you play a primate icon I get an X not a big deal but it's an X nonetheless and you also King to appeal and I gained two more appeal for playing a primate for that sponsorship so that's one more X and also can sell up to three cards in your hand for four money each does money count as anything no at the end because I have cards believe me that I can't play I guess you might as well sell sure I don't even think it's any reason matters in any tiebreaking up to three cards your game's over so take it I guess sure I can't play any of these anyways right their enclosures are too big oh yeah for me yeah so yeah so these I will get rid of for the money that's four times three is twelve that's all right ten okay well I'm gonna do animals um do I want to do two I don't think I can afford to do two um that will be four and that will be six it's ten I could do two why not um so I will bump it up to with one first I'm going to do the Laughing Kookaburra that's going to cost me six sweet one more gives me five and this one um I gained one point for each Astra icon in all the zoos maximum eight and what did we oh no oh maximum eight I think you're at eight I have two here and I've got four and you've got plus seven eight so you're ready nine no four total yeah no one plus I counted my phone okay so he's getting eight appeal right and is that on top of oh that's on top of zero yep nice 46. okay and then for my other one my yellow throated Martin um I'm gonna it's it's it's gonna cost me um four nice a lot of birds sure is well that's a marsupial or something there I know it's almost a little like so yeah whatever I know right and then uh I gained three more for that and then I take the topmost card if it's an animal add to your hand get an animal can you afford that animal you just drew yeah you can play a third animal because you just play juice did you flip enclosures for both of those no uh he's got three years yeah so I I think you just drew a third animal that you can play yep in the other enclosure okay and then this last one the thorny devil I just drew will cost me three nice and get you three appeals yep three more appeal and that's it no no special no nothing no any kind of thing next to rock for him that actually worked out perfectly because the hunter claimed him all right so that's the end you can move your card and we are done yep one more turn I want to move this up a little come on you can move it up a little based on your end game cards well hopefully so it won't be too the only thing you do at the end game is check your end game final scoring card that you kept and the brown marked cards of Your sponsorship cards right okay so do we want to do one at a time or how yeah I mean we should say with what they score so I'll tell you okay I've got Foreign Institute which rewards me for five different continent icons I only have three so I did not score that one okay I released too many animals animals uh it only has one scoring situation like not even a lesser one nope it's literally just if you got all five and I and I didn't concentrate on it the global breeding program I did get this one I get a conservation point for supporting five nice conservation projects so that's one and this one I did concentrate on the first sponsorship I played was native seabirds and I get a conservation point for every two water spaces that I did not connect to so that's two more my final scoring card is conservation zoo and for supporting five conservation projects I get another three wow I did not Max that one out but I got okay Nikki yes you have two end game scoring sponsorship cards baboon Rock did you get six primate symbols I surely one two three four five five oh you missed one conservation point I'm sure you probably did you release one you might already Never released okay it didn't work out I think the thing got yeah and this is one space for every two isolated placement bonus spaces but you only have that one and it's not isolated okay so none from there what's your final scoring um card that you kept that was water and then the water animals dried up so to speak this one counts on here okay so that's one two three four four that's not bad so four I got two conservation points that's it Lincoln sponsorship cards grumpy grumpy so I have um this one here the I get one for being at nine I guess reputation yes no time beyond that that's you well even I'm at nine yeah and then uh for uh that's it those are this other one was zoom out completely covered I did not make it with engineer um and then favorite Zoo um because I'm at 12 I get an additional three nice [Music] two I can't quite see around the corner there's three okay and you're very close to catching all right so this is the the finishing order is clear here and this is an arc Nova game where one positive score and a lot of negative scores that's actually a fairly common occurrence but for the math uh people in the audience if there are any Lincoln gets you take the lowest number in the conservation band so 58 and he has 52 for his appeal that's a negative six okay Nikki has 88 for the lowest number here and 56 here that's a negative 32 score great and I have 37 I'm sorry in here 16 39 that's a positive 23 score okay so that is the end of the game there's no other uh things to score and it's interesting that none of us filled up our entire Zoo board which is something that people usually try and go for [Music] thank you Angelic engineer supplies Nikki where the animals cute enough and what did you what did you think of Arc Nova hahaha um wow it's a lot to take in isn't it really it is it is a beast of a game to make one last animal yeah and I uh I wasn't sure at the end there if it was better for me to move uh on the this track or to move on the green track um I could have chosen I chose to do more animals because it seemed like it got me around the corner but I also had was in a situation where I could have done some more conservation so I don't know honestly if the shields would have been a better bet but I mean you thought they had a new conservation for sure I felt like I was moving further on that last turn based on animals on based on it right but it only it's the problem is it just barely moves you along here I mean obviously this isn't a lot either if you're only moving two or three that's true I probably should have done that instead I think going over here if I was even able to place um two of them would have gotten me four in four up bumps right and then my my thing was all the way down here at the beginning of my turns about the same but obviously it depends on timing is key in this game in a million different ways but it depends on where your cards are and what's in your hand and what you should do yeah but you know like after these first few spaces every conservation point is worth three appeal points so you just sort of balance it out and see what is better for you on any given turn or for that last turn right and I'd be interested to know how many people don't quite play it correctly because there's just so many moving Parts there's so many movies and I was familiar with my cards about halfway through and I still kept forgetting to deduct oh yeah for this the the expert small animals and there were like weird little thing I don't know it's it's not a game you break out you know on family vacation with with Mom and the 10 year old cousins I mean it's it's a it's a big game and we we know that it's it's really not for everybody but it and I would say the iconography and the way that the cards read is actually reasonably clear once you see a few cards and see you know what's at the top and what's on the left and what's on the bottom but it is a lot to remember when you have this many cards in your display and you have to remember which ones are actively affecting things and then like these ones getting bumped off of this track really hurt me because there were a couple there were a couple I was building towards and it was like okay you do it's again it's timing right but you do kind of have to jump on those when you can and yeah not expect that they're going to be here one of the times I actually felt like I think I should just go for it and put the two uh uh Associates down to take that number five turn a second time yes during the round um at the beginning when we were showing the rules I was like who's ever going to want to do that and then when I saw the way things were sliding off maybe I should just do it like it's valuable to do that but anyways there you go this is a heavy game and it was board game Geeks uh 2021 golden geek winner for uh heavy gamer heavy game so and it I think it's ranked like number four on dgg right now still yeah wow so yeah it's definitely doing well yeah people like it um I don't know if it's I mean I've played played heavier games in some ways but I feel this is heavy I it has a lot of elements that you have to keep track of and I didn't even really have that complex of a zoo right I ended up just mostly building small animals I think I released one three which was that uh links I believe or something like that um but yeah you know I mean I didn't really get an opportunity to build much larger and I didn't it didn't need it like I was not drawing those animals um I did go with some threes just to be able to make sure I could do that one um I wonder if I've flipped one of these I might have needed to flip one of these things when he left I can't remember although I built a bunch of animals so many animals yeah I probably think I'll have that right back up um but yeah it's it's a lot of little elements that are um you know that sort of can go wrong right oh you have to be aware of all that stuff and it um it's cool I mean I thematically I mean I love I don't feel this is like terraforming Mars but um I kind of like terraforming Mars to idea better but I really like this theme it's really fun um there's a lot of stuff to it and as you get to know the game more the theme makes more sense really really cool what do you think Aaron I I like it quite I mean I'm a heavy game fan and there are certainly heavier games but this it's very brain burning like I mean I feel like all of our brains are very tired after this um yeah the terraforming Mars comparison is mainly just because every card in the deck is unique yeah we're not don't we have a Common Board in territory Mars too we do that's right yeah yeah uh Aries Expedition hasn't but you know cards with a lot of symbols and look you know we didn't even get to have this is more than half the deck that didn't come out right in our first three years here's just the discard right which is so but mechanically they're not all that similar no really it's just a comparison that you can clearly visualize I really like this card uh action mechanism that makes whatever you just did the weakest card in your yeah fantastic that's a great mechanism that I think we'll probably see more of in the other games as much as I really like this action I do believe it is from a previous game which was civilization New Dawn Oh Yeah from a few years back but I still think that it's really a solid um system and it really makes it you know it changes up your game and it's another layer of strategy that I really appreciate it is a lot to con to consider and a lot to keep track of but I do kind of like this like ongoing thing of your zoo whether it's the icons on the animals or the ongoing scoring opportunities and powers on your cards I I do like quite a bit of it even though it sort of seems like almost every turn can be so many different things to consider in so many different overwhelming possibilities yeah this is kind of cool too because this movement here is fast you see a lot of stuff coming through so it gives you the opportunity like you want to do some of those things taking the snap uh snap is action is really uh essential it is um I mean I basically toss most of the not most a couple of the things that I had snapped oh or I didn't do them uh because you know it really comes down to cost and where you can place them I actually snapped the Llama I think and discard it almost immediately because I didn't have a petting zoo right I was looking for small animals to try to get this to eight and um and I wasn't able to do that you're liking the um cards in the middle one thing I would say about it is as long as people are continually drawing from this it's a very conveyor belt kind of situation which does kind of help you pivot if you need to like I did I should say that I did manage to Pivot a little bit maybe not fast enough but the opportunity was there because when those cards disappeared I was able to maybe go okay I think it's time to change my attack right in terraforming Mars can't you when you have a card in your hand that's totally useless can't you sell it or use it to fuel other cards I played it with you all right well I guess I guess our memories are all too fuzzy on it that's that's one thing that I that bothers me a tiny bit about this game is a useless card in your hand is useless well there are some cards to let you do that yeah but okay yeah and there's more than one and you got a couple of those and I actually got the one that let you tuck a couple cards underneath yeah for extra peel points but I feel like you know when you're over your hand limit sometimes you have to discard you don't have a lot of hand flexibility and so sometimes you're just going to discard stuff even if like you said oh it was something I snapped a turn or two ago and picked up so it feels like there's a little bit of hand clog or maybe car uselessness when you thought you were going to have more you know I sort of like a game where every car does something even if it's not what you plan on I didn't a very minor quibble I didn't feel like it was clear enough but I have these cards that gave me money right and also sometimes when we hit the break I was happy to get rid of like yeah absolutely like this is just sitting here I only had that one way or tough turn because I actually took that first early so that I would not really uh I saw I was gonna have cards and I'm like I don't want to get rid of these um but uh you know it's it's got a lot of interesting things going on I really I love the kind of game where you can't you want to do everything and you just can't you ended up doing a lot of the cubes on the concert uh conservation track stuff there which is great you did five which is what you needed for that goal it was my end game goal yeah but it's also number one a way to speed along the game and end it and number two big points as you saw I mean well I got five points off of two huge animal donations because I had giant birds that I released into the wild but I but they also worked really well with the scoring cards that I had yep well cool thanks for teaching Us Sarah you bet and thanks to you for watching if you like this video hit the thumbs up button and consider subscribing to our Channel if you click on the Bell you'll get notified when we put up new videos see you next time [Music] thank you [Music]

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Published: Thu Mar 02 2023