Ark Nova - Tutorial & Playthrough

[Music] [Music] right i think we are live hello to everybody who is watching this and let me know as always if you can hear me and you can see me okay and the audio is okay and the visual is okay and welcome to a tutorial and playthrough of arc nova i'm joined by dan hello and rob hello let us know if you can hear them hopefully you can uh and yeah i'm going to be teaching them how to play i've played this game before i've played it i've played a bit of a game at essen i've then played three quarters of the game at the local club and then we ran out of time and i've played two solo games um so i'm going to be teaching you how to play and then we're going to be playing now this is one of those games it's a pretty heavy game pretty complex game i'm going to teach you most of the rules before we start but i'm probably not going to teach you every little tiny bit of detail because otherwise we'll be here we'll be here for an hour um and there are a few people in the chat um my microphone seems a bit loud okay i can turn mine down or i can try and project a bit less um yeah there's a few people in the chat who've played it before so hopefully they will call me out if i uh don't make any rules mistakes but hopefully i won't now couple of things before we start um this is not a sponsored video in any way so big thank you to frank um for fuel and spoiler for getting me a copy of this game before it sold out um because it did sell out addison so thank you very much frank uh for that but no it's not a sponsored video publishers haven't uh given me any money to make this video it's only been made possible through the support of the patreon campaign so yeah huge thank you to all of my patreon supporters for making the channel possible uh if you like the content that i create obviously give the video a like leave me a comment in the video if you're not watching this live and yeah consider supporting me on patreon if you can right so this is a game where we are all building our own zoos there's a lot of things going on in this game uh we're going to be taking turns on your turn you take you choose an action you perform that action and then it'll be the next player's turn i'm going to skip ahead right to the end of the game now because you need to know what you're doing and how to win so in the center of the board we have this big long thin board here okay and there are three tracks on it we have the appeal track which is this ticket icons which goes all the way around that way we have the conservation track which is the green spaces that goes that way and we have the reputation track which is this one in the middle of the board here you will be earning these appeal points for various things mainly introducing animals into your zoo other things as well and you'll be earning conservation points or various things these are harder to get hold of than appeal points but when you gain a conservation point you move on the green spaces okay the end of the game is triggered when one player's appeal marker reaches the same green section as their conservation marker all goes past it okay now at that point the end of the game is triggered and i'm just looking this up um the player who triggered the end of the game will complete their turn all other players will take one more turn and then the game ends okay and your score what you do is you take your marker your conservation marker put it on the lowest number space and that's your score okay so if the game ended right now and i triggered the end of the game my score would be five five points and that could be a winning score okay so yeah it's the difference between your two markers you're trying to get appeal you are also trying to get conservation points and when one player's marker crosses the other one that triggers the end of the game okay allow rogers of the ganges yes which i've not played but uses a used as a similar mechanism right there's lots of icons in the game as well you already see there's a huge amount of icons in the game and we've not finished the setup yet so i am going to do that setup on purpose now dan you were gonna deal with eight cards each sure so that we didn't spend five minutes looking at them but we run out of time it's fine so each player gets eight of these cards now you can see here there's a big pile of cards there's even more cards off camera there's a big there's a bigger pile of cards here i think there's 202 cards including yeah 212 zoo cards included in the game now the rules of the game state that we're supposed to deal out six of these cards and put them face down here okay and then once we've chosen our starting cards we reveal them right personally i don't see the point of that what we're going to do is we're going to choose our starting cards and then we'll just deal six face up here okay okay so you've got eight cards yeah eight out of these cards you're going to choose four of them to start with and discard the other four okay but you've got another 20 minutes of rules before yeah to help you make a decision once we've chosen them or they'd be public yeah no they'll be in your hand in the hands they'll be in your hand they'll be public once you've played them okay so your action cards each player has five action cards i'll show you on my my screen here so five action cards each and they're two sided purple and blue and just a quick note about the two colors purple blue the colors are important so every time you see something in that color or that color it is referring to the side of the card we'll come back to that later on but out of these action cards you want the blue side up which is the level one side you want to take the animals card you want to put it in position number one beneath your player board i'm just going to move this to the right so that i'm not obscuring it okay then you want to shuffle the rest of them and put them randomly in the other the other spaces okay that's that setup done while we're here we're talking about the zoo um let me just explain what we've got here you've got you want to put seven cubes on the slots on the right hand side we'll come on to those later on but there isn't sorry left to say left hand side i'll say right hand side left hand side um we'll come on to how you remove these cubes later but when you remove a cube because both sections have the lightning bolt on what that means is that you will get that bonus immediately okay but the top four also have the purple icon with the hand yeah which means income right so the top four are immediate and also income the bottom three are just immediate okay we'll come to that later on you've then got your zoo now your zoo is divided into spaces and um you you've got rock spaces you've got mountains and you've got lakes you can't build on them you can only build on the other spaces now those people watching this will notice i have map zero that's because i've played the game before so dan and rob are using map a which is the one that is recommended for your first game the advantage of map a is that you actually start the game with a size three enclosure empty already on your board which is why it's that side up and you already start with the kiosk rebuilt any future buildings that you build must be adjacent to an existing building i'm going to build that now for me because i am starting on the b on the zero board which i've never played with before i think that my first building has to go on a border right i'm just going to check this or if anybody in the chat knows i can look it up later on i think my first building has to go on a border and then from there i build adjacent now every space that you have on your board with a yellow pentagon with the thing written inside it yeah that is a bonus okay as soon as you cover up that x you get that thing you get that thing as a one-off effect other things that you've got on your board is that you'll notice two of the spaces have an icon with a spade with a number two yeah you cannot build on those spaces at the start of the game okay but that purple remember oh yeah refers to a level two card so your build card yeah you can only build on those spaces once your build card is level two okay cool um also you'll notice here it says zoom up completely covered seven tickets okay sorry seven appeal yeah so it is one of your things that you're trying to do in the game yeah is you will get seven additional appeal if you manage to fill everything should build on top of rocks i can never build on top of those unless especially fate which i've not come across yet allows you to do so cool you've got space here for your partner zoos yeah there are five continents in the world and you can get a partner zoo with up to four of them um every partners who you've got you place them from the bottom to the top and look at the colors yeah bottom is blue top is purple which means at the start of the game you can only fill the bottom two okay you've got to have your association card at level two before you can build on those right universities are here you can have three of them during the game and you build a game from bottom to top and if you cover over a bonus you get the bonuses printed on it and then you've got your association workers you start the game with one of them on your notepad and then your other three are here but these work in a in the opposite way instead of getting partners who's in universities which you put on the board when you get an association worker you take it off but you take it from bottom to top okay okay and if there's a bonus underneath it which there is for the third one you get that bonus okay so there's there's your player board um right next thing we need to do is the association board i'll explain the association board in more detail soon but one of the things that we need to do is we need to choose starting conservation projects now these are the base conservation projects that come with the game there are 12 of them we give these a shuffle we're gonna pick three at random yeah i'm gonna let you pick one up one okay and then i'll pick one and then what we're going to do is we're going to put them face up below the board now you can't see them because they're they're a long way away from you but if you look on screen maybe you can see them there okay now these conservation cards rightly or wrongly i'm going to say think of them as end game scoring cards right they're not endgame scoring cards because you can score them during the game but these are objectives that have been chosen at random out of a big deck of things that we're trying to achieve i'll go very briefly what these are this is for having australia icons in your zoo this is for having predator icons in your zoo and this is for having primate icons in your zoo so if you're looking at the cards the eight cards that you've been dealt yeah if the icons are in the top right i'm just going to put a card on screen this is this is an example card what we're looking at here is icons in the top right that's got australia that has australia on it so if i had loads of cards with australia in my hand yeah i might be thinking i'll tell you what there's a card there's a there's a conservation project scoring card here that requires australia icons i'll go for that okay or predator icons or primate icons you might have cards with that now the reason why i showed that card and said icons in the top left is if it has an icon on the on the very top right i can't get me left and right any icons on the left hand side are not icons on the card right i mean they are technically icons on the card but anything on the left hand side is a requirement yeah doesn't count as an icon but this nile crocodile is he's got one africa icon he's got one lizard icon yeah but what it means is you have to have three lizard icons already in order to play the card okay because he needs friends okay so don't think of icons on the left hand side as uh actual icons they are they are requirements so anyway this is kind of objective that you can be aiming for and if you can see on these cards i'll just put one of them on screen i'll just put this this one on screen when you choose to do this conservation project if you have two australia icons yeah in your zoo yeah you can put a cube on here to get two conservation points if you do it when you've got four you get four conservation points do when you get five you get five you can only ever do this project once once per player or do you wanna lock it up all right each space and we're a three player again so we can each do it once but once a space has been chosen so if you've done the two i can also do the two no no no no if i do the two you'd like it off and this is where these cubes so these cubes will go onto the card and if i do the two nobody else can do the two but if i then get five australia icons i'd be like oh why didn't i wait yeah oh would you call so can't have two cubes you can't have two cubes in the same one so these are objectives for you to think about oh yeah well we're speaking about objectives end game scoring cards right there's 11 of these which is an odd number literally get two each okay you're only going to be able to score one of these at the end of the game okay now you look at this space here whenever any player's conservation marker reaches the tenth space all players must discard one of their end game scoring cards right to be honest by that point in the game you've probably already decided which one you're going to go with anyway gives you a bit of time if you don't understand the cards that you've got let me know i think they're all fairly obvious yeah because this is another objective that you are aiming for cool okay because that at the end of the game will be worth it will move either your conservation market or your appeal marker therefore will get you points okay right what else do we need to do in setup uh oh i've taken that cube off put that cube back on because i'll be cheating um we need to pick a star player [Music] oh yeah it's sometimes good to rush yeah there is a reason why you might want to do the two first right okay top middle or bottom down middle middle is yellow so yellow is going to be the first player that's me okay and then it goes clockwise from there i think yeah so i'm going to be second rob's going to be third that is the starting player disadvantage you start on zero appeal i start on one rob starts on two okay speaking of appeal i'll just mention this now when we do income yeah this is how much money you get based on where your appeal is the more appeal you've got the more income you are going to get when we do an income round okay all right explain that in a second as well uh right what was the next bit station track bonus chip concentration yes that's it so let's just zoom in on this so there are nine bonus kits in the game and you just pick one for each of the spaces and put them face up another one down okay these get removed from the game and they are the bonus so when your marker gets to that space yeah you can either take that bonus that bonus or you can get five money if you take one of these bonuses it removes the title from the game similarly when you get there you can either have that bonus five money or that bonus okay so yeah there might be a rush to get the early conservation points because you want the particular bonus now while we're here and we're talking about this there's a lot of iconography in the game my first game i was completely lost i didn't know what i was doing but the iconography is actually very good and very clear yeah i'm not going to explain all of it but there is this the game comes with an icon overview which is what they all are if you want to keep that near you yeah go now great but i'll just go through these ones very quickly to give you an idea that means you can flip over one of your action cards to the level two side okay so upgrade yeah so whenever you see that icon it allows you to do that that is get another worker yeah that icon there is take a card from the display or from the top of the deck and that allows you to do it three times now i say from the display it is within your reputation range so if you look at the reputation track here and we're going to have cards on here in a minute at the moment this is our reputation range we can only ever take a card from here but if your reputation was here you would be able to take a card from here okay so that's what that icon means and that means you get three of the x tokens that means you get a university that means you can play a sponsor card from your hand or x money where x is the difficulty of the card okay so i did that from memory because the iconography is pretty good right nice that's the bonus cards i think that's it for the setup so let's explain how the stuff starting money 25 money each now money is fairly tight in this game you will be spending money to introduce animals um and your main source of income is going to be when we do an income step okay assuming you get your appeal up okay that's the main way you get money in the game okay so let's go through the uh the core mechanism of the game when it is your turn you choose one of your action cards the rules say slide it down we're not going to play that we're going to say put a cube on it so we're going to say choose an action card put a cube on it perform that action with strength equal to the slot number that it's in yeah and then once you've finished with the action that card goes to the end and it goes to there okay on your next turn you could do that action again yeah if you did it would only be strength one okay okay cool alternatively and this is an option you can choose a card move it to the end do not do the action and take one of these x tokens instead okay so if you if you effectively pass yeah and take an x token you still have to choose a card and move it to the end okay you might actually want to do that yeah okay i've just noticed all three of us have got sponsors in slot five have we okay right what do the x tokens do when you are performing an action you may spend one or more x tokens to increase the strength of that action by one right okay yeah okay you can go above five and some of the actions it is useful to go up to five some of them it is not useful to go up okay so that is the core mechanism of the game choose an action do the action move the card to the end we repeat that sequence until the break marker which is a cup of coffee reaches here okay now there are various things in in the game that you will do that will move the brake marker so it doesn't move every turn it only moves when you do a certain thing the player who causes it to reach here gets an x token and then at the end of their turn we interrupt we have a coffee break we do all of these things yeah and then we carry on playing cool these things are discard down to three cards unless you've built a specific university you get your workers back the first two cards disappear from here and everything slides out and you get income okay okay so you get an income whenever we do a break and then it resets to there because we're a three-player game yeah okay right yes thank you i'm always doing that i'll just explain how the game game ends again yeah there you go right let's start playing yeah oh i won yeah so yeah i'm always forgetting to reset things when i do an example right okay so the five different actions i think i'm going to explain the build action first yeah this probably makes the most sense and what i'm going to do you know i said i'm not going to teach you all of the rules in the game yeah i'm not going to teach you what the other side of the cards do just know they're better okay yeah okay the other side of the card is a better version of the card so the build action level one build action is build one building with a maximum size of x a two per space and available kiosk pavilion standard enclosures and petting zoo if you have a look on your player board here in the blue section it lists all of the buildings that you can build cool now the normal enclosures one two three four five you can't change the size of them we've got them off camera rob's got them all off camera so the size the size four is that there isn't a size four which is long and thin or around the corner right yeah that is the size for enclosure yeah and basically you put it somewhere on your board get the bonus for it it costs you two money two money per space petting zoos are special pavilions are special kiosks are special but the standard enclosures are foreign closing animals at this point i'm just going to show everybody a quick uh animal card there we go let's have a look at this cute guy the ecuadorian squirrel monkey right that is the size of the animal it's gotta be in a size two or more okay you can if you want to put that animal in a size five enclosure right but it's waste actually it's wasting the space because what happens is when you put an animal in an enclosure you flip that enclosure over there is no record of which animal is in which enclosure so right now if you were to play this card you would flip that over to the other side and you would have that card in front of you and you would get the five appeal that's principal you don't need to track that monkey you don't need to drive it right okay cool petting zoos are special and we'll come on to that when we explain animals pavilions have a one-off effect every time you put a pavilion on the board you get one appeal that's it so kiosks kiosks are special uh they give you money in income yeah but kiosks have to be there has to be two spaces between each kiosk okay in other words they need to be three away from each other okay and the money that they get is one for everything that they're next to but only for enclosures only give you income if the enclosure is occupied they give you one in one income for everything that's next to you and is that this individual spaces of the enclosure does the enclosure the enclosure itself okay yeah cool okay so that that's building that's that action that's how that works so let's talk about animals yeah let's talk about the animal card so the animal card and i'll show this on camera it's got a giraffe on it it has the number of animals you can play depends on which slot this was in yeah if it was in slot one you can't play any animals animal no if he was in slot five you could play two animals okay okay uh the other side of the card is better yeah uh so to play an animal in your zoo you must meet the requirements and i'm just gonna show you one with a lot of requirements of the nile crocodile okay it is a size five animal so therefore it has to go in a size five enclosure there's an exception here i'll explain that and that icon there means that enclosure that you put it in must be adjacent to water okay okay guessing you can't build water it's just the water that's right on the mat what's there you have 13 it costs 13 money and it requires you to already have three lizard icons in your zoo wow okay that's a high level so this is this is a pretty tough thing yeah when you play an animal it has an ability which is always printed on the bottom of the card all of the abilities are explained in a separate rulebook if you're not sure what they do but they are explainable and this is the appeal that it gives you okay let's just show you uh another card this is the thorny devil size one enclosure it has to be next to mountains cost six money otherwise no requirements nice okay now these icons here are icons to identify that animal yeah and you do get a discount based on partner zoos okay so if you have a partner zoo say i have a partners who for australia yeah which is this you see here it says minus three that means i get a minus three on this one because it has one australia icon you've matched up the icon if you have two australia icons i'd get minus six oh nice okay okay so you get that discount for every icon on the card yeah most of them only have one okay some of them some of them have to yeah if you've got a discount uh if you've got a if you've got a partners who then you get a discount i've noticed you've got that partner is that can only you get that soon so the association board will refresh each round okay each round every time there's a break yeah it will refresh so you re-partner each player can only have one from each consonant and each player can only have one of each type of university cool okay while we're here let's just talk about this icon here there are two special types of enclosures in the game i was going to give me here there is the large reptile house and the aviary yeah you could only build these once you have upgraded your build card okay so briefly speaking if we go back to the thorny devil it requires a size one enclosure next to mountains or if you had a reptile house yeah it would take up zero space in the reptile house right okay let's just go back to the nile crocodile on its own it needs a fire a size five enclosure next to water or if you had a reptile house it takes up three spaces so you don't way that you do that is you use the cubes it has a total of five slots in it yeah you would do that that's it yeah to say that's where the nile crocodile is okay so any card that's got uh an alternative place to put it is printed on there okay um yeah nice okay that's cool building in animals yeah building an animal um if you've got any questions about the animals in your hand let me know because there is probably very little advantage to me knowing what you've got in your shoes so if you're not sure about any of them let me know i might hold off that until yeah but that is the animal's action the next action to explain is sponsors yeah now there are three types of cars in this game this is actually quite cool there's animals the sponsors and conservation projects okay and this graphic on the back of the cards indicates the percentage of each in the big deck so most of the cards in the decker animals some of them are conservative some of them are sponsors and some of them are conservation projects so look at the cars in my hand i've got two conservation projects and you can you can see them because they're blue yeah now conservation projects don't cost money to play there is no cost on them however there is a requirement in the top left and that is the minimum strength of the action you can see here i have two sponsors both with three my sponsor card is in five therefore i could play either of these cards yeah but the level one sponsor card is play one sponsor from your hand with a level of x at maximum level of x cool when you play a sponsor you put it into play and sponsors have various abilities on them i'm just going to show you this one so when i bring this into play it gives me one conservation point one appeal and there's a brown ability there's four different colors of abilities in the game brownies end game scoring yellow is immediate yeah okay uh blue is permanent okay so if you've got anything with a blue ability on that is a permanent uh permanent effect and then there is purple which is in during the break right okay so yeah every card you play every sponsor card you play has various things on it but the abilities are divided into four four different colors okay your other option with the sponsor card is break x and gain x so if i did that right now and i chose to break yeah i'd move that mark of five spaces and i'd get five money and then i'd move my sponsor card to the end okay okay okay for sponsors yeah right next let's talk about cards oh yeah the cards card yeah allow you to take cards believe it or not first of all you break two and then depending on the strength of the action depends on how many cards you draw from the deck you add them to your hand and then you may have to discard one right the hand limit is there hand limit is three but only when break we break why would you have to discard one because it says on the card okay it says so all right it's draw two yeah add those two cards to your hand yeah and then discard any one card okay yeah now draw two keep one between them and throw away yeah an existing one if the slot is in level five then instead of drawing cards from the deck you can snap and what snapping means is you take any one card from the display no matter where your current reputation is okay so that's what snapping is okay that is the card with which you draw the cards right the final one to explain is association the association requires the association board yeah time to look at the association board and this is the association card right so you perform one association task with a maximum value of x there are four tasks which are shown on here ignore this one for now that only applies when your association card is level two to do this task you need to the association card needs to be in strength two yeah or more this one strength three or more this one's driven four or more this one strength five okay this one very simple get two reputation this one take a partner zoo and i'm cheating again take a partner this one take one of the universities the university will give you science icons which are required to play certain cards or reputation or increase your hand size to five strength five association action is to put a cube on a conservation project so you know we talked about these projects yeah and these cubes that is how you do it okay okay but you've got to have the objectives for the cards first let's first turn action he's not a first-team action player now the first time you perform this isn't going to matter at the start again because we've only got one work but the first time you perform that task it costs you one worker you can perform that task a second time on a future resolution of your association action but it will cost you to work okay for that task so if i did a different task that's still just one i did that task it would uh once you've upgraded your association card this becomes available to you which is basically donate money to get conservation points and it's in addition to your association okay now quick note about this one and let's just go back to these cards there are some green cards in that deck you might have some green cards in hand if you do when you choose this association task instead of supporting one of these you can play a card from your hand it goes up here and then you support it immediately it introduces another objective into the game that we can all do cool now there is a limit of three cards up here and once once a card goes in it moves the next one to the right once the next one goes in they move to the right once the next one goes in that falls off you don't lose the points that you got from it it just means nobody else can then and then claim it that the bottom three never the bottom three never move never change and never get any that that is those three fixed there's a number of players we can each of us can always score a level on each of those cards because there's three yeah in fact what i'm going to do is i'm going to move that there i'm going to put these i might put these like that that works yeah okay okay right are we getting there i'm good to go i think i think we're getting there i think you've got a rough overview of the game i don't think there's anything major that i've missed yeah as i say you're gonna have a lot of questions so have a look through your eight cards and decide which four of them you want to keep and as i say if you've got any of them which you're not sure about then let me know even what's they say if an animal anomaly requires you to place it next to stoner water be aware that that requirement still applies if you ah right thank you very much stephen so this one the nile crocodile five spaces in an enclosure on its own next to water or if i put it in a reptile house that reptile house also needs to be next to water he's right i remember reading it in the rules and i remember thinking that's not thematically no that iconography that that should have been touching that yeah so yeah thank you very much steven right um fair enough so i've looked at my nile crocodile it requires three reptiles to play it so i'm looking to see if i've got any other reptiles because if i don't i'm i'm probably going to ditch the card it might be a really good card but not if you can't play it i'm also looking if i've got any primates predators and australia icons yeah oh very very important rule cards always count themselves words if you've got a card so for and the ability of that card says gain two money every time you play a predator and it is a predator you get it it counts itself it doesn't count itself for the requirements okay okay but it does count itself with the ability and a quick look at the these these are icons i know that sounds obvious yeah but if something says it requires three australia icons having a zoo that is an icon okay so that'll you know you said that there's a they've got an action and the bottom they've got a color so that sometimes are they two separate things yes yeah yeah basically i understand the top bit but then i don't understand the bottom bit so let's all have a look at dan's card yeah right so that's dan's card so when you play it yeah you immediately get one appeal for every australia icon you have is that on the bottom that's the bottom because it's yellow with a lightning bolt right so that's an immediate one-off effect and the top effect is actually explained here yeah because you can see there's a blue dot there yeah so every time you play an australia icon into your zoo including this one yeah you may you may place one card from your hand under this card to gain too many that is called a pouch one ability yeah that's what the icon is oh and it's in australia so as soon as you play the card it counts for itself for that so you get one and it counts for itself for that and then you put a thing underneath yeah if you want to basically burn it burn an extra card to get two more bp but because card draw is limited yeah yeah right so we're picking four of these we're taking four of these to start off with oh petting zoo animals i didn't explain paintings of animals um i don't have one in hand so i can't show you what it looks like but one of the icons in the top right of an animal uh might be that little petting zoo it's like a goat yeah right petting zoo animals can only be placed in petting zoos yeah and only paintings of animals can be placed in petting zoos okay and they take a certain number of spaces just like the other yeah and you put cues on the thing you can't put a line in there no unless it's a petting animal which i don't think a lion is if you chaos yeah you can build a petting zoo at the start of the game okay each player can only build one petting zoo right okay what petting zoo animals do is they give you three money sorry three appeal i believe but every petting zoo animal you've got so the first one is three second one is six third one is nine but they are a special sort of sub category of i'm going to keep these so i'll just go so the disco pile is heat oh i'm sorry it's face up but it says you're not allowed to look through the discard pile i think put it face down as long as you don't accidentally draw from there yep we're okay uh right so if you've got a question mark with all the colors in a circle look i don't know oh the blue cards every single blue card has a number on it and he's explained in in the glossary so that is number two one five so if you have a look at number two one five in the book it will well gaming ramblings is here well gaming rumbles did a review video of this two days ago which i've not watched but i think you liked it it it that that explains the it doesn't explain it i think you choose what it is i think yeah yeah makes sense okay well i i'm definitely going down that route with those two and oh i've got yeah it's tricky in it yeah as i say when i first played this i just drew four cards rather than drawing eight and picking four i had no idea what i was doing i just said give me four random cards um but the first time we played it we were learning to play from the rule book and playing it as we went so i'm gonna take those two and say that one and this is my first time playing on the b side on the on the map zero the other thing as well is the game comes with four a maps four zero maps all of the a's are the same all the zeros are the same but zeros are harder than the a's and then eight async asymmetric maps okay so there's actually eight individual unique zoos all with different special powers and stuff like that oh cool yeah we're talking variability and replayability this game's got it yeah in spades oh god look at that oh i've got to choose that as well i mean i don't have to but i'm going to or am i yeah totally doing it right i have chosen four cards i think there's a recommendation in the book to say pick two or three animals and one to two sponsors but it depends what you've got if you've got a sponsor that's no good at all i didn't have it i didn't have any animals i had some animals it was mostly sponsors right okay we are so my choice was made for me i think i think we're ready to go i think we need to do this now oh yeah we need to do that now as i say the rule book says um that you're supposed to do this and put them face down and then flip them face up once you've chosen them um penguins so there you go now that is not a display that you can take from no but as you upgrade your cards your upgraded cards will allow you to take from here they can yeah okay so dan it is everybody is everybody excited yeah i'm tingling pleasure now i've got no idea um so you can use process of elimination to decide like if you've got a sponsor card obviously any animals though you can't you know you can oh because i can you have a size three enclosure no but it says no ammo oh yeah sorry animals so you can't you can't definitely not one of your choices has been made for you have i turned that up the right way that is the right way um yeah fools are taking the draw cards actually we're not great draw cards depending on where it is you might want to ah right association you might want to do depending on where your association card is where's the numbers on these oh yeah middle right sorry if i'm just checking that's right i'll have a look at the chart and yes it is quite long make sure you're sitting comfortably and that's the reason we started at 7 30 tonight because we're going to be here a while how do we boost the actions with the x tokens i haven't got one i don't have an x token i'm just taking choices away from you that's out there that out of play penguins are good apparently on wednesday night when i did a solo playthrough i had sammy the sloth how do i get an x action you could yeah skip your turn to get an x right but that seems quite inefficient every time you see this icon you get an x so if you're the first person to trigger the break you get it if you deploy this block you'll get three of them or if you cover up spaces on your board you'll get them there's lots of ways of getting them i'm going to skip my turn to get an are you actually skipping your turn yeah i think so sure yeah okay i've got a plan i don't know how efficient it is but it seems to me like if i if you skip your turn you still get one card you still have to move aside everything else yeah so i can do that okay there you go i'm gonna try it and see what happens right okay so there's the first turn yeah it might be madness but might be madness right so my go now i can't introduce an animal because i don't have an enclosure so i think i'm either going to build or i'm going to i'm going to do the association action i think i'm going to do an association action yeah right so i am going to choose the association action it is in slot 3 which means i get to do one of the tasks with a maximum value of 3. i am going to do this task and i am going to get a partner zoo in the americas take that nobody else can get one until the next break when they refresh and i'm going to place it on here which doesn't get me any bonus but will get me a three discount on future animals from there and then i'll take this card slide it to the end do that it goes down okay i'm going to take the sponsor action and play my sponsor the technology institute of made up istan i get a yellow immediate immediately you get an extent you can only have a maximum of five x tokens by the way yeah i see you can get them from play yeah it's got a science tag yeah and at the end of the game i get if you have three universities you get a conservation yeah i see i see so there are a few ways you can get this one move that to the end slides down like that right over to you then all right dan's going to pass again let's get another x token let's see if this works so i'm going to boost the sponsor we'll just move this out of the way now yeah need it let me know boost the sponsor to play baboon rock so you've ah right so you've got your sponsors in position five yeah boosted it to six yeah now i didn't mention this so i'm going to show it on camera yeah this is a special card that when you play it it comes with a special enclosure so there are a bunch of special enclosures or special buildings in the game a unique and this one allows you to play this one but it has to be placed next to a mount okay this is there six mountain ah so you're gonna put that on the board can i actually go outside anywhere oh that's side up i don't know which has to go next to a mountain and it's gotta touch my thing right yeah there you go it works doesn't it you've got a few ways of doing it i think i forget that you yeah so i could do it like that and that would get me it would get you two you get five money yeah so you get five money for covering that space and you get to draw a card from either the deck or from within your reputation right and then it also says oh you can't put it there oh sorry there yeah it also says each time you play a primate icon of which it is it is a primate icon so it triggers on itself and you get two appeal yeah yeah um i haven't got six primates no that's the end of game oh it's at the end of the game if you've got that icon you're going to gain a conservation right so i just need to choose this card now yeah so you want to take a card from the top of the deck or the australian pelican um needs what is that two water that yeah it's size four enclosures that he's next to two water uh after finishing the current action you may perform the build action yeah go and then i'll have that you'll know yeah sure i'm guessing it can't go in the baboon right here no no that's done oh that's already been used it's not an enclosure that you put things in got yeah okay okay that will slide at the end of your turn right so once your turn is absolutely done and this now moves down yeah you slide these down and this goes and there we go right so my go so i've got my partner zoo what i don't have is i don't have a building i can't do another association action because i've only got one association worker so i think i'm gonna do it i'm gonna choose the sponsor's action but i am gonna do the break and gain money so i break five and i gain five money because i don't have a sponsor card in hand quite like five money my go dumb okay i am going to take the association action at level four and i'm going to take the hand increase size university this one yep okay so that immediately gets you one reputation yep boom he goes in there so no immediate action there immediate benefit but i now have a hand a size of five so i don't eventually lose cards yeah so notice that there are other triggers bonuses here as well when you reach certain certain spaces so you you've got that little token which makes your hand size five and you [Music] so you've got to keep getting your hand up to five no no no no i've i have now unlocked my hand size of five yeah that will stay unlocked yeah you and paul currently can't take that same one because it's gone okay once we break yeah that'll refill yeah i can't take it again yeah but you or paul now can how will you remember that you've got a fan because it says oh that's not going to token it's not going to go back there's no there's more there's more i see a thing you've got all of these okay right we we're going to have a hand size before wiggles a component down off camera um so you want to get rid get using your thing you're all done there rob yep so that card shuffles to the end yep association goes it diddly diddly diddly literally nice me um who's currently got the highest appeal well myself you know what happens in the event of a time a card that says oh you've got one of the player interaction cards i've never i've never seen these in a game so pass me the glossary which icon is it is it the constriction the hypnosis the pilfering of the pilfering um if there are several zoos with the highest appeal you may choose the affected player if you are the effective player the abilities there's no effect but only players who have a zoo appeal of five that's what this icon means i'm going to zoom in on here there are some cards that affect other players yeah but nobody can be affected until the appeal of their zoo is five cool so if you've got a pilfering card save it yeah oh now everyone knows [Music] everybody knows dan has a pilfering card um kiosks uh a building action right yes and um when you put them down they give you money on uh during the during the income yes for anybody watching my solo play through the other day i cheated because the improved build action allows you to build multiple buildings but only one of each type and in my solo playthrough i did a build action of eight and i built a size five enclosure and three kiosks you can't do that it's a maximum of one of each uh i'm gonna take the cards then right now it's in slot five yeah so you can either draw three from the deck yeah and then discard one or you can take any one of the cards by snapping hey why it's called snapping i'm not sure but it is you snap it up yeah um is there one of those cards which is jumping out at you with like one paul's got another unique little enclosure it requires a reputation level of three to play it so i can't so you couldn't play it at the moment but i'm gonna take three so you draw three yeah you add them to your hand yeah and then you choose one card from your hand yeah and you put it on the discard pile and then did this already go up two it didn't go up two okay now right well i think the time has come to introduce no no no the time has come to build that's what i'm doing i still haven't got an enclosure so i'm going to activate the build action i'm going to build a size 5 enclosure it's going to cost me 10 money do i have a size 5 enclosure please rob one size five enclosure thank you very much now where is this going to go because i know who's going in it and he has no special requirements it's not the crocodile then it's not the crocodile it's going to go now i can start on any oh that's interesting yeah i'm not fixed to starting in the bottom left i think but everything has to go adjacent to this i need to be very careful that i don't get hemmed in i think i'm going to put it here so i'm going to cover this which gets me five money back there we go we have size five enclosure that is my build action done that goes to the end that is my go finished remember paul taking cards from this middle row normally so not you having action you have to be equal to or below your unit and what's the action that lets you do it uh it's that icon i'm taking from the middle yeah that icon is take a card from the deck or within reputation range now when you upgrade your cards later in the game yeah like the upgraded animals card yeah allows you to play animals from your hand or ones from the display within your reputation so it's only once you've upgraded your cards you'll be able to how do we get these when you do this action okay which is what gets you the main way of getting the conservation points is that action putting cubes on here and currently none of us have got any of those let's go for build you're choosing the build action which one building would you like to build i am going to build let's make four to build a simple level two you spend eight money that's right oh so you're spending paying for to build a level two build a size two enclosure which will drop here getting me five cash back yep you made money thank you very much okay falls down down how's it going so far starting to make a bit of sense oh yeah oh you don't think so um so i'm going to ask you a quick question rob and i know we're only short way into the game comparison terraforming mars the face says it all too early to tell okay there's the end there's stuff going on but i don't want to make comparisons no no no okay i want to get a better thing i will ask you at the end for your comparisons because a lot of people have said yeah um that hand symbol i have my own thoughts that means you just need to have a partner zone if you look at the partners who carefully yeah there was a shaking icon behind it so yeah it just means you need to have one partner um and the way you do them is yes association with the strength of five cool i'm gonna do a build then yep um i guess build a five user you're gonna build a size five enclosure yeah so cost you telling me because you can build the other stuff at any time it doesn't need to be like a site like a a petting zoo you don't need it to be a five it can be a one uh no petting zoo is size three so you need it in power slot three three or more okay um and the pavilion uh pavilion is one sorry what's the reptile house oh we haven't had a car that yeah that's only one we've improved the building all right i'll do a size five building so 10 money and money you've got a size 5 enclosure where is it going to go i think it's trying to work out where's most efficient but probably there i'm trying to plot where i'm going to put stuff i'll go there i can't pick a card you've covered over an icon so you can either have a card from the deck or you can have the european badger uh now this guy so who's yeah yeah but then if i put it there i can have a token i'm going to go there instead which has got cover that up and the token okay so you get another x token yeah and i think i'll gamble and take the card off of here yep there you go thanks i've got too many cards and i think i'm going to get lose them all in a minute i think so many cards in this game yeah you're going to draw a load and you're just going to get rid of the ones that are no use to you okay there are some really good cards but like that one we saw that requires you know three lizard icons that that's going to get discarded right in fact i've already discarded okay and then you shuffle your card to the end and it's my go and now oh hello i just had an idea right i'm gonna oh right how much money have i got 25 money i'm going to get a discount on that so that's going to cost me something that's going to give us me eight no i can't do it rats okay i can do it but i need to do something else first can't do the association action again is there anything here that i want i mean there's a there is a european badger i don't want that european badger what else we got yeah okay i'm going to choose the cards action and i'm debating whether to snap and just take this yeah because it's cheap it's a lot cheaper than the ecuadorian squirrel monkey and it's a predator icon and i am collecting the predator item so yeah i'm going to snap and i'm going to check i'm going to take that one that goes into my hand that slides along oh yeah i break two thank you so what we need is that there should be three away i think yeah so it was one two three four five i did two then one two three away yep and then everyone's going to lose their partner token no they'll come back these will come back yeah i mean the actual you don't lose you don't you don't lose anything oh it keeps replaying it yeah it's because i can't see the spares i'm forgetting that there's spares right there's the spares along with all the money okay i was putting off doing it because i was like well i'm going to lose it at the end of the day no no no no i'm not going to lose it cool okay over to me over to you right i'm actually going to take the sponsor action and trigger the break okay you don't need to if you're just taking it and gaining three so you break three yep and i guess and now we finish your turn which is finished and now we do the break so me and dan have to discard down to a hand size of three rob absolutely disastrous yeah it's not ideal no it's not ideal at all because i wanted all five of these i'm not gonna say that wasn't yet that that was a reason for doing it but it was totally a reason totally a reason for doing it well and i get another one of the uh cross markers that's gonna go oh yeah for triggering the break yeah so that's gone now i have a decision to make here [Music] not sure i just took that ecuadorian badger you steal my badge out i'll burn you burn yourself to the ground can i ask the question about that pilfering on number five on number five yeah but my card also says with both the highest that and that okay so that's a threshold they have to have passed okay so that card probably that's great okay sorry you're very cute and everything oh yeah you're going to go right where's my ex typing please ball i go oh sorry he gave it to me i have to burn all four of these lovely cards so that's that dog next any of these tokens that anybody's got no disappear no right then workers come back and we replenish the association that's the other thing i wanted was to get my man so that goes back to before dan got to use his yeah yep and then we get a new partnership in the americas yeah and we get a new [Music] [Applause] okay then we get rid of these two cards that's the cheetahs and geological requires rock icons in your zoo yeah so any card that you've got with rock icons on it cool now we're going into income sorry yeah and now we do income so first of all if we do mine yeah we look at where my appeal market is that's six i've got no kiosks and i've not got any of these unlocked so for me it's six money and that's it rob so i'm on seven you're on seven minutes kiosk adjacent to but they're not include they're not occupied so it's it's worth nothing but i also get another cross marker because of my technology institute yep so you get seven money and another cross and we can use more than one of these to boost you can yep just using these seven money default any any of the bonuses i think this is filled up next the kiosk one money for the kiosk yeah okay break marker goes back to there guns go all right well uh no animals played before the first break no yeah we're trying the no animal zoo strategy yeah frankly look look they eat food they make mess what's the point yeah yeah uh make one for more gift shops um if your animals got that symbol on it i'm guessing i need that thing you don't need that thing but you get a three discount unless it's on the left on the left so it just means you have to have that icon in your zoo which could be another one i see i see and it itself is that animal but that's it but it doesn't count for the requirements got it yeah um all right so uh yeah what level is your association for so you can take either that that or that yeah i'll um that how did you get your x's kind of is that your i've got i've got one free for that plus income from that i know i trigger the break yeah yeah i'll take the five hand limit please so you gain one reputation no sorry i'm going to take uh this chat okay so we've got a partner zoo in asia yeah i go there and that's it card goes to the end of this multiplier mark you give you the action twice yeah you take it yeah cool cool thank you right well now i definitely have that to do that so i didn't need to do that anymore i'm going to build i'm going to build yeah [Music] um i think yeah getting to their reputation we'll do it okay building a size 2 enclosure it's going to go there give me an x token and that's it done okay so i'm going to trigger the association action level three uh level three but i'm boosting it to level four yeah with an x yep and i'm going to put my chap on the uh universities again and another universe double scientists please okay now that unlocks so rob's got his first i got the first one right and i am choosing to upgrade my cards i'll let you look at the other side yep and then if you once you've read it if you decide no i don't want to do that you can change it are you ready so the break works the same i'll just show this on the i'll show this on the big screen the upgraded cards card i draw slightly more slightly more cards still do this card you can snap at three four or five and when i'm taking cards i can take from the central row instead of the deck instead of the deck yeah up to my reputation up to your reputation yeah so it's still drawing cards it's a lot more flexible did i pay for the enclosure i did i paid for now the other thing about the cards card is now you have a level two cards card you can progress beyond reputation nine okay so that's what the colors are for here cool that card has to be upgraded to level two if you want to progress beyond that yeah so that way that one's the cards level two this one's the association that's the best this one's the build level two each so one of them relates to a does something yeah an unlocker on the map yeah there you go you go right i'm gonna do the sponsors level four level four primatologist um each time a primer icon pl is played in any zoo any zoom gain free including now it is a it is a primary icon and also because baboon rock gets activated each time you play a primary icon you'll see game two appeal that is what we call a combo combo um i think that's what that means yeah as i said the iconography is actually very clear once you understand what it means this here is when any player plays a primer icon you get three minutes yeah yeah so if everyone can let me know if they happen to play a primate i know no no we're gonna keep keep quiet you'll have to keep an eye on the chat yeah you're doing it right you're done yeah damn thank you animals animals that laugh i'm gonna play two of them nice madness okay so i'm gonna play cheetah [Music] no i might want to get a partner zoo first so it is cheaper yeah so forget that i'm going to choose association i'm going to get a partnership in africa first which unlocks that so i get a special upgrade card oh that changes it yeah i'm going to upgrade one of my cards i'm not sure we okay it's going to be the association card i'm upgrading the association card itself i did that i got that zoo and i'm gonna do animals next time okay okay i am taking the cards action so first things first i break for two thank you done great too i can now draw cards with the reputation range or from the deck or snap yeah now does that mean i can take one from here and three from there yes okay so i'm going to take the red pandas yeah red pandas then i don't want that one so my next three are from the deck are from the deck and then i have to throw one away down just so you know yeah you qualify for that now yeah if you really want because that's good because you've got two primate icons [Music] and this this one here yeah and to actually do the thing on it you've got to have it in your hand so this yeah have it in your hand yeah unless your um association card is upgraded yeah at which point you can play it from the display if it's without those speaking of animals nobody has any animals yet but i'm about to he has oh got some baboons yeah your costume a large animal is reduced by four what does the large animal seem anything that's size four or more oh i'm gonna take break uh i'm gonna take the cards card uh sorry i put a thing on it so you drop two cards move that up draw two cards this is wrong yeah yeah easy easy peasy squeezy right i'm choosing the animals action and now i'm playing two animals the first animal we're gonna play is the cheetah i might move this across again so yeah playing the cheetah cost me 17 money but i get a discount three because i have a partner zoo from africa cost me 14. it requires a size 5 enclosure so i just flip over closure like that it has an appeal of 6 so my appeal goes up from one seven and it has a sprint three draw three cards from deck when i play it now my second animal could be one of the three cards that i've played but it's not going to be going to be don't forget to pay for the two enclosure pool i did i think they're joking i'm pretty sure i paid four but i did it while somebody else was taking a turn but i definitely put a five in and took a one out anybody wants to go back and watch the video is that your is the chi to your spirit animal yeah so i'm going to play the south american i thought it was a coat hall not a coaty it's coty anyway uh again i've got a partner zoo from the americas so it only cost me eight eight watch on paint uh it's inventive so i gain an x token and that gets me four appeal going into the lane now you can see here i don't need anything on this card now yeah so you can actually stack the cards like that so that the only relevant information really is the icons at the top yeah obviously the sponsor cards are slightly different because they might have other stuff on but here's a here's a little clever thing with the uh with the ui on these you look at the cost in the top left it's got blue with a brown stripe on it oh yeah the brown stripe means it's got an end of game scoring condition so if it was just blue it means it doesn't have an end game scoring condition you can actually stack them if you want to yeah and the brown stripe reminds you that there is an end game i'm also doing animals we've got some animals so first things first we are going to play the red i'm gonna play these two i'm gonna play two cards it cost me a total of thirty so i'm just gonna pay the thirty in there partners who's nobody's gonna lose right now you know just paying playing fans out playing flat out okay there's 30 cash so i'm playing a red panda now it's requirement aside from a level 2 enclosure is i have to have two science tags which i do have because of my university links yep and it gives me a multiplier marker which goes on my sponsors action we haven't talked about these yet but these are multiplier markers the next time you perform the sponsors action you perform it twice nice if you boost it with an x token that boost only applies to one of them okay and then it's worth six six appeal right okay and then i play my sloth bear okay no requirements other than the money ah the red panda lives in this level two enclosure yeah the sloth bear leaves here uh and his ability is he boost association after finishing the current action you may place your association action guard either phase one or flight so this isn't after you've moved the animals card yep i've got to flip my size thank you another six points nice so these two can now just live on the backyard and animals moves along to slot one then i choose to move my association there we go five currently haven't got a chappie out and sources of chappies yeah it's quite hard to get association with because the easiest one is there yeah that's also really nice just flipping another card over yeah i will move him to level three because that's just pushing the sponsors further down the line okay damn over to damn animal time we're all doing it yeah so my animals are a bit aggressive i'm afraid to say um i don't actually know if i can afford this i've not even worked it out but we'll see what happens uh so the japanese macaque uh pilfering two so first of all it costs me eighteen minus three i have an asian icon somewhere in your zoo you do and i get three off right you get three off so that's 15 and it has to be placed in a size three enclosure that is next to water this one yep right so do that first okay right and you get an appeal of seven seven oh i get loads of stuff should we do that in a minute oh we can do it now all right well i'll do that so two more because it's a prime minister's primary and free money back because no i haven't um okay so that that's this stuff and then it has an ability that i've never used before yeah so pilfering so from both the player with the highest uh ticket points and the player with the most conservation points draw one card from the hand of or take five money from that player they decide and at the bottom it says sprint two but i think that might be solo game yeah okay so ignore the solo game so draw the card randomly from all hand cards of the respective player if that player does not have any hand cards they must give you five money they don't have money they must let you draw one hand card you're one card from the hand but it sounds like robbed you can decide card or money i've always given you the money is it you rob that's true yeah well i'm the highest there they're tied you choose who breaks the title it's a good point when should we have done the points because that action that i could have got in theory gone in front and then it wouldn't have been absolutely good i think you probably do i don't know from both the player with the highest appeal and the player with the most conservation points oh right so it's going to steal from me as well yeah i mean i could choose could if there are several zoos with the highest appeal you choose the affected player yeah the effective player if you are the effective player the ability has no effects yeah if you are allowed to pill for twice from the same player those pilferings take place one after another well the first one we have to do rob the second one yeah as well i'll give you five cash okay and then the second one is all of us so i picked paul yeah to even out okay so card or money pull yeah naughty macaques aren't they damn will you keep your clock under control you you can have a card all right oh and then that was my first animal i've got i'm sorry to say i've got another macaque so me we said you can choose the order okay ability first and appeal after so this one again uh it's needs a partnership i've got a partnership oh this is your second animal yeah yeah another another a barbarian car so this one costs 13 because it's not in asia yeah um so straight away i won't do the points i'll do the pilfering first right draw one card from the handoff or five from the player with the most tickets they decide sorry okay so that's rob again and that's going on the money so you're going to lose i've just realized [Music] um and then yeah so then i get six points plus two points plus free money you just check in the chart you pick the association worker on that first bone you will only be able to flip over not sure what that not sure what that's referring to association worker on the first premise oh this one yeah so all right there's a limited number of these icons in the game yeah so if you skip the icon there yeah then you will only be able to flip over three cards in the whole game but where else do you get the people from limited again so getting the small chance of flipping the people yeah right i think um one from there one from there there may be some cards as well i need eight points right hang on you need the partners of the animals continent to play it oh right okay so i might have given you some duff advice i've got the partners here no no the other one so i'm going to let dan off because i explained the rules to him incorrectly but if you see what the chart is saying if you see there that doesn't just mean you have to have a partner zoo it means you have to have a partner zoo of the animals continent well i wouldn't even have to play exactly well because i said you only needed a partner zoo i'll i'll let you play it you sure yeah because i gave you enough advice as long as we now know what the rule is all right so next time you see that it's gotta be gotta be thank you very much then why won't they just put the symbol on oh because you might lose it somewhere else [Music] all right um i just need uh eight points um there you go cool right so we've all got a couple of animals animals i yeah know what to do i didn't waste a size five enclosures so you do particularly good right i got a card there oh right both of those are both of them then so we did so yeah you guys triggered both oh no no you did that one we didn't do that one yeah yeah i took the six money twice we gave you three money for that but you played another one yeah yeah i took another phrase did you yeah did we give you the extra two oh yeah because we gave you eight instead of six eight points that would have been eight that would have been nine yeah and i took three money and free money that would have been two and that would have been another two yes it has been done right but it was 21 because you started on zero yeah cool so you know i said at the start you can't build over water or rock unless there's an effect in the game that i've never seen i've got a card that allows me to build over water and rock nice but i can't play it because it requires all sorts of fancy stuff so i'm going to play i'm going to use my sponsors action yeah and i'm going to play a polar bear exhibit oh nice could i have the polar bear exhibit special build it's this one yeah it's this one so it's got to go next to water and i think oh look at that like it was built for it i get five million to a reputation live money looks reputation and every time any player plays a bear icon into any zoom oh i get to appeal uh rob sorry these played is there yeah and at the end of the game i am going to get points for the number of bear icons in my zoo okay i already have that which how many classes are there so i'm happy with that that was pretty good and then my sponsor card goes to the start and my go done okay so i'm going to trigger my doubles my sponsor double action you relocate the animals later in the game nope nope you can put animals in the special enclosures once you build them but that's it yeah oh yes i've forgotten that the the special large bird averys and stuff like that i think when you build one you can move them in not done that before as in as in the petting zoo and the reptile house and the large bird avery not the petting zoo because pettings of animals are always only ever played petting zoos but yes the other ones okay right sorry sorry i'm double hitting the sponsor so you're doing a sponsor for four and then a sponsor for four yeah and then what i'm gonna do because i need to do a reset and get cash i'm double hitting the break break four yeah four money makes one for money then like um number one yeah there's eight money the game only really ends when we when we do when we do it yeah nice okay okay right right now yep we do the break so hand sides i have two cards i have three i've got four so i've got to go down by one yeah oh yeah because you haven't got a university yet um my time two marker it goes yeah so they only last circle amount of time um workers on the cards income so i can i'll do mine 14 14 plus nothing i get 14 cash and another cross uh 17 plus 2 please 19. so 17 for this plus two for that so 19. got a one yeah oh i've got a little stash over there yeah 20. there we go and any other income for you uh no no so we're done with income and it's your go down there again is it okay um well that means i can use my association the sponsor resets that falls oh you need to refill that that's quite scary and one two three cross tokens oh for those people interested um i sometimes have a green screen set to one side so that i can literally just show the thing off camera without having to do that but i tried that on wednesday and these cards don't work well with the green screen half of the card basically didn't show up so that's why i'm using the black screen for today um what's the thing that lets you take above your reputation level it's the snap yeah snap lets you take any card any any card so it's a level five from the second card or if it says it on a thing that's it all right uh really warm not too cold actually i realized i didn't close the window so as long as there's no background noise temperature is actually okay is that the same as a snap no that's yours from either the deck or within reputation range how have you guys got reputation then cheating really just moving it up while you weren't looking no rob's got one reputation oh it's the little hat yeah yeah and got and i got two or i'm just trying to work out i've not really looked at the upgrade of versions of these [Music] that was it i'm guessing they're really good the upgrade stuff because i could get the upgrade yep and it unlocks the ability to do better things yeah and i particularly like the build upgrade because it allows you to build any number of buildings you know all sorts of things that's cool yeah all right i'll play the association then and i'll take before the australia the australia partner zoo yeah okay and that allows you to upgrade one of your cards uh build yeah so what i just flip it round yep oh there you go done right so don't know what the icon but i'm guessing it allows me to move one of my cards to position one i could do with some cards actually now i could snap what we got here we have an australian there's a little lizard [Music] how are we doing with australia i have no australia right yeah for the the goal for that i got none geological card is enclosed although i haven't got one of those so i think i want to play this but i don't think i wanna um yeah we don't have a break anytime soon i'm gonna i'm gonna choose that so break two yeah and draw three cards i could take either of these but i don't think i want either of them i'm going to draw three cards from the deck i will then discard one card but i will just say you'll go rob in my last go i upgraded the build card would anyone mind if i changed it to upgrading the cards card game yeah absolutely i've not really looked at the back of these cards yet yeah i'm trying to figure out what each of them do right i am going to activate the association card and i'm going to spend two of my ticks to make it a level four it does seem quite hard to get more workers yeah it is my level four jumps over to the university again the third university slot the one i haven't taken yet nice okay this one that's on one science icon blue reputation bring you up to reputation four which also moves me two on here because i'm covering our first conservation point conservation point which jumps into here which bonus would you like i'm flipping my sponsors okay very nice flipping sports comeback one of those ones of course the maximum total level of x plus one yep and you can play sponsor cards from the display yeah or to your reputation by paying costs and if you choose the second option it's double the value of x for taking heavy break still moves along the same number but you'll get twice as much cash yeah i go yep i'm going to do my upgraded break okay and do your upgraded cards action yeah so it's break two yeah and i'm going to do the snap so you take one card from the reputation right now sorry that's quite cool so basically upgrading that gives you more cards and earlier snapping in the power of the action yeah so you've got you've got cards and sponsors right right here's what we're gonna do i'm gonna build although it's at level five i think i'm just gonna build a level two i'm just paying for it watch see everybody i'm paying for it okay we will have a size two enclosure please rob nice to enclosure coming in and i'm gonna put it this board is tricky i'm going to put it there getting me 10 money okay okay over to me uh yes what super what did you build sorry i built just a size 2 enclosure yeah why did it get you 10 minutes because i covered over a 10 minute spot it is a bit of fun we've not got that did we move the break token yes i think we did yeah yeah i did we are activating oh um are we done yeah enrique's saying you can play more than one sponsor you can claim i can play more than one with the upgraded sponsor card it's it's one or more yep with a maximum total level of yeah x plus one x plus one so going level two yep makes it level three because of the plus one so yeah or five you're doing a level five level five player sponsor action i'm being sponsored by a talented communicator who has a requirement that i must have that to level two yeah and it immediately gets me another one of these yeah so that's how you get one and there's an end game condition on as well if you have down reputation at the end of the game boom okay the mastership goes to the end start is it me i'm building um size four please that's for enclosure for a cost of eight uh is there any benefit to doing a larger size than you need yes to fill up your board because you get these seven points seven points in your experience paul from playing it do you tend to run out of space for animals or would you so i didn't in my solo game yeah i managed to get i i filled every enclosure with animals yeah but i was building size five ones to to build space and sometimes i occupied them with all three whether that's the right thing to do or not i i don't know i'm gonna go for four for now and we'll see how it goes and you'll regret it later yeah so i'm going there which cost me eight and i covered up the get a card symbol you could have one for the top of the deck or you can have the marobou oh done right my association action is at level five sorry strength five and it has been upgraded to level two so you can see here my association actually allows you to perform one or more different association tasks yeah but i still only have one worker so i'm only gonna i'm only gonna do one association task yeah but i can do level five you're gonna score some points no hang on a minute hang on a minute i've done it in the wrong order no stay there stay there calm down it's all okay i'm gonna do the animals action first i'll put the worker back because i need to have my fifth predator icon yeah you're trying to get this aren't you yeah i can see yeah you're one away european badger i'm only playing one animal it's from europe i don't have a partnership in europe so it cost me five yeah um but i put it in a size two enclosure so i flip over my size to enclosure nice i get three appeal one two three and it has boost animals after finishing the current action you may place your animals action card on one or five it's going to be on one anyway you may place your what sorry my animals action card oh you can put one or five yeah but i'm going to keep it on one cool and that's done because that gives me five predator icons yeah on your next card then i'll do that next go okay yep done right i activate my association action because i said my second guy on level two yeah out to get me two reputations you go here you usually get two reputation limitation jumps up trigger another card upgrade which lets me upgrade my builder card which now means i can build multiple buildings as well as reptile houses and yes everything else and then the association slides to bottom awesome yeah you're about to see that how the donation might so does it mean now back to you yep um sorry he did yes he's jumped up with the appeal was that he took your appeal for your badge for my badger i did because i was ahead of you and i'm behind you this 25 spot is shaded there are certain cards i think that can only be played if you've got 25 or less feel okay he says on the card but that that's why you shade i'm going on the animal space uh there's one animal one animal and it is the brown spider monkey um so it needs a primate i've got primates already yeah um cost me 17 yep if i've got 17 yeah uh 17 uh so i immediately get two yeah um then i uh because it's inventive gain one two three x tokens for one three or five primates in you'll see i've got five so i get three x three three x doesn't matter how many examples have you got one here oh that'll make it you can only have five oh i've got four now you sure oh yeah you're four okay yeah um and it's got a point at the bottom yeah it's got a conservation point so you get that and it's got six appeal yeah that's everything i think i think that's everything now don't forget you can stack your animals oh yeah because the only thing you need on your animals is the icons right cool that's pretty good you've definitely got a primate you've got also got yeah you're ready for this then that's the end of it right there's no no more primates like there's no more there's no point i'm guessing there's not multiple no okay so my goal now i'm choosing the association action so i can do one or more different tasks but i've only got one worker so i'm only doing one task but in addition i can now make a donation and i could play conservation project cards from within reputation range so instead of instead of putting a cube on one of these three if my reputation was here i could actually take that one put it into play and put a cube on it as it is i'm going to choose that action i'm going to take a cube from my player board now which of these cubes do i want me what i could actually take the other worker and then i could do this that's interesting no i'm going to take that one so i immediately get one conservation point i'm going to get another one everything that goes on here because i have five yeah predator icons in my zoo so i get five conservation points here we go we've got one two three four five so i get one of these two bonuses yeah and i get one of these two bonuses wow right so big jump yeah that's opened up a lot of different things [Music] i think i'm going to upgrade a card and oh [Music] i'm going to upgrade the build card and then i'm going to take this bonus did i mention these bonuses get removed yes okay good so yeah if you take one of these bonuses yeah the plus five plus five is always permanently just removed okay and i get to do a donation now the way that the donations work is the first donation in the game will cost two money and gets a conservation point and you put a cube on it but the cube that you put on it does not come from here that's what all of these cubes are for okay so basically you take a player cube you put it on there cost me two money and i get a conservation point okay the next donation will cost five the next one costs ten the next one's cost ten so it's more and more expensive yeah but that didn't that was a task but it didn't cost any you do that you do the donation in addition to the other stuff um and then that's that that gets to the end i'm doing my advanced build action so you can build any number of buildings up to total of size five and you can now build the special buildings if you wanted to i'm paying ten to build two buildings okay three yeah because i want to build a level two here that lets me take the fraud lizard because it's a take a card from the central stack yeah and i'm putting this one here that's the petting zoo yeah which gets me a plus marker and another two jumps on there all right okay which gets you another one yep another worker comes out the second worker doesn't have a bonus on it the um the large reptile house and the large bird avery they limited you can only have one of each could i have a hold of it i just want to play around with the shorts placement of it yeah thank you very much okay so that's yours yeah comes to my hand yeah build action is done end of your turn once that's slid down yep alrighty um cool probably having the windows we've now got bugs flying even though the coastings are closed they see the bright lights if you hear any buzzing noises because we've got insects that have joined us which is somewhat what does that mean then in that context i've got full before what does it it's the handshake but there's no that's a good question i think that just means it's got that icon okay but why why is it why is it there so dan's asking about this card here what these icons are in the top left it says right there recording oh yeah i need to require a zoo of the same continent there you go oh my god that's what it says and this one's a bit special because these three are all well the first ones better but you can choose whichever one of these you want to right but yeah it does require the primates and the partners who have the same content that one so i'm probably gonna uh break not to take the card but to to play yeah yeah i'll break and i'll take a break snap and take that and you're gonna snap and take that one yep right i go oh it's taking a long time to get to the next calf section break section hey just one i haven't been taking multiple sponsor burns this time so oh yeah because the break on that is bigger break x gain it that's pretty good i've got a sponsor card in level 5. hmm who's got the glossary me read card 219. it better you can cover water and rock spaces you don't have to do this into a perfect set yeah okay that might work actually i think i'm gonna play it oh no i can't my sponsor card needs to be upgraded to level two for me to play it okay so um build card has been upgraded and placed my worker on the old workers yeah definitely need more workers so i think let's just have a look at my own game cards because i completely forgot about these okay that's a new one what's in that one before how are we doing for primates zero how we doing frost australia icons zero it's not good is it uh i'm gonna sponsors for five but break five make it six make it yeah i mean i could and i will yeah i will i will spend one of these to break for six because i get one of those back and i get six money when i get it back oh because you choose because i triggered the break right so the end of my turn we just got down to three yeah or five special tokens come off yeah all the boys come back workers come home very sad that i have to chuck away a panda these two cards disappear one of them and we do income so my income is 15. plus a conservation point i'll do that in a second get 15 money now do i want a library or do i want to play a sponsor card from my hand by paying cash equal to the thing what does the library do oh god [Music] i'll take university and i'll take the one that gives me and size of five under reputation it's really good getting up that representation that's really good isn't it okay that's my income done rob 14 money 14 15 16 16 money and the next token and the next stock but i'll take my x token okay because i've got a big stack 16 money down 20 22 yeah plus any special stuff no just that how did you be doing that during now do what uh there's you could see us this income as income oh you've got some oh nice that's the income over there isn't it yeah and that triggered that's great that triggered that each time there's a break you get one income i like it oh so what's this one then each time there's a break you get the size to enclosure and each the top one uh you snap okay cool i forgot my worker yellow player worker thank you very much yeah trying to figure out where you're going to build stuff in there there is probably yeah that was my go so rob there's you okay five x tokens my brain i'm going to break to draw [Music] so break two yep um i'm going to draw um where was it was at the end it wasn't what do you want okay i think i was going to draw four cards from the deck from the deck yeah there you go have some more cards yeah i don't think i can fit this in he's done sorry [Music] you have to discard one card new universities and uh there we go anything else we forgot yeah i think we're good okay i go is it uh one second well yeah but you can take your go while rob's deciding yeah yeah cool um i'm gonna go on the uh gonna boost this and go on the associations association for five yeah um and i'm gonna go on the end run are you gonna do a conservation project yeah i'll do the prime minister surprise there so take any cube you want from your board so if you take the bottom ones you get it immediately uh your application if you take the top one you get immediately and income what's not adjacent greek says no everybody's built adjacent hang on is that allowed yeah that's allowed or maybe he was looking at me messing about oh yeah so you get one of those immediately yeah which gets you one of those bonuses immediately and you're putting it on here yeah because you've got five primate icons yeah moving you another five you get one of those bonuses and then one of those boxes i'm going to be counter and get the extra work okay you get the worker and then you want five money or do you want to take three cards you can't and i take that one oh you do it three times so you take that and then it slides uh no it'll only slide at the end of your turn oh i thought there was something about you do three individual on this this is three individual takes but you only refresh this at the very end of your time you don't want the expert in large animals reduced by four immediately get two appeal for every they got one okay uh yes if we did that you couldn't donate because your card wasn't upgraded then your association card goes to the end right my go thought about this um i don't need cards yeah i don't have many cards so anything there really that i want to take no so i am going to choose the cards action a break two and i'm going to take three cards from neck rather than snap and then i will discard one card from my hand rob let's go i'm going to trigger sponsor and my sponsor is going to be a science museum i have to have at least four science tags and i do one two three four nice so immediately i gained two cash for every science tag including this one so that's 10 cash 10 and i get one um conservation every time i place a science tag including including that one this one boom nice very nice okay i am throwing away that card okay i did my card action you've done your action you've got you've got two you've got cubes on two of your cards rob sorry yeah that was a sponsor shifting that one along the end yep did you boost it oh no because it's an upgraded sponsor yeah and can i just check and it was a four it was all good that one that is that if i'm at nine no no no no i get one you'll get one sponsorship and that's if i've got three of them i get one at the end okay yeah that's fine thank you okay right done so just remind me sorry you have answered this but the green cards that i've got in my hand when you do that yeah you could have played one of the green cards from your hand instead of sponsoring and you put it down it goes here yeah and then i put a cube on it and then everyone else can put everybody else can as well i can't go primates again you cannot go primates again yeah okay um otherwise that would be powered um i think i'm going to play my sponsors uh i don't really know what i'm aiming for now what's there i'm aiming for australia or predators or not or what i've got in my hands yeah the points at the end are how far we how far your appeal market is beyond your conservation okay yeah i mean i've i'll give you a hint i've got no primates and no australia icons i'm not bothering with those two you're trying to get more of them out of here really ideally because that's the only other way to really get and i've just drawn one so i'm now i'm now aiming for this one okay i've got one in my hand it just doesn't seem to be that great but maybe they are great and i'm just not understanding uh i'm gonna well a couple of conservation points is actually six real points yeah i suppose they they get quite chunky aren't they yeah yeah all right i'm gonna do this sponsor action i'm going to boost it um okay let's make it because it's the strength six interaction i'm going to try something different the sixth sponsor yeah so what's this one out it's not getting a goal but it seems all right so first of all it gets me a its unique house yeah um our house the hell um and each time i play a bird icon into my zoo draw two cars from the deck uh keep one discard the other and it is a bird so that happens yeah um that's different from the cards action which is draw into your hand and discard that is draw two and out of those two discard one i'll have a look at them in a second yeah can you put your special a barred owl hut somewhere in your yeah uh all sorts of choices hmm do you mind if i can you want to carry on i'm just going to move your yeah sponsor to the end yeah i'll go on with my go i'm just trying to work so i've got a million go i've got yeah i've got 5x tokens i could do a build of 10. if i really wanted to um i do have a worker my association action is here i could oh oh i could do that okay oh i could think oh hello hang there right i'm doing it i'm gonna do the association action just check done right i've got two there right that's it that's it that's all you do and you get x yeah got that yeah so i'm doing the association action with the strength of oh hello i'm going to spend four x's i'm doing the association action with a strength of seven okay i am using three of those to go here and have a partnership with a zoo in asia which goes on here because i can do that because my association card has been graded that gives me an extra association worker which i will then use association task here getting me that university goes on here getting me to reputation and flipping two cards over one for that one for that boom um well it's gonna be animals and it's going to be sponsors okay and i'm gonna make one donation so five money oh he's filling him up and i'm gonna get move one on here i did that i did that that got me that then that got me that which moved that up which got me that and that and then done okay right big turn take association oh yeah bottom one that's it take take workers from the bottom up i always get that in on the partnership zoo and taking the australian partners what level was this it was level four yeah it's probably best to pull the coupon and move it yeah he has a reason for that so which one do you want the one yeah i'm sorry yeah there's part of the partnership partnerships with australia yep okay and that's that done that's it done uh just trying to work out how much time we've got left before the break oh before the break right uh probably still a while yeah it really depends i've got four of my cards upgraded you can only get four upgraded in the game and i can only get three i've managed to do all four i wasn't deliberate does that mean i can only do three no no you can do well oh yeah you can only do three because you you're getting that one but yeah the four spaces to upgrade i've done so the ones that you kind of have to get really is this you don't have to the building to unlock this you don't have to everything unlocks something yeah what does the animals one day uh it allows you to play animals from also some of the bigger animals and more powerful animals without you to have a level two bald eagle you can't play it unless you've leveled up your card what's the yeah you kind of got to decide which is the one yeah one of them you're not getting uh yeah take yes i can go fully up the reputation right now um in the large bird avery i'm guessing you put these symbols uh no you put if it's got it'll it'll state it can go it'll say i'm just just like how the lizards oh it actually says it can't tell is it so you can put them in that one otherwise yeah but yeah um oh decisions decisions decisions i'm gonna build being able to go up the right now i'm down to either association of animals the one i not take i either don't get to take the um sponsorship stuff or i don't get to play the more powerful animals yeah so well i don't have any of the more powerful animals oh so if you get to there you can upgrade your car yeah yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna be a bit inefficient i'm going to spend two upgrade tokens by the association at level four yep to go on there and take the new reputation uh library university no the two one oh i'm looking at the wrong symbol all right i'm looking at the microscope symbol all right let's get that that's the science um the science lab they do that they're a science they see i see yeah there's one that one's gone i just took it okay but yeah um where else there's a worker on here that you could i might change my mind there you go i've undone that changed my mind i have upgraded the card action i'm not going to use the upgraded animation what does that do uh it allows you to play a sponsor card from your hand yeah pay x where x is the level of the card okay cool and sorry what did that do again once one player gets to here yeah all of us want to choose which of our final scoring cards we're going to keep because i'm still not sure actually yeah uh i wanted that one but it's not really working out all right i'm gonna build um i'm gonna do a build action i think i know what i'm doing excellent maywee that's another reason why i changed my mind on the animal card because i was gonna use the animals card to get reputation but if i was capped at nine yeah i've put that in the wrong place i was going to put a kiosk there but you can't have more you can't have them next to each other there are size one enclosures yep yeah i'm doing a level five action just seems like a bit of a waste i'll do uh i'll do a level five building uh which cost me ten ten and i'll put it there to get another worker okay from here yep what do you get when you get up there two conservation points cool i'm done all done right so i think i'm gonna build oh okay interesting yeah i'm gonna build so it's currently five i'm gonna boost it i'm gonna do a build action with a strength of six i'm going to spend 12 money but i have a size five enclosure and a size one enclosure okay so the size five enclosure i'm concerned that how efficient your buildings look and mine looks like i'm almost running out of space well the size one enclosure is very simple how neat this is i'm gonna put it there you've got a lot of very great things because you're catching more bonuses or as i'm not so size 5 enclosure i'm not sure where it's going to go so i will place it here we'll bring up an x okay okay build action has been done spent the money did the stuff boom right okay clicking the build action yeah i'm gonna play one cross to make it a level five yeah and you can split that just spending ten cash to build a level five right being dropped straight in here getting me a plus and i'm going to take this guy what is it he's an expert in large animals oh yeah cost to play a large animal is reduced by four nice end of turn yep now slide down income take one car from the deck we're in reputation range one or two three or six research i'm going to take the association action which i'm going to boost to five okay i'm gonna put my worker on the fives so another conservation yeah and i'm gonna play the primary breeding program so that goes there yeah uh you have to have a primo and a partnership of the same continent this primate and this part so you basically choose any one of those spots yeah well you choose the first one yeah the first one is better and one of these keys and one of those cubes so i'm going to give you the two conservation and the two reputation getting you one of those bonuses on one of those bonuses and yeah yeah so a whole chain of bonuses don't give them choices paul will be able to choices uh what's that do again i'm going to play that i'm going to play a thing from my play a sponsor card for me well he has to have two workers [Music] um so that's that's going to let i'll do it in the other order for a sec so that's going to let me play a sponsor fraud from your hand by paying the cost at the level of the card right okay i kind of yeah that makes sense uh um so i'm just thinking if i want to take the snap and take a sponsor card what sponsor cars have we got in the snap right he's saying you ain't facing those of a border space and you'll see again oh another free placement bonus how are you taking a card from because if i do that oh right yeah it's immediate and then every time it triggers i'm just trying to work out place next one water space oh yeah the water playground even though there's like 212 cards in the deck that card has come out every single time i've played i'm going to cross out the title and write right he's really good at that but i can't have it because i haven't got the level 2 sponsor you can't play it i could have that not to say you can't take it out of the game so rob doesn't get it yeah i mean it is really good it's probably the best of that lot all border space is covered what does it mean border space every space that's on the outside of your zoo if you've got them all covered at the end of the game you get a conservation so this this placement bonus of the board is it talking about these yes so if you got that you would pick another one and get that as well would you get it twice because that's how you could get two workers you gain another free placement bonus each time you're getting the placement bonus of a border space in your zoo you gain another free placement bonus yeah i'm not 100 sure what that is i will read because in the glossary that could be mad powerful if you get two workers from it uh choose any placement bonus in your zoo that has not yet been covered it's not oh it's one [Music] that one that one those two yeah you choose one that hasn't been covered right and you score that and what the second one you choose does not have to be a border what's the back of the sponsor [Music] see i'm not going to be upgrading that anytime soon you've already upgraded it it's a really good card you are owed a card upgrade as well yeah i just could be the sponsor which would then make you play it i just don't think i'm gonna be i've only got two two more sponsors so two more cards that you can upgrade yeah i don't i think that's probably the worst one of the worst ones for me uh i think the association is really good isn't it because you can do multiple things over there and i've got all my workers out and then the build's quite good because you can fill in the gaps the reason they bag one today so it's all about watching what what direction you're going yeah uh you know you'll fill them up it's really only the big one that you want to be taking multiple times beyond yeah you're right you're right um the animals one is is just quicker to get your animal quicker to get your animals out and allows you to play the super animals yeah but that requires me to pick up some super announcements yeah yeah and of course what's in the field that also improves your um reputation for your yeah and it allows you to take animals play animals from the display as well nobody's done that yet have they because we haven't they just yeah i'm sorry guys um can you get any use out of it if not something else that's better for you to get yourself and if not then yeah yeah i think i'm going to take this one yeah so you guess so that goes on there i've already given you these bonuses right so you get the size to enclosure immediately nice to enclosure i have to put it down immediately yeah yeah um because it's a free building nice space there that gap yeah there you go so we've moved you this up so you get one of your cards can upgrade yeah i think it's going to be the bill okay and then you've passed this base you can either have five money or you can play a sponsor card by spending cash i'll play a sponsor card by spending responses um i've got to pick one of these in a second i yeah uh oh goodness i'm probably gonna play this which order did i have to do about it can i tweak that order a little bit for the relevance of this card uh i'll play this geologist just because yeah and hopefully i could have played it before i put that thing down but i don't know if i could just let's work it out before i put that two down before i put this i don't think so because putting that cube on there yeah i mean the chat can help us if you can but putting the cube on there got you these bonuses yeah but i think you get that yeah immediately after you remove the cube before it goes on sure so at the moment it does nothing then um but for each space that you cover that is next to rock game one coin well it's immediately oh and then immediately get two for every three appeal for every two mountain yeah this is two mountain no i think i only got one one there oh yeah that's one there oh no no that's not a it is that's a mountain icon okay they're free up here so i thought they were in the right moment and if i connect all the rocks which i have done at the end of the game okay oh no i haven't connected that rock yet have we ever done everything there i think so it was a pretty epic turn yeah uh that's got to move down but i'll just check everything yeah yeah okay so that moves down you get rid of the x tokens my go right so i have that don't have that don't have any workers but i also have that so i am going to play is any good to me whatsoever yes it is i am going to play a c total tank so i'm going to use my sponsors action in level four which means i can play a level five sponsor sponsor there is my sea turtle tank uh which has to go next to water and thankfully can all sorts of places it can go it says put it there i get two cards i can't put it there because i upgraded my build card i have right i don't know yeah i can put it there yeah so that gets me a card for putting it there from level 3 um if i get a discount that like a llama lama why not okay and then each time you play a reptile icon into your zoo which is this one i can sell up to two cards from my hand for four each nice so those two cards are going for eight money i've sold a moose right [Music] so i'm going to trigger association one to increase me by three reptiles no space and i'm sending two of my guys i'm going to take the africa zoo yeah so it's here triggering i'm going to upgrade my animal card as my last okay it has to take the hit on the association but i think that was the best way around to do it right boom boom nice how would you done oh you're putting down reptiles but i can't see any reason why you do that unless you've got something in your hand to do that right because i sold two cards for eight money yeah and i put that on the board that takes up space i see right okay so but i do have a reptile card in a hand that i do want to play right but i guess what i'm thinking is should i just even put it down some animals even if they're not yeah they just they said feel i mean you're doing it right on the whole appeal at the moment it's points i suppose yeah all points um okay well probably i haven't really got any animals so i think i'm going to take the brake card and move the sponsors i'm going to break for two and two and take three cars discard one i could also take them from my new reputation oh yeah you can yeah from here or from here i'm not up [Music] [Music] those three yeah add them to your hand yeah discard one cool you want to be doing that that yeah yeah my turn done yeah right hold on ah petting zoo animal finally finally so i'm going to show this on the big camera is it a lion squeak squirrel it's a guinea pig petting zoo anymore you can tell that because of that yeah and that that means it takes up one space in a petting [Music] i'm choosing i think i might only play one animal i want to show i'm going to discard a card but i want to show it to rob is that going to break the game no no no no they call them symbols i know but they're their requirements so uh that's not particularly oh yeah that's one of the matter would have been nice yeah it's similar to that one i can't have it because i haven't got any of them symbols i think i need more cards before i do exactly so i'm gonna i'm gonna keep that i'm gonna choose the cards action break two uh i'm gonna be drawing three cards and discarding one but again i can take reputation well do like a water playground yeah don't we all pull um definitely having that one it's the archaeologist yeah look at that oh that's the yeah the complicated one that's actually okay for me that because i've got lots of border spaces but no i'm going to take the water playground so that's one card two cards three cards and then i'm gonna discard one i'll say rob you'll go i go right i'm discarding one card from my hand it's going to be oh my god yeah talk about cars with big icons on so unfortunately by the level 2 build a level 2 animal card that's never going to get played okay this is going to cost me 23. 23. i'm dropping two animals down okay firstly i'm playing a thrill hold your cube on your animals actually you gain a reputation i get a reputation okay the frilled lizard needs a level two next to a mountain check any discount boom a discount of three because of the australia which is question nine that'll cost me nine and i draw a card from the deck please because he has sprint one [Music] and then i get five [Music] five appeal five appeal to 19 and then i'm going to play the new zealand fur seal so level five must be touching water and mountain yes and i must have a level of great animal which i do discount three yep so that costs 14 to 49 is a 23 that i paid yeah uh and then a full throated high one association worker so i get up two on there for revealing that last bonus gives you another five money which is another five cash yeah eight more eight more i feel putting on 27 there we go a bit better nice and then animals goes down to the end slide down double animals nice like when the animals come out i'm going to do the build action i got my new build action build one or more different buildings with maximum size of x play two per space um so i'm going to build uh i think i was going to build two level ones just checking if my appeal is correct because i started on one because that i've gained 15. three for the badger how much is the reptile house actually cost because it's a size five building size yeah both size five i i've blocked it all off now haven't i no space there i could put it there have you improved the building your build card has been upgraded yeah and you can yeah [Music] can i do that and another building yes it's so yeah it's a it's a level five building so how many slots you've got yeah five of them go into building that so if you boost yourself up as much as you like oh i see so you you need to you need to have it this action level five so uh strength five yeah i can't get there yet then i'm gonna do two level ones okay um because nobody's built a pavilion yet have they i don't know what does the pavilion just get what you want appeal yeah um no one's built um two buildings they don't have to be different sizes but they have to be different buildings so with a site with a strength to build action you could build a kiosk with a strength three build action yeah you can build a size one enclosure yeah kiosk and a pavilion guys winning oh you can have three size one enclosure with an upgraded structure because each of these is a different size you can't build up your three kiosks it can be a free level one enclosure no you can't go through the same okay right so i definitely want one level one one enclosure yeah yeah and i'll definitely have a kiosk yeah so you might as well also is that the only thing that i can build left is it with three then you're a pavilion as well right so that's where kiosk gets you one appeal immediately yeah and that's gonna go there which is two away just goes there yeah and in line with two things each space that you cover that is next to a rock all right okay i'm gaining one for this because each space that you cover that is next to a rock one nice he's a geologist then i'm going to put this there now is that that's just another one right for the geologist you've placed a tile touching a rock what would be good over five okay and the last one which i've g the pavilion i've given you the appeal for could i have built two kiosks no you can't build two of the same uh can't go down here because this is where the thing's gonna go so i'll go there yeah i'm trying to plan ahead here so you can you could build one one increase one of each one one of each size of enclosure yeah plus a kiosk plus a pavilion plus if you had the points a petting zoo and a birdie yellow color done you have a size one flying insect in the room with us right so did you give me the kiosk thing kiosk is only in inc i gave you the pavilion all right the kiosk is appeal in in kiosk is money during income sorry this thing is appeal i need this i think i'm going to play it which is animals do i want to play two animals i could play two hours but that's a bit of a way i could build i could sponsor all sorts of stuff here's my reputation yeah okay i am going to who's got the um who's got the conservation project for water icon i've got loads of oh oh have you got it yet never apologize for de-lurking i'm not saying anything paul but all i'll say is i haven't got any water right i've got loads i'll trade i'll swap yeah swap me the cash a llama for um don't have any workers that's that's yeah yeah otherwise i could use the association thing again i mean i can still do the association and donate but that seems a little bit of a waste so let's let's choose the build action and i'm not going to boost it but i am going to spend six money so if i could have a size 2 enclosure please once there's no enclosure and also a appeal um i'll have a pavilion please it's dangerous built one yeah pavilion could have a pavilion okay so pavilion is going to go there which gets me one appeal and this size to enclosure is going to go um here getting me a card which i could take from here but i don't want to so i'm going to take from there i've got an interesting question in theory we could fill up our zoo and never actually would be so inefficient that we never actually yeah probably of course the end game very probably yeah okay i'm done rob okay uh i am going to draw cards break two break two yep how many would you like so i'm going to take this nice looking science one mm-hmm like that one yeah i had the same i mean you can take it but you can't play it three more cards from the deck okay and then you're discarding and i'll discard that one all right cool your cards card goes animal time for me so i'm playing fantastic two animals okay what we got they're two small animals uh i wanted to play him in the thing one sec uh yeah i have to play him fine uh so the yellow throated martin looks like a little thing uh looks like a yellow throw dude yeah uh so that cost me seven minus three four money four one two three there's no requirements no requirements um hunter one reveal the topmost card of the deck if it is an animal card add it to your hand otherwise discard it so you reveal it actually show it to everyone it's an animal it's a common wombat there you go um can i get three appeal is that part can i potentially play yes do i need i can now play that as your second animal if you want you actually need the other so he he was going in there flip that around no my second action my second my second is the veiled chameleon um which cost me do i get the minus three again yeah in case it costs me eleven um and uh he's four points yeah and i gain any one card from the display um is his move and that's me done and it takes a precise one enclosure yeah it's going in a size two okay give him a bit space to wander around yeah while you do that i will also introduce two animals going to be the so pretty i need two science icons i only have one so it's going to be the chinese water dragon i need to size one enclosure that's next to water just the space have i got this symbol do you have a partnership in europe no and i can't i don't so you can't get one yet i don't think i'm going to be able to upgrade my association eight but i get a discount of three so it cost me five uh it's got sunbathing too so i can sell two cards i'm gonna sell that oh i don't want to sell it should i move this thing yeah this is what the new thing is it is the ex sorry the explorer each time you go in a continent or animal category icon that is not yet in your zoo get an appeal and two more i'm gonna sell those two cards for eight and then because i played a lizard i can sell two cards from my hand for four each which i'm not gonna do because i'm now down to just the cards that i want that's that done i got the three appeal now i didn't get the three appeal one two three and then i'm going to play a llama which which needs a size 2 enclosure cost me 10 money i do get a discount 7. now interestingly this is an ability that i've never used before flock animal 2. so if i had another herbivore in an enclosure this could have shared that enclosure oh i don't have another herbie or so you'll now in terms of icons that there was no primates there was no nope there's no nothing so that is me done super i'm activating sponsors i'm going to play my science lab to go along with my science museum so i've played a science symbol i did flip it that moves up one yeah i immediately take a card from the display within representation guinea pig oh nice squeak well my jacket wasn't hungry i've slid these down and i shouldn't have slipped them down until that's fine um there's nothing else i can afford so that'll be it okay what is hyena let's start the game i've asked you this three times what happens at that point all players oh yes sorry i'll keep up all players there's a lot to remember isn't it there is yeah um i think i'm gonna end the i'm gonna break and end it okay uh one two three four goodbye yes so break two three cards do your turn first so i pick two cards and i discard none or i snap what was the new one that came out spotted hyena compound i'll start doing the stocking isn't it keep saying predator until you see a real toughness of coffee and though i'll take the top of the skull down a minute anyway uh right so the first thing we're doing is discarding cards discarding cards i've only got two in hand okay i have eight so i'm going to get rid of those cards yeah i've got about 10. [Music] yeah so this is a this is a new type of card we've not seen yet this is release an animal into the wild basically pretty much as it says what you do is you take an animal card yeah that you've got currently in your zoo yeah and you remove the card yeah you lose the appeal yeah that the card was giving you oh you lose the appeal lose the appeal because the animal's not there anymore right and then you have to flip over one of your enclosures yeah but you have to flip over the smallest enclosure that the animal could live in oh that's cool and then you get and then depending on the size of the animal that you do that with you get conservation points and you get uh you get a reputation point as well so you're sort of swapping a pill for reputation for reptation and conservation yeah but then you can get the appeal back now this one reputation here i'm not sure i might have to ask the chat for this is this the one reputation for playing this card or is that one reputation for everybody who it's a very interesting card that isn't it yeah releasing another into the wild has got his own section in the rulebook well i'll read that section now quickly what if that's what if the animal got me that thing on there that's fine yeah yeah that's absolutely fine well i'm really sad that i have to get rid of five cards and i wanted a couple of them but there we go uh releasing the animal into the wild do not lose the conservation points or the reputation depicted in the lower right corner you do not lose any [Music] you do not lose any conservation points or reputation depicted in the lower right corner of the animal card you also do not lose any appeal that you gained through the animal's ability yes flip an enclosure to its empty side ah it is gaining one reputation when you play the card so the player who played that card gets the one reputation and then anybody who puts a cube on it yeah cool thank you so we ran this we've done this we've removed all the tokens got our workers back and replenish the board discard these two archaeologists burns and income i'm on 18. elephant sponsorship and a conservation point i'm going to have my conservation point and i'm going to have 18 money like 20. so i get plus one plus marker and i get to take a card from here which i'm going to be the uh there you go i don't know when this replenishes because this is interesting what happens if both of you had an ability to take a card from here what order is this done in i'm going to check what the rule says it's a pretty good rulebook anybody's interested in my thoughts on the rulebook um so break you take turns taking one at a time until the break token is advanced play all of the following steps in order taking income most of the time you can take your income simultaneously some effects require this to happen in player order which has multiple players having an effect that allows them to take a card from the display see it's already in it in these situations begin with the player who initiated the break and proceeding clockwise technically speaking we should have done down zinc first and then clockwise around okay yeah just in case you had an ability that took a card from the display no i don't think i have what have you got people well i've got i've got 23 money 24 25 26 27 8 29 30 yeah 30 income in terms of money one of these one conservation point yeah which moves you up to there and a side to enclosure you always have to put the two enclosure down just out of interest i'm going to i guess it's optional tonight yep there we go i think and all players must now choose one of their yes oh maybe we're doing that game yeah i'm sorry paul this one's going in the bin that's a final scoring card that doesn't matter to me oh i thought you said you got loads of wall trying i do but i thought i wanted i want a conservation card no i can't get that no no yeah no not unless i swap that for that while nobody's looking i see i see yeah that'd been awesome yeah loads of points are we done with the break um we've done all your special income balances and i've got this yeah okay roll them down all right off we go then and that's going to break resets back to me so i can totally do it this is all fallen correctly i think yes i am going to choose the association action at level five or strength five i'm going to use one worker to go on here i'm going to shuffle out to the right because i am playing a new one it is the reptile breeding program very similar to the primate breeding program i need to have a reptile and a partner zoo from the same continent and i have this little fella cliff the chinese water dragon uh he's a reptile he's from asia and i have a partner zoo from asia so i've fulfilled that requirement and i'm going to put a cube and cube i'm going to put on it is [Music] the worker yeah i do i'm going to take the extra worker that's going to go there i get two reputation which is an extra worker which gets me two conservation points and two conservation points so i got four one two three four that's a big jump i then make a donation so i spend another five money to get another conservation point right it's all coming together not happy about this [Music] yeah did that did that did that yeah we're good don't forget you also get to take a token from your board oh you mean that yeah that's what you meant oh i should have moved this down over to me yes okay so i am going to okay two markers to make this build action a seven seven strength build action so i'm gonna spend 14 cash there's 14. i'll just leave it here so i can yeah yeah that's right uh i'm going to put a level five and the level two the level five is going to go there and the two is going to go there that gets me 10 cash 10 cash and 2 up on that go you can because your card's action is upgraded so you get a card and you get a conservation point north and that's awaring yeah and conservation conservation points [Music] dragons come out nice [Music] uh [Music] okay isn't it i'm gonna go on the association card yeah it's strength four four booster if you want to no i'll go on there please i don't know i have to be uh what the two and one uh that one two wrapping ones please thank you rep yeah you up to there yeah that goes there done right i'm going to uh is any of these that i want is it a reptile it is a reptile it's a size 3 enclosure yeah okay um i'm going to choose the cards action i'm gonna break two and i think i'm just gonna draw three i don't want any of the ones on the board i'm gonna draw three and discard one and then i'll say robert you'll go and i need to discard a card which one of these well i cannot play that one ever in the history of any game i played i can't play that one either i can't play that one those microscope things that rob's collecting they are just requirements for certain candidates they don't do anything on their own okay but they might be triggered by other effects in the game but yeah oh yeah we're talking about how good the release into the wild is yeah yeah yeah yeah because releasing into the wild takes one of these tokens i got lucky with this a lucky card draw [Music] oh i've sort of done things the wrong way around a little bit annoying um and after we finish this game we're playing betoku and then we're playing golem okay yeah i don't know how to play any of them i've not even unboxed them yet right there's a little pop those two down what's the thinking going on here kyle's here hi kyle thank you for popping in dan should get his third worker for going up on reputation i've got three workers yeah well you started with one yeah you're not quite here yet no danny's not quite there next one so you got one from here yeah and you've got one probably from covering a bonus yeah on here yeah you'll get your third one from from there [Music] i didn't mention this but see an iconography if you're ever at 15 reputation yeah you gain any more reputation you get appeal instead one appeal for one i've never seen anybody get uh right association association for five for five what i'm gonna do is i'm dropping my guy onto the the end marker you are doing a conservation project i'm going to take the level 2 predator this one yeah yep i think you're taking that down thank you take a cube any cube yep that's 12 cash 12 cash immediately that goes on there because you have four predator icons oh sorry the two the two two you get two conservation points moving you pass there getting your five cash another five cash oh right okay so the the you should do that to get your third workers advice no not a rules correction right all done yes okay i forgot that we can do other people's uh i'm good yeah these these are all available if you have a reptile and a partner zoo for the same continent i'm playing two animals do we resolve the one at a time yes i'm really excited about this i'm gonna play animals animals for three yeah and i'm bringing out the siberian tiger yeah i had um so it needs three things three asian icons already it costs 30. but you get a discount of three so it costs you 27. you don't get free per each one if you have them in the top right you would yeah so 27 wow that's a big one yeah big animal it's got obviously going in my size five yeah it gets you 10 where was that that must have been there ten appeal two conservation points and one and one reputation which gets you two more two more conservation points yeah wow and he's just we don't have that long left no i don't think a few big plays like that we're starting to tip are we working yeah right well dan's just gained like 16 points from i mean it was a it was a siberian it's a big master i mean yeah there we go yeah i'm gonna choose the sponsor action five six plus one is seven [Music] so i can play sponsor cards with a maximum total of seven right so the reason i got lucky is i have drawn a card that could only be played if i have 25 appeal maximum ah okay i currently have 24 appeal oh no so i play that and immediately when i play it i gain one conservation point for every two different continent and or animal category icons so i've got predator and africa okay so if you can somebody wants to move me up one sorry i wasn't what what's happening i'm getting a conservation point from freddy's here in africa yeah i've got bear and america yeah yeah i've got europe and asia yeah and i've got lizard and her before not all of them i've not got all of them but that is pretty good and for each one that i gained this way all of the players gained two money so you both gain eight money for that i have some more cash please i've got loads here oh four conservation points i think we're pretty good yeah i definitely got lucky with that one and that's not all i'm gonna build a water playground nice which is this one so there's the seven one two three four yeah four repeal this has to go next to at least one water space so it's going here getting me to reputation which i can go there getting me a card and the card that i'm going to take is that's a good question i could take the secondary i don't need that i don't need that that's all of it what about the red kangaroo [Music] hmm yeah i think i'm going to take the secretary why not i can't right and that is my still nobody has played a card from the display have they no i don't know i could have played that instead of one from hand but i would have had to pay three extra money that's fine okay yeah all right i'm doing my level two animals animals for two yep so first things first i'm playing animals for five half a lump so you gain one reputation so immediately game on reputation gives you an x token gives me an x token i immediately gain a second reputation for playing elephant which okay i'll put you there for now yeah and ten ten appeal putting you up to seventy seven would cost me 36 but i have that so it cost me 33. oh 30. yes it's got two icons on it which then also means i get to draw two final scoring cards and keep one oh so the final scoring cards that weren't used you draw two and keep one of them so at the end of the game you can score two cards i will take that one i guess that one okay and another seven and then we've got this bonus yep so i'll try to get you a card from the deck or any of the ones on display now that display is all yours what's that last thing there it's an adventure playground it's very very similar to the water playground but it needs to be built next we have our first cube on a petting zoo and that is i definitely have the least appealing zoo despite my polar bear exhibit and sea turtle tank and water playground [Music] i'm going to take the build action building for four yeah or you can boost it if you want to do it i definitely need at five um and if i put one of them there for six oh and that's when i flipped for my elephant go for the big thing yeah i'm gonna do five so i'm gonna build the reptile land for five big animals ones that go in four and five four five one fives so that cost me ten uh the reptile land house going there ring up what bonus two reputations giving you a card yeah and i want the reptile one i think i'm just gonna check there's nothing else yeah it takes up two spaces in a reptile house yeah uh everything done there you did a build for five yeah yep paid for it you could have boosted it more and built something else if you had them yeah i'm just thinking if i need to save this but i mean i might as well put a kiosk in there yeah so i spent another two money yeah or a pavilion your choice kiosk will be more money won't it okay let's go get you three more money yeah let's do that okay thanks oh um sorry building it gives me one for being next yeah yeah right um yes i think i'm building as well building strength five can't boost it so i'm spending ten money could i have a size four enclosure which is gonna go there i think uh so yeah size four enclosure and the size so yeah because i i could at this point um a nice building it's not animals is it a different thing can i have a i have another pavilion please the size 4 enclosure went there i spent the 10 and i think i'm going to put the pavilion here now that icon i think is after i've performed the action i can move any one card to position one you check the iconography is it that multiple i get an appeal for the pavilion it's the one with the card with the purple and blue left arrow so i'm not saying you may place any action card on one yeah so [Music] it's oh association actions are good but yeah okay um yeah i'm gonna do it i'm gonna take the animal's card and i'm gonna move it to position one right i'm done okay nice that it tells you the animals are endangered or not on the cards [Music] yes so i'm going to take sponsors i'm going to activate it so it's already level strength five i can play my spotted hyena compound geologist gives free money it's three spaces next to stone oh is it one for all right each space each space you cover that right okay it's for covering the spaces not for the building right thank you chat uh so that cost me five so i play my hyena compound i'm gonna tuck it in there and take five cash yep and then because i play the hyena compound because i've had a predator i now draw a real top ex most card to the deck where x is the number of symbols so that's three so reveal the top three cards of the deck three three yeah or a asian elephant elephants i will take the asian elephant discard those two and then that slides along you're there done um is there gonna be another break could be i think i think there is based on how far we are still apart but we will see we'll see i know i don't have enough money to play everything that i want to play yeah same thing uh well this is tricky now because i'm sort of trying to think about the end of the game what else have we got if we've got any lizard house things no i'm gonna i'm gonna play the break card okay so break two break two and i'm gonna draw three cards three cards and discard one okay start taking my turn i think i might be doing something very similar oh these are rubbish i don't think i want any of these cards that's no good for me it's not really good now i don't really want that one yeah i'm just going to draw three into my hand well done so we're both done yeah so i am going to activate my animals card and boost it by one so i get to play two animals three two animals so first things first i'm paying seven to play a guinea pig squeak squeak it's great greek so that's six so it's a petting zoran yes you put another cube in your petting zoo and it synergizes and he gets six appeal appeal for those people listening carefully then i have australian card and i have a discount that gives me only cost me 10 yep to place an australian dingo which gets me three and then one for each predator items are three four five six seven seven more appeal nice boom boom and because i've played a predator i now draw one two three four cards you can reveal real real four cards four cards from the deck let me add one of them as an animal to my my deck so can't be that one ah i think i will take this uh bennett's wallaby which is another petting zoo animal there you go there's your three boom okay i'm done animal card goes down all right big move time oh i'm gonna play association association for four step boosted to five boost it to five i'm gonna go on there right and i'm gonna play the serengeti so that slides along oh sorry which means the next one that's played this disappears yeah so i immediately get oh the one right so you get the one reputation for playing it which immediately gets you a conservation yeah then you're going to release an animal into the wild yeah so which animal are you going to release into the wild this brown spider monkey brown spider monkey which loses me you lose six appeal whatever size you want but because you're doing a size four yeah you're going to get five conservation points knocking me over on the way and you get to put a cube from your board on there i'm not sure if you lose the conservation points from this as well yeah don't think you do if you do i might tweak which one i do okay yeah hit channel but it says you lose the appeal depicted in the lower right corner you do not lose the conservation points or reputation but you didn't close the conservation right okay so just disappear and that's discarded from the game you lost the six appeal yeah well you got five you got five conservation points yeah four was it gone yeah yeah no i'm just trying to figure out which one yeah which one you want probably the reputation yeah reputation he's the monkey from africa [Music] no the monkey is from sackett he's not from africa what do you mean it has to be don't have the africa icon on oh i didn't know that it says release with an africa icon into the wild should have to be this one okay so back in the back oh that's a big drop put your 60 appeal back on all right i might just tweak that then and then if it's run doing it we'll do the five conservation yeah which one you're doing instead i've [Music] it's got to be this little one which is a shame then okay it's a big change in points it's still six but it's your cube goes on the that rubbish one that so you get three instead instead of five yeah okay um and i've got a flip over somewhere the cube that you put on here with two reputations yeah yeah i have no there there i haven't done that right and i haven't flipped over a thing oh yeah you need to flip over a size two enclosure size two enclosure it has to be a size two this one if you have a size two yeah okay now i've gotta pick something from the middle right or this yes um well that's a shame uh [Applause] animals really isn't it i'm very happy you played that card yes because you're going to do it now because i've got a cheater yeah from africa i probably wouldn't have done it if i probably i left this one i think what size spray now i haven't got a size free enclosure so good to me can i take one from there yeah just one yep gambled it all right that was my association action okay not quite yeah so yeah that works um where's my animals card my animal's card is down here that's okay i'm gonna choose the animals action i'm gonna play one animal it is going to be a that got flipped behind my placement secretary bird which has no real requirements it cost me 14 but i get a discount of three it cost me 11. it requires a size four enclosure it doesn't have to be next to anything flip that over i get one conservation point and four appeal did red flip an enclosure for the dinghy this guy in the level two slot yep to get to reputation yep gets me one up on that track and the next and the next he's finished the track yes nice you catch the bit about gaining sponsorship i'm gonna do expert on asia which is a level five each time you play in asia i clean tsu you may build one for free so i get one because it is an age one you get a kiosk for free a pavilion plus a pavilion right and then the instant which gets you one apparel yeah into the cube here that's kind of yeah the instant effect is one point for every asia thing yeah you've got one two three four five five more repeal yeah cool okay right me i am going to perform the association action with a strength of five i'm going to spend two of my workers choose that task very busy though here we go i haven't given much space for it i'm going to put a cube and it is going to be it's going to be 12 money [Music] yeah like 12 money uh and it's going to be here i'm going to release an animal with the africa icon into the wild and it's going to be the secretary bird so i lose the four appeal that's what i got for it oh really i do get five conservation yeah very good and there were three times effectively that's three points each that was gone and i needed to flip over the size for enclosure secretary bird has been in my zoo for a day yeah i liked [Music] now did i keep the right card i didn't key the right card yes and because i'm doing the association action i'm gonna spend five money is it five money yep it's still five to money a donation he's getting close which gets me no it's not five million that cube has fallen off it's seven money i need to spend another two for another conservation point right okay [Music] yeah and then all other players get one more turn oh yeah okay [Music] okay right you're six six conservation points away from ending the turn end of the game and in the game yeah or if i do i'll then win as long as you two stay where you are yeah i'm triggering break break goes forward too and then because it's on five i'm just going to draw four cards from the deck all from the deck and throw one away okay shall i be going you can be doing your turn yeah i'm doing animals see if i can catch pull up i'll build two animals in my lovely uh reptile house um so the first one is the iconic komodo dragon which needs to uh asia which i have got some put two on there right is that how i do it uh it takes up two spaces in a reptile house yeah and then i gain one for each asia icon in all zoos maximum of eight and i think there is eight on the board i've got i've got two uh i've got one two three four five six that's eight okay so you get eight appeal plus the two so ten appear in total ten appeal and uh just played in asia get a pavilion is there any placement restrictions on the pavilion which is just one appeal yeah there's nothing that should have given me the money so close yeah i'm done then that tells me how close you are to ending it yeah which is rixie for me so i think now this is the thing i might now be looking at sponsor cards from here if any of them are any good and they're not so i think for me it's going to be animals for two which is one animal and it's going to be can you get a bonus every time did i put down the pavilion in that go you didn't just this i gave you the one all right i didn't know if i played we gave you the ten and then we gave you the extra one i was more thinking because the geologist would have given me a money but it wouldn't be quite enough okay so i am going to play long build vulture from asia so i get a discount so it cost me 17. it requires a size 4 enclosure that's next to mountains it's the one that the secretary bird was in left a bit of a mess but you know it requires one science icon which i have it's got scavenging three another ability we haven't seen yet so i shuffle the discard pile which is huge the discard pile gets shuffled i draw three cards from it add one to my hand i probably should be reveal three cards i know it's draw three because it's um it's secret okay i also get five appeal one of those and a reputation which gets me another one of those is very very close right one two three i'm going to add one of those to my hand and i'll say rob it's your go okay so my action is going to get rid of sponsors and take the money because i'm yeah people in cash flow problem i'm going to spend two of these to make it a six i think one of them to make it a five so i immediately gained ten from that and then it triggers the break oh so again one of them for triggering the break yeah one of them also that's income without a second so okay handsome hand size i've got three three four i've got three can have five i've got three i'm just going to chuck these three special tokens come off we don't have no special tokens those back these two cards disappear what's going to happen here at the end um it's exciting isn't it yeah right rob we do your income first because you triggered the break yep so i get another one of these yep and i get to take a card from the display income that's about my income 26 27 28 29 29's 59 minutes yep you're taking a card from the display and yeah damn your income uh 28 now does a pavilion count next to kiosk so 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 38 okay and you get a size two yeah uh enclosure which is and you get a conservation point and i have a size 2 which is actually going to get me seven points oh that's pretty good because i've filled up the whole map all the way up yeah if that fills your mouth i can't do it you gain seven appeal does that count trigger on my turn it's in the rule book if it happens in the break i'll check the rule book in a second because ideally i'd like another go [Music] yeah so playing this again if that was the case i wouldn't but we'll do mine and then we'll we'll see um i get a conservation point you you've surely got to get an action i get an action isn't it it's no because it's whoever triggers it yeah the turn of the person who triggers okay so let's see what happens don't get the oh the same thing because you're the one who's on the cross the player who triggered the end of the game will complete their turn and all of the players will take one more turn if the end of the game is triggered during the break all players will take one more time okay so okay we all get one more that's good because i wouldn't have put it down otherwise i don't think and we are now on our final turn of the game all that cash so how many points can we get and this is really bad because my animals card is there and i don't have any x tokens yeah i can't get my difference association up pineapple subtitles right so these lovely animals that i have in my hand so pull the points at the end yep right now yeah that would go there you are on one point the conservation marker goes to the lowest numbered appeal space within its green section okay so if i start moving up this track ticket trap every one is worth a point yeah every conservation is worth three points okay effectively yeah i see you're currently on one point okay three hours [Music] my options are very very limited because i can't play any animals yeah me too i've got one thing i can do yeah same here i've got two whether that one thing is enough and we've got final scoring card as well is money worth anything at the end i don't believe that i've got i've got three things four things that are going to get me points whose goal is it yours right i've got four this is your last point of the game i might as well play this on open open and talk you through it shall i so i could play the animal which is going to be nine points effectively one plus six yeah what do you say about money at the end not worth it okay so that's nine six appeal plus a consequence that's nine points so that's actually boost it right that's pretty good and then i've got i can play there get me to the end of that oh your second option yeah is that which will get me three points that's not worth doing um because of my end game scoring card okay um i could i can't do that because i can't get enough tokens pretty good yeah i think that's the job so you choose the animal action we're going on the animals into strength two which allows you to play one animal card yeah which is he play the animal do you have a size three enclosure for it oh it takes up two in a lizard house yeah nice what is it african spurned tortoise spurred spurred so firstly nothing else triggers off that i don't think no no um so uh you may sell up to three cards from hand doesn't matter um so that goes up by six and that goes on conservation and it doesn't trigger any bonuses um yeah okay last turn of the game for dan has been taken yeah and you flip over uh no i put him in there you put him there yeah yeah right so my go i'm gonna play sponsors it's sponsors strength five which allows me to play a six strength sponsor so i could play this doesn't do anything i could play this oh hello oh i think that's actually more oh no i can't play that because you can only have right so i can't play that so it's got to be this one which is my expert in large animals yeah which basically means when i play it for each large animal i have yeah um i get to appeal okay and i only have two large animals so it's not very good six points four two large rules yeah so that's to appeal that's worth six but i think that's i think that's all i could do you know the only other option was association which would actually get me one conservation yeah if i went on association i could do oh no no no no hang on hang on one two three four yep no i can get more yes i can i don't do sponsors i do association it's association foot two oh i know i need three yeah but i was exactly the same i was once i need i need a partner university uh yeah a partner partner zoo okay at six i could have then got to two conservation plus donated for an extra one and i could have gone one two three ah no x tokens have i got no x tokens hiding obviously have you checked your sleeve now i could build it would be a build for four one two three four five six spaces so i can't complete my board because if i did that would be that yeah so i think he's got to be the sponsor he's got to be the expert in large animals it's for appeal one two three four and gonna come down to end game scoring isn't it mine isn't very high yeah i think you've got this i think that's at least stephen believes that maybe he's got an ace up my sleeves no way stephen no sleeves no things right right all i can get um play my association action your way ahead and boost it to five association five yeah yep which allows me to claim this yep i'm gonna be going for the yep that it's the game the australian bonus thing can okay i've got four takeoffs because it gets me five in total jump so how many australia icons you get five conservation point jobs one two three five even with the bonus points i'm not going to catch up yeah okay so if we went away check that on the video yeah we can check out the video yeah it doesn't actually matter cool so what do we do now so final game scoring um scorecards so my scorecard is for supporting conservation projects i have supported three of them i get one right good old final scoring carte yep uh i get research sue i gained for every research icons in my zoo wow up to six but it caps at four yeah but still that gets me [Music] that's huge okay and then i have a large animal zoo i have two large animals yep uh elephants and fur seals let's do another two another two wow hey pretty good done uh i've got favorite zoo again thingy for the reputation of your zoo i've got you get three three yeah three conservation points no yeah which so i have um bear icons i'd forgotten all about that yeah i only have two so i've got nothing okay quite a few i get another six from this science lab six oh sorry another two sorry i got two conservation points oh hello i'm getting caught up in last year uh now oh yeah i didn't get that one which is one another one because you've had a big end game absolutely big end game and another one another one yeah oh right it's not no but i've got um it did jump up at the end six primates have i got six primates one two i don't think i have three four you had five but you were left one one you left one three yeah didn't have that and then i've got this one which is all rock spaces are connected which is one one of them uh you've got something adjacent to every single workspace yeah it's all filled up yeah well done that's it so that goes there [Music] that goes there and that goes there used to draw so i think me and rob might have drawn rob you have four points i have four points four points and dan has 22 points so we have a winner congratulations dan thanks i will just check to see if there is a tie break don't forget the sponsor cards within gamer switch the sponsor yeah we've done that yeah okay yeah uh in case of a tie the tied player who supported the most conservation project wins so i slightly beat you on a tie for three against two that's right right initial thoughts but it's big and meaty yeah i don't feel it's very much like terraforming mars right i get the initial comparison of oh it's got these tags which you're synergizing with but i always do terraforming mars as a engine generator where you're putting a powerful economy and then smashing towards fixed targets right this doesn't have that feel for me okay this feels far more a more fluid approach where there is no not an economy as such you're using these cars to keep cycling through right so i like it very engaging very nice brain burning happily play it again there's a lot of things i'll do differently next time yeah it was your first game yep um yeah yeah really good but you know i wouldn't compare it to rolling mars done you haven't played terraforming mars it's terrifying so just like you know dan hasn't played terraforming he's so you can't compare it to that with your initial thoughts on the game if terraforming mars is like this i'll definitely want him to play terrifying mars is a lot simpler right i really enjoyed it right and one question i've got is the way the end game triggers if you're the first person that triggers end game yeah you've kind of got to save all your points for that last turn somehow is that right i can't quite get my head around the end [Music] i suppose if you're really far ahead that's the other yeah i mean you were right to trigger it because you were ahead of the choice i triggered it but he couldn't he could have chosen not i could have learned the enclosure so you were right to trigger it interesting i think yeah what i'd like to see is a few more games because it feels like no matter how well you play if you're if you end your turn when you've only maybe scored one point instead of when you had another turn and could have scored 10 points yeah yeah and it depends on where the other players are well i'm wondering is you do all of that and it might come down to how well you play the last turn just because of the way the mechanic of the end goes you can see that if somebody's got loads of enclosures their animals card is on five and they've got loads of money and you're about to give them one more turn yeah then you might not want to end it you might want to see and wait till what they do but then again you can use you can't do anything else no exactly so it's saying but not yeah so save it for a big final punch but the danger then is you muck it up and yeah miss time it yeah you've got two things so this is the first full multiplayer game that i've played there is a solo mode which is really good you actually play a fixed number of turns right and then you've got a score zero if you score zero you win right you are on a fixed number of turns solo mode is quite good in the this game is fairly low player interaction yeah so the solo mode is you're kind of just playing the game actually normally the one bit of player interaction that mucked me up lately was him him pilfering that pilfering that one yeah because it was the one card and one guy needed to get the uh preheated synergy right yeah it would be interesting to know what might have happened if i'd ended it when i you know when i ran out money to do the second term what would have happened if you had enough money but how would it look i don't know just from that end game because rob's end game scoring was going to happen anyway yeah i don't think there's anything you did at the end but yeah boosted that very much yeah sure whilst i got an extra one of these it wasn't great because it was large animal zoo which is not enough big animals yeah it was something else that was equally i didn't have the things yeah so although i had two cards i didn't get that one went really well i got the four points on that one but that one i wasn't i was i had one more elephant card so i was never going to get more than that yeah um i think i did miss out on on those recognizing tonight because these jump forward faster as you get into here yeah i think i neglected this yeah my my two final scoring cards were supporting as many of these as you can yeah but you had to do three just to get one point yeah or empty spaces in the zoo well i was planning on building and filling the board so yeah that was no good yeah so my thoughts on this game has to say this is the first time i've played it multiplayer to the end the learning game at essen was just a learning game where we only played till the first break yeah because we were literally learning the game as we were reading the rules i then played the game a couple of weeks ago the local club we got about 80 of the way through yeah and then ran out of time so this is the first multiplayer game i've played like a play two player yeah yeah yeah plays one to four i can see the comparisons to terraforming mars in some aspects of the game the cards you know you look at these cards the flavors you look at the cards there's tags yeah they're not called tags but they are they are tags there's a cost to play them yeah right and everything else there's pre-requisites there's abilities yeah there's pre-requisites abilities there's combos there's a bit of engine building but not as much as terraforming mars um there is also the reform in mars happens at the end of a round when everybody passes right in this it happens when there's a break yeah so it's right other than that i'm not seeing any similarities whatsoever yeah there's a heck there's a hex map group but again it's you're building your own it's it's yeah i mean this is just personal opinion so if someone feels like oh no this is fun but this is one of the big talking points of the game man yeah i'm interested to see what the people in the chat think is yeah having now seen the video or if you've played the game yourself do you are you somebody that thinks this is terraforming mars with a zoo because yeah i don't think it is i think i think this is less accessible than terraforming mars this is never going to replace terraforming mars it's never going to replace terraforming mars for me but it's also never going to replace terraforming mars but where terraforming mars is because this is a lot less accessible because it is it is much heavier it's also longer than terraforming mars yeah it was a bit more solo interaction other than grabbing cards from here and what downboard there is there is elements of it but if there's not that map fight you can get on that have you ever played planet zoo on the computer no so i love planet zoo and the planet coaster game and what they've got in this from that is the notion of you've got to put animals in the right places with the right things right so the concept of tags on animals was really familiar to me and i really liked that aspect it felt very thematic i i also like the thematic connection i'm somebody who feels terraforming mars it's thematic yeah terrifying mars you build a giant space mirror and the effect that that has on the game is like oh yeah i can see that you know it's expensive it generates heat it does this yeah and it's it's almost the same yeah like you said about that crocodile meeting his friends and stuff that i really like that aspect yeah yeah yeah so yeah it's a good game it's it's hot it's new it's probably quite expensive it's solid yeah [Music] the people who have played together happily who i wouldn't introduce this to exactly just it's the next yeah yeah it's a couple of steps so what you're saying is if i play terraforming miles now it should be a breeze it's a different yeah you you dr it has cards and it has a huge deck of cards and you won't go through them all but you draft the cards but play in the cards cost you money as i say when you play terraforming miles you will go oh yeah the card bit is similar yeah but terrifying almost does not have a display yeah it doesn't have this yeah and there's so much it's very different very very different in my personal opinion but saying that i think the designer of this game has played terraform in mars because the cards the way the cards work is is a bit similar cool this element this um you've got to have a tag of this variety in order to play the card the cards update especially the science ones yeah yes i recognize a similar element that you're it often leads you down particular path because yeah you can play a lot with that can't you without ever having the same game this game we might never get those yeah i'm somebody who believes um increased variability means increased replayability yeah there are some people who disagree with that but i think that makes and this game is massively replayable here's all of the cards we didn't even see yeah oh and what was your map like as well my map was slightly different i didn't start with the size three enclosure or the site or the kiosk but what did you have instead nothing wow you just made it this is a hard amount more difficult yeah this is a harder map but if we just have a look at so was you a disadvantage i was a disadvantage in a different area yeah i played it before ah so this is number four this is one of the variant maps that you can use this is a more difficult one again yeah but again different layout different stuff on there and this has a special ability that once uh once during your turn if this is connected you can discard one card for three money at any time oh that's cool on some of them these are slightly different as well yeah nice um so yeah it's just just slightly different yeah so it encourages you to build out from that corner yes as soon as that's connected you've got this you've got this special ability anyway we are we are all done um so for those people that have watched us all the way through thank you very much if you've either been watching live or if you're watching back afterwards and as mentioned at the start this was not a sponsored video in any way so these videos are only made possible through the support of the patreon campaign if you want to help from the channel please consider supporting me at patreon.com forward slash gaming rules but obviously like the video subscribe to the channel if you're not already subscribed i will be 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