Ark Nova - Solo Playthrough vs ARNO bot - Part 1

hey everybody ron here from solo operative games um you might be saying yourself why is arkanova back on the table did you finish your solo series answer to that would be yes uh but the other answer to your question is we have a special treat tonight we are playing versus an ai opponent not just a um a little bot that does things and stuff but this is actual opponent that's gonna play the game against us and try and beat us and we're gonna try to beat it the name is arno a-r-n-o and uh the the bot instructions um or the atoma player whatever you want to call it uh is available on bgg in the download section we are gonna give it a try uh we're gonna try it on medium difficulty we might get blown away who knows um but the cool things about this is we actually get to play with the coffee break token which we normally uh did not and we're gonna play it on two players um although arno is capable that you can add multiple arno's per per game uh arno also has a zoo board which is completely different the the normal bot that comes with the game does not um and he's going to be adding in conservation projects that we can actually play off of as well and but he will be stealing zoos and universities from us or partner zoos yep and placing cubes out on some of these projects too so it's going to simulate as much as possible a real a real player and we're trying to beat him i have had to zoom the camera out a little bit so it might be harder to read a few things but we are recording in 4k so hopefully things are red but i've had to zoom out and add the other game board flip this sideways and hopefully uh we can fit everything in there's there's no way i could fit multiple arno's in the in the camera shot but so we're just gonna get to try one let's go ahead and set up first thing to do arno starts with map a because he's actually unfortunately not gonna build any enclosures in his zoo but he will place out some animal cards but we need to figure out which zoo we want to play with i was tempted just to use map zero because it's gonna be pretty tricky i haven't played against arno yet so i don't know those strategies yet to beat him but let's try with a with a custom zoo arnold does use a few dice to determine some of his actions um he picks from four of his action cards so i was tempted to get a d4 but you wouldn't be able to see a d4 although i'm not sure you can see either of these dice either but we can use this d8 to help us pick our maps so six and seven i've removed the three that we played in our campaign so they might not be in here don't remember their numbers um let's look that's eight one four five okay six and seven we played with both of those so let's look at four and three so four is the commercial harbor and three was the other one we played with wasn't it yep we need one more two two is outdoor areas all right i'm gonna throw these other maps i don't want to damage them one sec okay which one i want to go with uh that's a big decision so the commercial harbor as a space down here in the corner it says once during your turn you may discard a card in hand for three money at any time um so this we've got a lot of extra cards and we need some money we can get that not as exciting outdoor areas i think we saw this one before but we didn't pick it each adjacent standard enclosure has plus two capacity i think that's great we will need to flip build card fairly early to be able to access this space but everything next to this gate here gets plus two capacity so we could build a size one here and it holds a three and a size three animal i think we're gonna go with that um that will be our choice outdoor areas okay is that viewable yes it is okay cool should have waited to run the other maps over there but that's okay all right so we got our cards let's get our associates in here some cubes don't mind the uh the stamp on my hand i went to amusement park today okay that is all set up got our cards animal to bottom the other four is randomized the atoma also has the same thing animals at the bottom everything else randomized this is set up correctly although we do need three conservation projects here so we've got one two three oh okay interesting two continents uh europe and australia and again i'm just going to slide them in a little bit so they don't take as much space and then predators okay interesting um we need our starting money of 25 bucks uh arnold we're the first player so arnold's going to start up here as the second player with one appeal he also gets a free conservation point that doesn't seem fair but the rules say he does so i guess we have to give it to him um all right let's deal out some cards face down on adult card track we also need some conservation track bonuses here we're seeing 3x tokens free university attend money and two reputation all good bonuses great okay um i'll straighten these out after i flip them but we need to deal our initial hands so eight cards for both of us i guess we should probably true deal them out right one to me one to you all right that's eight cards for both of us uh he only gets one end game scoring card that's just going to be face down on his map and uh yeah i think i need to do oh i need two of these don't i okay um so we'll deal with his starting deck in a minute let's look at what we got we have small animal zoos which doesn't really work with my wide open spaces but favorite zoo which is one of my favorites you get a lot of reputation that's probably the one i'll go for unless we just don't find ways to get reputation so we'll move those over here you'll probably not be able to see them very well i don't want them taking up a ton of space um wow whoa whoa holy i shift shuffle these they're all conservations except for two ant i got two animals here a petting zoo animal and a tiny like these don't work with our thing at all okay so let's go we have the wallaby there's a petting zoo he has a pouch means you can um stuff cards under him um the chinese water dragon uh size one for asia which doesn't match anything here lizard doesn't match anything um sunbathing let's sell cards also not a great starting card expert on africa would be amazing if africa showed up here didn't what how does this happen we've got three experts okay okay and then well here's some uh research remember we we had a bunch of these cards before we end up not getting them uh no we did take this one didn't we uh this is a free x token every um income phase and we are gonna have a lot more income phases in this game because we're playing the true coffee break not uh just the um standard breaks every time we do a certain number of actions uh so that one's not bad um basic research it's a level two so this is more end game [Music] it's just having a ton of different uh icons once you play it down but you have to play it before you get to 25 and then zoo school which is great you're just going to place it out immediately and it's a free conservation point and reputation all right so no basic research we do need europe's icons here so i think we'll keep the expert on europe i think we'll keep the zoo school um i think the technology these are all level so i'm not gonna be able to play all these hmm sponsors is starting fairly high i also want to check his deck just real quick if he got all blue cards as well and i think something's wrong with the deck no you got all animal cards what the heck you saw me shuffle that right i just happened to go back and forth and we just ended up this way um wow because i can like get the expert on europe but this builds small enclosures every time you play europe tag although remember when we place small enclosures near that it counts as a bigger enclosure right um so school lexus draw a card get some sex tokens okay well i think we got to keep all three of those and then let's um i don't think uh petting zoo does this much good with this so not a great starting hand um that's how it's how it works sometimes with our nova right okay with his cards uh we can refer to the setup instructions but basically he's gonna take his eight cards he's going to discard all of his sponsor cards and i'm not going to refull to the rules all the time just set up a little bit um so any uh sponsor card he has gets rid of this is native farm animals you just want to put things around the border then he's going to take all of his animal cards and these actually count as icons for us and there's a ton of them and he gets all eight okay all we need to see is the icons so he actually got a petting zoo all right and then i think he gets to have that as well okay so we do get all of the knowledge of what he has face up um which is interesting because i can see that he's got arthong national park which is uh have um release asian animals at some point he might play that and then maybe i could release an asian animal as well and i have the chinese water dragon so i mean it's only it is three conservation points just to release this guy and he's only three a pill so if he does put that out i will be releasing the water dragon and then i could put something bigger into his pen if it's near the expansion there okay so i think let's verify that all the setup um yep i think that's good okay um let's get started what do you want to do with our first action here i think i mean we've got association we might i think that's probably a good start um we got to think about partner zoos probably right um we might want to wait to get a european partner zoo until we have this card out um so maybe we go get an asia one so this guy becomes super cheap i think that's not a bad idea as far as universities um getting some research early might not be a bad idea we do get to see the card row don't we maybe we should look at that first giant panda the cougar oh we got some predators out here eurasian links oh lots of europe and europe is a target for us so maybe that changes our uh our goal here another petting zoo so we've actually seen three one one here one in my initial hand in there and there's only 10 petting zoo animals in the entire deck so that is kind of crazy um yeah but i'm liking the eurasian lynx he's european and a predator that's pretty nice and he's size three so we could put him in a size one near that uh expand our open water what's called outdoor area um so do we get europe um one thing about the arno is he can take cards from any of the six so you can't just be like oh well that was gonna get shifted down later it'll be easier to get um arno can just grab that so you can't assume cards will be sticking around which is kind of like simulates another player doing a a snap and taking it so um it does need two european tags we could get one here and one with the zoo i just i would be losing one appeal here hmm nope i like it i'm actually going to go with that so we're going to take association as our first action and go get a partner zoo and we will take europe okay that is our first turn done all right so now we can actually see what arnold does so i'm gonna roll a d8 and he's only gonna pick from the two through five so this would be one two three four five six seven eight and he got a three so he's going to use cards and this is a a blue still so it's on the level one whatever but it's power three um so we have this you probably can't see this because i put in black and white um but if he looks at it when he takes cards he takes break for uh just one so he's gonna move coffee counter one then he's randomly gonna take a card from the display so see what i meant he could do anything he wants and there are six cards so we'll roll d6 for that uh he's taking card five so he's taking the anaconda and that just goes right into his played cards um and he's gonna gain two appeal okay now appeal doesn't matter a lot because he doesn't get money but it's gonna it's gonna determine the length of the game basically as his appeal goes up okay so we had primatologists come out if we see a lot of monkey cards primate cards then that could be good okay and that's his whole turn so cards is going to move down and it's back to us so very simple bop you just roll you do but it's doing kind of more of the actions of the card um and giving him a turn okay let's execute our plan then we have sponsors in the fifth slot so we'll go ahead and get an expert on you're about oh do i want zoo school out because then i could play something on the borders no i can't i have to have to go with the plan go with the plan all right so sponsors at level five gets us the expert on europe out now we do have one europe icon plus two so we get two appeal not bad and um then it says anytime you place a europe icon which we just did we get a size one enclosure now unfortunately this does have to be somewhere by the edge so i can't place it right next to our outdoor areas right now um so i think i'm going to oh there's a partner zoo over there isn't there but it's far away from this so let's go and place a size one right here yeah i think that'll be fine okay um so i think we've done everything on the with the expert on europe that is our turn number two all right for arno he's going to do uh build and he's gonna do build uh with power three what does he do there strength three says appeal goes up on medium difficulty he gets three a pill so one two three uh and that is all he does he just gets a peel so cool now we're hoping he always runs laurel's low because the stronger the stronger the card that he does like the better his action so don't roll five there are five or sevens and eights in this case all right back to us um so we need to get this oh do we need to break or snap for that uh links yes okay so we will do cards as our action we will snap for the eurasian links and that goes directly into our hand and that's pretty much all that happens for that action so everything slides down oh interesting a primate comes out right after the uh primatologist it's like i didn't shuffle even though i did i shuffled for like 15 minutes okay um back to her now right he got a five so he's going one two three five association power four uh so he's gonna take his association worker and he's gonna put it on the partner university uh now it's random which ones he gets so we'll go one two three four five six and he's going for this one and he does get the reputation for that and that's his turn okay oh i'm like you used to look into that track to know oh i have three more turns till the break but i have no idea it's arbitrary now so we have to be a lot more careful with our money um now we've got the european links out now i kind of goofed a little bit because i i was hoping i could get this near the explo open space and put the links in it um but no that's a size one right now um so we do need to build a size three for him i think let's do that so we'll go with build and we're building a size three um i could build a two and it would be size four so it would be a lot cheaper how much does he cost he is only gonna cost me eight so not very expensive um okay and unfortunately he gives me points for europe icons in all zoos look at arno he has no europe icons at all that sucks no problem um so what do we do do we build a size three or we just go a two in the open space um so it would be a four um i think a size three is fine we'll have the money for it so i'm gonna stick this not near the the thing because i don't need it to be bigger so we'll go right there he doesn't need uh anything no okay uh our water dragon if we do play him needs a water space near it which is fine um so that's going to cost us six bucks okay so we're left with 19. and it was covering x token that is our turn all right arno what are you doing oops that's the d6 three so he's gonna do cards as his action remember all he does for cards is he breaks for one he takes a random card that's six i'm going to run out of space to play these i guess i can start putting them over here because you just need to see the icons um and fill that and there's gonna be a what to appeal so he's racing up the appeal track okay uh that was his turn cool um [Music] yeah he just says he takes a card i'm just wondering how many cards he's gonna have by the end of the game cool uh our turn um we do have animals here at the top so we can play we could play two animals do we have the money for oh we didn't place anything near the water oh i think we've got a plan though okay so we'll do animals we will start by playing the eurasian links so we have to flip a size three which we can do um we pay eight bucks because we have a discount we do need two icons there's one there one there so we covered that so just the eight dollars okay and that's going to put the eurasian links into play uh he has a predator and europe satisfying two requirements there which is great he gains us two appeal for himself plus one more for every europe icon in all zoos that's one two three none there so three more so we're catching up uh and that is all he does now we do have the ability to play a second animal but we don't have a pen for it however this says anytime we play a european europe icon which we just did we place a size one so a place is size one and i don't need this to be uh bigger than it is right now so i can actually just place it up here i don't really want the giant panda so i'm not going to cover up that card since that's well i could take something off the top of the deck but i am at three cards yeah i think i'll just place it here so that was our bonus for the expert on europe and now as our second animal we can actually play the chinese water dragon uh so it's a flip a size one near the water done pay eight money okay i've got three left uh and then i can sell up two cards from my hand for four bucks each i do get three appeal one two three i don't want to sell you those no i love both of these so we will not be selling any cards that kind of sucks because we don't gain a lot of money um so maybe i should have put it up here just to draw a card for money yeah let's do that okay so we're selling pam we're doing a little bit of take back this is all the same turn no information has been revealed so i think it's fine but yeah we are going to cover up this we're going to take the panda because it's in our reputation range immediately sell it for the chinese water dragon to get four bucks i think that's a better action cool and that is the end of our animals so all these will slide and i see that the oh there's a australian predator that is actually really good too the australian sea lion all right arno what are you gonna do he's got a three which he's great he's great he's rolling low so he's gonna build and remember all he does when he builds uh well i guess it depends on the uh strength which is strength three he gets a peel three appeal takes the lead again that's okay all right i am running low on money so i might want to be thinking about um bringing the break down but um i can't associate because i don't have a guy um and sponsor i would like to sponsor for five but it's a four so i'm going to have to spend an x to do that and do we want to get zoo school out to get a free conservation and a card that we can draw or do we want to start gaining x tokens now and at every income both of them really good um [Music] let's see oh i think yeah let's do zoo school okay so we're putting out zoo school it's power five so we can we take the oh school's right on top perfect um it has to be near two border spaces so i could put it right here and i will uh that allows me to i've covered up a move something to level one uh it gives me draw one for my reputation range but i'm first going to gain this rep range and the conservation tied with the arno uh and now i can either draw the cougar or the grass snake the cougar's not bad he's a he is a predator but the grass snake is also a europe and i would like to get one two three four euros so that i can get the middle bonus here so i think i'm gonna take the european grass snake okay and that is our zoo school dub oh look release a predator into the wild pretty cool all right and since uh association is up here and i can't do it i'm thinking about sending that back to the bottom uh because it's gonna be a while till we break oh i forgot to move when i did cards see i'm not used to having the um the thing intact but when i did the snap for cards it actually should be too lower okay so i got to remember that cards has a break on it so let's move hmm i'm probably going to get this animal out right now oh it needs to be near the water again so i'm going to have to build something it's too late too bad you can't like use this to trigger this to build the thing we have to satisfy requirements first okay um yeah let's i don't want to move cards down is there a good card to draw anytime soon to snap for yeah we liked the australian sea lion so let's move this association down it'll be back up there before we need to use it okay makes it arno's turn seven oh no he's going up to the top so he's gonna sponsor string five means he's gonna break for five wow okay one two three four five did not expect him to do that he does not get x tokens so he doesn't worry about that but it says arnold places one of his tokens on his final scoring card so he's getting close to satisfying that depending on how many are on there by the end of the game determines what level he fulfills that um but that's his entire sponsored action so that was actually good that um when he did something really high it was sponsors because the only thing that matters is it just breaks for more okay so we need to discard down we only have two cards so we're good remove any tokens there's nothing there we can actually need to refill here because i might want to go get this university europe okay um nice next take out these two cards ah goodbye cougar bunny rabbit okay odds that a petting zoo animal comes out fairly high that was a joke it did onto the hydrologist comes out yeah oh close large animal expert okay um yeah and then we just need our income so i'm sitting here at 12 bucks and we did not get our um x token income card out yet so i think that's all i get go wow we do get these guys back and he triggered the break so it is our turn okay uh cards is up high so we could snap for it or snap for something um savannah interesting could be nice uh releasing our um eurasian links would give us four conservation points and he's actually not losing a lot of appeal because most of the peel we got from is bonus not from his card so that is tempting we need an association to get to the end again already maybe that was a bad choice because now i've got my associate i was thinking there would be two or three more turns before the break and he just went nope break okay something i think about now that i didn't have to before now the sea lion is a size four so if we're putting them near our large or outdoor areas we just need a size two and it would be near the water automatically um he's 15 bucks because we have to have a partner zoo with australia so he'd be 15. so we can afford them but we need to get out we need to get our association up to three to get the zoo and then we want to get to five again to actually uh associate something so i think we're better off not snapping and trying to get the uh european grass snake out there anything with europe icon no just hoping to be able to play a level one for free but um let's go ahead and do build and we're just building a size one uh near the water let's do here that cost us two dollars [Music] okay that always feels so just lame like build power four build a size one enclosure okay uh arnold's turn seven again oh man so he's doing animals at power five uh four animals on medium difficulty he gets appeal uh equal to his power plus one so he gets six appeal for that so it's like he put out a pretty decent animal and got a lot of appeal that's a bad one to have up high okay back to us uh we can play animals right yep okay so i'll do animals play level one near the water uh for five bucks and that gives us uh three appeal all right we are we do play a europe icon so that gives us a size one enclosure um i will play this one i think near the open areas so we can play up to a three oh there's no threes out there um i want that sea lion but i want a space for him so i need to put a two near this i can put it right there yeah so let's just let's just get a size one enclosure there it's near water if we need it it's also up to size three okay uh so that gave us our icon thing and now after finishing the current action you place any action card on one so we will go ahead and move cards down which is nice to get some sponsors all the way up to the top pretty fairly quickly and we are done okay back to arnaud whoops he got a six so he's using association uh with a part of power four uh strength four he goes to partner university again now he's already got the one with uh uh app or not appeal um and it's not education reputation there we go so let's just do one two three or four five six he's taken the two research ones now that does let him flip a card and he does do flipping cards it gives him better actions now uh and it is random which one he picks so we'll just do one through five or re-roll and he got uh card five so he's gonna flip build and now when he builds he's gonna use the better build action uh it just gives him kind of more appeal or a rep yeah it's kind of just every everything that it would have done is just a little bit better all right that was this association action okay cool when i was looking at his rules i was thinking he was going to get conservation a lot more maybe it's just because i rolled low numbers that he hasn't but i was worried about him maybe it didn't need to be okay um back to us we have a sponsor card in our hand and sponsors of five so i think it's a good time to play it look we got three level power five sponsor cards out and quite quite early on i think um all that does besides giving us a science icon there as we get next token and then now every turn we're getting x token plus if we have all three universities in the game we get a conservation okay uh what was the expert on europe again his endgame um gain one for five occupied one space enclosures so we need a bunch of size one enclosures and that actually fits in well with our strategy so i think that card was perfect to get out early okay uh nothing else happens there then all right we got a next token that was it that seems kind of lame um but it's gonna work out every single income now arno you got a four you're doing sponsors so you're gonna break four four one two three four and he's going no no sorry break for three power three yeah even though you roll before uh and places one of his player tokens on the end game scoring so he needs six on there biting in the game to get the full credit for that in-game scoring thing okay uh and that seems like it's gonna happen because if he gets one every time he sponsors like yeah cool i don't know how you could prevent him it's just gonna be luck back to us we have no cards in our hand and we just sent cards all the way down to the bottom but we will associate uh and we're gonna take our guy and put him on sponsor and we need to we have how many european icons one two three four so we're at four it would be nice if we could have got to five but i think that's pretty good what do we want to get as far as uh income um i really like like the ability to snap every income that just seems huge uh but money is going to be pretty tight this game a lot more so than the other single player um just free a free conservation point right now well let's see we're gonna get four so that's going to get us up to five so we're gonna get flip a card plus maybe university um so that extra one's probably not going to help but maybe getting another associate um i don't really have a use for it a big influx of cash right now um a free size 2 would let us get enough space to put that sea lion out if we put it near our open outdoor areas uh that's funny to put an australian sea lion in an outdoor area who's just gonna swim around in this lake that's kind of funny um hmm but snapping a card or five extra income having straight income is almost like getting like 12 appeal it's really nice and just get your appeal marker up there oh this decision's so hard every time i make it and i seem like i always make the wrong one i'm gonna snap i'm gonna take cards i think i'm just gonna need them i have no cards right now and my reputation's pretty low so that's what we'll do and we're gonna get four so one two three four first one i think we should flip a card let's go and flip association yep that's my plan uh and the second one i think i free uh the university we could take i don't need extra hand limit so we'll go with this one which does give us up to reputation we're beating him on two tracks that's awesome uh and then yeah that's the end of the action we can't um donate because this was not flipped at the beginning uh in my single player series no actually corrected me on that rule whether you can't do an action like the better action when you flip at midterm so we will not [Music] okay that felt pretty good i liked getting out of uh conservation project turn two and usually you just go for the the tours you know just get two conservation points early to flip a car to get a guy um we might regret not having a second associate since uh coffee break doesn't happen as often so we're not gonna get this one guy back that's okay um we can get it do we satisfy any of the others uh two predators we're not there yet australia that'll give us our second predator and our first australia so that ceiling i think we need to grab oh and we do get we just we just took this off so that was the whole point of that it was um to take that sea lion but now i'm wondering if we show you now i'm already regretting my decision here um because i can get that sea lion if i just put something here how much is it 18 bucks i can't even afford him i need to get money so i have to do some sponsoring to get some money um he isn't my reputation already a range already because we just moved up there so we could take money we took the 12 bucks this one now that my association's up if i am i flipping this card i should do it all right switching it up i'm gonna take my second guy let's get him okay uh turn over back to arno he got a one so he's gonna associate oh this is bad when he associates and he has no guys he just gets uh two conservation that is not fair and he always takes his second guy um he also does a break for two though okay slip my turn all right so i need if i'm gonna get that sea lion which i will unless he takes cards and and happens to grab that um as soon as well i could just take cards right now i'd prefer if he took one of these two because then i could get the savannah and the sea lion but [Music] we are going to need a bunch of random cards for his sunbathing oh and we can't even play him until we get a partner with australia hey look we have a another guy okay so let's let's build him a pen and assume we're assuming we're gonna get there so we're gonna do build and we're just gonna build a size 2 pen it's gonna go near the water in an outdoor area so four dollars to do that so it gives me six pack and that is done again power level five build we built a size two but it's a size four right okay arno your turn you got a four that is uh animals action now he's going to get the power level which is three plus one so he gets four appeal on that one and he's rushing up the appeal he's a little bit higher in conservation and that does move this down okay for our turn uh we need to get some cards now power level four this gives us uh two cards we don't have to discard any um so i am happy to take the c line and then one off the top and we got the northern giraffe uh needs a size three so it would fit in this outdoor area here so our sea lions and our giraffes will intermingle um it's a uh opposite of carnival herbivore from uh from africa uh okay we'll probably end up just selling it for money when we play the sea lion but who knows and we need to need to make sure we break two and we do that okay an eight oh no he's gonna build power five bad bad bad oh this is level two as well uh that is for conservation so i don't know how he got it but he did one two three four he always just takes one of these randomly and gets rid of it unless it's a zoo or a reputation or a university or a guy um okay that sucked we do not want him to roll build and when he does we do not want it to be big and he happened to get both of them cool what do we do next we're in a bad position here because we can't really play animals and sponsors is here we got no sponsor card association on the other hand is a level three now so i think we'll do that we're gonna put that on partner zoo and take australia now that let us flip a card um build's not bad because we do need to build to get out into this space here animals is nice because then we get some free reputation but i think i'm gonna do build all right that's card flip um and we've got our australia icon but nothing really happens for that so and turn oh we couldn't we can't donate do we want to donate yeah he hasn't put any donations out i don't think he starts donating until his association card gets to level two right um yeah so once his association is two he places worker and donates so let's get the donation out early when it's only two dollars yes never get to do that in the other single player game um so a free conservation for two bucks take it okay arnold what are you doing rollo real low he's rolling a four so he's associating again uh power three has to come here and get a zoo yep so what zoo does he get i guess it's random so we'll use the eight it'll be one two three four five six seven eight it is uh africa i think i might have done that wrong when he did the university was that here or was it here because it's one of those i rolled a four maybe gave him credit for power for it oh well water into the bridge long gone can't fix it now this should have been shifted uh release a bird hey it's the game where all the release things come out must be that part of the deck right okay i think we need to trigger a break sponsors is high we don't have sponsors cards so we could get four money out of that uh we've actually token it up for five but we're about to get a lot of money and another x token i think we're fine so let's go ahead and break for four or sponsor power four break right yeah okay so this will move down to the end we'll get four money and we uh we were the guns that caused that so we get a next token okay oops the zoo's shaking earthquake um discard down to three we only have two cards don't worry about that there's special tokens nothing there refresh this area uh some zoos i don't think we need this one but i'm just gonna put it on there okay that is refreshed um remove the bottom two cards come on pick them up there we go and slide down so if we want to get that savannah release the predator we need to grab it quick king's vulture big bird and the uh hornsfield tarsier i think our primate stuff just left the board so was not in the cards to get that now i just need my money uh so my appeal is 14 we did not end up doing that so just just get the 14 here so we are at 24 money uh and then we remember we get a free x token every income so that's cool we have three x tokens and i believe that is all our income we triggered the break so then i'll go back to here and it'll be arnold's turn in a four he's gonna do animals and remember that just gives him strength plus one so three plus one is four appeal okay and he actually hasn't played an animal in a while right um so yeah i was worried about him getting two nails but most of those came from his first initial hand uh move this down okay i'm just checking the camera real quick looking good our turn now we have um plenty of money to play the sea lion we have the partner zoo with them so i think that might be a good time to do it we're only going to play one animal because i don't think we can get this giraffe out there that would be 16 and 15 is 31. we are just barely short um do we want to try and get some money somehow first because we had 24 now we're actually quite short seven bucks i don't think there's a way to get seven dollars real quick um so let's just play the c line so where do animals sea lion goes out here size four near the water and a nice open enclosure so it's a little bit bigger that works and we have a partnership with australia so we only pay 15. okay and what's it give us uh well it does give us a predator so we have two predators for this card australia getting close on that one it does give us one conservation so we caught back up with arnold there and seven appeal we need that for our income that's great and now we can sell cards from your hand up to four dollars each i'm gonna go and sell the giraffe goodbye and get four bucks all right that is our animal action okay and we flipped two size ones so we're less than halfway on the bonus for the expert on europe um okay what do you want to do next oh it's his turn he's doing a one so he's dissociating power two i think he's just going to go here get two reputation one two that lets him flip a card uh so we'll do one two three four five six seven eight and he's flipping animals uh what does that change for his animals action he just gets plus two now to the power when he plays animals so a little bit more uh quicker his appeal is going to go up okay association goes down and for us no cards this is so weird not having any cards um probably because we haven't played the cards action very much um but we should probably build an anticipation of getting something um although we could just build a lot of the size one stuff i think that might be good so let's go ahead and do that so we'll go ahead and build at strength five we can get a size one a size two a pavilion and a kiosk so remember they all have to be different and they have to total up to the power so five will cost us 10 money and that's almost all our money but now we have quite a few things to play stuff in um let's put the size 2 here so that'll be a size four and then we'll put the size one right here so that'd be a size three and give us an x all right we're getting mac almost to our maximum x token so we need to play those pretty soon um where do we want this kiosk to go we don't actually have a great place for it unless we do this instead yeah there we go so then i go there it's earning too much too many right now and learn three later and maybe even more and we'll just throw this up here in the corner for a free appeal okay that was now that's a good build action that felt much more meaty actually filled in quite a bit of the map okay uh we paid for it we move it down we're good okay arno what are you doing dude he got a one so he's doing animals uh power two plus two is for appeal that's all he gets to do just making sure yep okay we need some cards and wait cards is just at the top that's amazing so we'll play cards i'm gonna pick savannah as one of them i'm gonna draw two more uh i don't really like expert large animals or the sheep so we'll just do two more off the top i'm gonna discard one of them um oh talented communicator you're brilliant you're gonna need level two sponsorship um this is every time reptiles are played from now on so this one and my other two would not count i think we're gonna discard that one her herpetologist her herpe herpetologist okay apparently that's the study of reptiles last one is uh from australia the kamenagama african common agama our turn is done uh we didn't need to break for two though one two okay arno got a two so he's gonna associate and exact oh he can't go here so i think he goes to the next one up now that's actually a rule we probably have to read just the first time here to make sure so associating if he already has one of his workers on the task he selects the next higher task so he goes up to there and he needs everything but africa so go one two three four five six seven eight he's going to take uh asia and let's him flip a card so one two three four five six six flips cards okay um cards what's that gonna do at level two um not much except it gets conservation instead of appeal now okay and that was association action our turn um we should probably associate since it's up here and we have two guys sitting there um we could go get our predators just for two that would put us across the tracks we could pick one of those maybe get some money or some reputation reputation let's flip a card we could flip sponsors allowing us to play this card i think that's a great idea um oh yes we do two predators right because we don't we weren't lucky enough to have in our hand so let's do that we're gonna associate it up a five and place a cube out now i'm going to [Music] um we're here again i better get the money let's not forget to get the money immediately um that's going for two predators two here one two and taking the reputation one two flipping sponsors i never flip sponsors but we need it and now we get twice the money so yeah this is much better when we actually have the coffee icon in play okay and anything else we need to do oh i can i have x tokens interesting yes i could play four of them and get a university or play three of them and get a zoo i think i'm gonna play three because i have they're almost maxed and so it's i'd start losing them so let's go ahead and get or i could just get two reputation hmm it would be nice we do have association we can get up there we do need to get three or three uh things by the end of the game and remember we've got a guy over here to get the fourth zoo let's just get a zoo uh do we know what we want no um i don't let's get to africa no reason i could tell her third guy there yep cool yep happy with that that's good oh do we want to donate yes five bucks for a point five bucks i just got right and i'm triggered at level 10 now um i need to get a cube here um so we're gonna pick one of these i think definitely go favorite zoo all those small animals we have two of them out but i think that's too hard so discard that one he doesn't have to discard no fair cheater now we go back to arno and i'm gonna take a quick break

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Published: Tue Jul 19 2022