New York Zoo - Playthrough & Review (Uwe Rosenberg Series)

hi everyone my name is moani and i'm naveen from before you play today we have another playthrough for you this time it is for new york zoo yeah this one is a one to five player new ue rosenberg game it came out this year just recently uh it is now available and it is by capstone games that's right and so overall rosenberg is kind of like a master of the polyamor tile design definitely i would say so this is another uh one of those designs it does include polyamor tiles but it's done in a little bit of a different way we are building our own personal new york zoos yes yeah because new york the bronx zoo i think is like the big famous zoo in new york oh okay so i don't know it's his model after it but so this also means there are going to be a lot of cute little animal meeples and meeples yeah so we are going to see how it plays but before we get started if you guys can do some big favor turn on your klingon subtitles just in case we make mistakes we can correct them there and if you like to see more videos like this please consider subscribing and with that we're going to get started so if you please direct your attention to this end of the table we are all set up for a two-player game of new york zoo as you can see we have our own personal zoos here yes and a lot of other things going on in this kind of a newish style looking board right yeah this is technically the board yes it houses a lot of different uh of these polyamino shapes that are going to be the enclosures for animals as well as the different animals themselves and so in this game we are building our own zoos it is a race total race there are no points in this game it's going to be whoever is able to completely build out their entire zoo first wins and so the way that a turn works is the first thing that happens is you're going to move this elephant up to four spaces and depending on the space that the elephant lands on is the action that you get to take the two different possible spaces are spots that have these enclosure tiles on them that's considered a space or these blue circles that have animals on them and so if it were my turn the elephant starts here i could go one two three four if i wanted to because this is also a space these like uh salmon kind of colored spots are not actually spaces they're more like checkpoints so any time the elephant uh passes over one of these then there's going to be a breeding phase that happens at the end of the turn but we will get to that later when you land on a spot that has enclosure tiles you must take the top most enclosure tile so you cannot land on that spot and not take one you must always take one and it always has to be the top most and the reason why you need to take the top most is because these are the ones that have more squares than the ones below them so this has six and this has five squares on them yeah the game is set up in kind of descending order there's more uh spaces on the top and then as we uncover there's less spaces on the bottom right and so whenever you take an enclosure tile you must add it to your board immediately and you can literally place it anywhere there's no there's no rules about things being orthogonally adjacent or anything it's just that tiles it's pretty much the standard standard tile placing rules they cannot overlap they must all fit within the confines of your board and overhanging exactly and you're trying to complete the entire board so when you place an enclosure tile inside your zoo then you must add up to two animals into that enclosure tile of the same species of the same species yes you cannot intermingle different species in one enclosure they must all be of the same species so the animal that you take can be either from one of the three houses in the barn house area the top left here so if i wanted to i could make this into a meerkat enclosure and place this meerkat in there and so each enclosure has a number of spaces available for animals depending on the number of squares it has because it's one animal per square just like that if i had other enclosures that were that are filled with animals in my zoo i could also take them from the different enclosures but i must add at least one to this enclosure right and so had my board looked like this when i added this tile to my zoo then instead of taking that meerkat from this house i could take the meerkat from this enclosure but the one rule that i must abide by is when doing so i have to leave at least one behind you can never fully abandon an enclosure right the other rule that's sort of like a bonus in this game is if at any time you add exactly one animal to an enclosure you can in addition add another animal of the same type from your barn house so because i added just one mirror cap to this enclosure when i placed it i can now take this meerkat from my barn house and add it there so it's a nice way of comboing these moves yes and so that is how the enclosure spaces work if ever you land on a space that just shows two animals then you get to take both animals one at a time in whatever order you want you don't even have to take both of them if you want to but it is probably in your best interest to do so and so this this example is i get a penguin and a tree kangaroo free kangaroo yeah which i would take from the supply and right now i can't actually fit either of them in my enclosures because these are both meerkat enclosures so they would both go into my barn area to be placed out later in the game if during the elephant movement it crossed one of these breeding zones which are those salmon colored ones that i was discussing then after that player finishes their main action we're going to have a breeding phase for that animal type yes so this is a bad example because it's specifically breeding for the arctic foxes and neither of us have arctic foxes but if on my turn i went one two three four took that enclosure tile at the end of my turn we would both have a breathing phase for the meerkats and so all of these reading phases affects everybody everybody anybody who has meerkat enclosures can do this the way that it works is standard uv rosenberg style if you have any enclosure that has at least two of that animal type in it it will get one right which also means you have if you have four meerkat in one enclosure you still only get one exactly that's not it's not for every two exactly it's just when you have two or more you only breed one in the same enclosure in the same enclosure and you can do this for up to two enclosures max and so see my board look like this and now i finished my turn we're going to have a meerkat breeding phase so i can breed up to two of my enclosures that have at least two meerkats in them which are these two and so each of them would get one meerkat each from the supply just like this and because i added exactly one meerkat to both of these enclosures i can actually add this one meerkat from my my barn area to either one so it would be in my best interest to add it to this one because it now it fully completes the enclosure right what happens after you complete an enclosure is you clear off all of the meerkats from that enclosure you get getting to keep one of them if you have space in your barn area you get to actually keep one to leave behind and then this stays here it is now an empty enclosure for you to add animals to later if you'd like but then you get to choose one of these attractions to add to your board there are two of them that are bigger than the others or actually there are four of them that are bigger than the others so if i'm the first person to do this it'll probably be in my best interest to take the biggest one because it covers the most amount of space but in the future these attractions help you cover those like one square spots yes that you really need to fill in because they're going to become very important yes because every single square here needs to be filled in for you to win and so that is how you get these attraction kind of like easy fitting in spots the last thing is in a two or three player game when you do breeding there's also bonus breeding so this does not happen in a four or five player game this is very specific to ours but uh what happens is if you were able to breed at least one enclosure during that breeding phase then after we're done doing that initial breeding you can choose exactly one other enclosure to breed it doesn't matter what the animal is it doesn't have to be another meerkat closure there's a lot of of comboing of things and you're basically these all these animals are means to an end we're just trying to kind of hop and get all these enclosures into our zoo as quickly as possible exactly yeah but that is the entire game if you notice there's this question mark chip and this is just for oh i need to try this out and make sure it fits so i'm going to leave that there right so i know where it came from right but other than that everything else uh has been covered and so the end of the game occurs when somebody completely fills their board ends immediately and they win yep that's it so we are gonna go ahead and clean up get started and then we'll go from there okay so we are all set up we are ready to play monique has her giraffe sweater on oh yeah i have my zebra shirt on because i love drastic both of which are not in this game but we thought we'd wrap them up zebras are naveen's favorite they're in zebras are pretty beautiful they're kind of like they are beautiful they're like striped horses they that's exactly wild strike horses okay so back to the game itself though we have set up for the speedy quicker two player version of the game it just kind of moves the game along instead of us just slowly going around the board and picking up tiles it literally just makes the game shorter it makes it shorter missing out on any gameplay outside of that exactly yeah yeah so the way that it works is we each get three of the darker green tiles which have more squares on them and three of the lighter green and we just get to set them out anywhere on our board as we choose yeah it might be hard to see in this game the darker the tile the more squares on the tile the lighter the tile the le the least there are so if you look at these two it's a very subtle difference it's very subtle so uh between because there's i think there's like four or five grades of color so yeah um outside of that we each also have very specific boards for the two player game at the bottom left-hand corner there are two like people symbols here which it's for two player two players only and in the bottom right hand corner it actually tells you what order you're gonna go in so naveen has player one and i have player two and at the top right hand and left-hand corners it tells you the two animals that you start with in your barn area so i start with a meerkat and a tree kangaroo and you start with i started with a meerkat and a flamingo there you go so now starting with naveen you get to move the elephants that's no rock scissors no all right no scissors no rocks no paper just elephant elephant well i think i'm going to do a slow and steady and just go right over here oh okay i'm going to take this guy right over here so you're taking an enclosure identifying this spot here putting it on your board and now you must add at least one animal to it at least one animal to it i think i'm gonna go ahead and add my meerkat because when i look at who's gonna breed first it's meerkats before flamingos so i'm gonna take a chance okay and i'm gonna put this one right over here so unfortunately most of the time in games we like to lay down the meeples we cannot do that in this game because every square matters so they're just gonna be these tailors right yeah standing the way they should and if you are having trouble seeing there are i think five different animals let's see one two three four five yes there are flamingos uh tree kangaroo meerkat penguins and the arctic fox all of them with their own individual meeple right so it's my turn i'm gonna go i'm gonna go this way one two three four wow so landing on this space gets me these two animals it's another tree kangaroo and a meerkat so what i'm gonna do is i'm going to take both one at a time i'm going to add my meerkat to an enclosure let's go with this one and because i added exactly one meerkat to that enclosure i can add a second as long as it's in my barn area which it was and so now that has two meerkats and i'm not actually sure what the plural of meerkats is it meerkat oh my god and now i'm gonna get my tree kangaroo and oh i should probably add this to an enclosure as well okay let's do that i'm gonna add it to there and now i have two there you go amazing uh that's me nobody we do we're supposed to have arctic fox breeding but neither of us have arctic foxes so now it moves on to you yep so i'm gonna do something very similar to what you just did so i'm gonna go one two so this allows me to grab a meerkat and a flamingo there you go so the meerkat i'm just gonna put it right here because i know it's gonna breed very shortly so i need to get that in there i cannot put a new meerkat because i don't have one this new one right here this flamingo i'm going to put it into let's just put it over here so we don't get things mixed up because i added exactly one flamingo i get to now put this flamingo right over here so they're all hanging out looking at the meerkats very good [Laughter] they're looking at the rears of these meerkats all right what are we gonna do here you know let's get more animals nice because the reason why is because if i take an enclosure i'm gonna have to split up some of these animals correct well yeah no i'm gonna i'm not gonna split them up right now because we're gonna have some breeding so i'm gonna go one two three and i'm gonna get another kangaroo and a flamingo this time um i feel like i'm gonna just put them yeah just to see what happens kind of see what happens yeah okay and now that i've finished taking my action we are going to have a breeding for the meerkat so i'll go first since it's my turn yes let's do that um i have one meerkat enclosure here so i'm going to be able to breed once so i go ahead and place one from the supply into that must go in the same enclosure yep and because i was able to breed once then i get the bonus breeding of literally any other enclosure that i want to breed with and so i might as well right yep that's eligible so i might as well breathe with my kangaroo let's see what you've done i take one from the supply and because i added exactly one kangaroo from the supply to that enclosure i now get to add my other one so i guess it technically made no difference it didn't make a difference for the kangaroos the uh but it was good for the flamingos were it's good to see fine okay that's good so now to you okay so i have uh exactly these two meerkats here so i get one cut matter over there meerkat and then uh because i added exactly one i could technically if i had a meerkat but i don't so bonus breeding bonus breeding so i'm gonna take one of this and this again this bonus breeding is only in a two-player or three-player game two or three two or three two or three player game all right and so that's me that was you huh you know i'd like to not split up my my guys so i'm just gonna go right over here one two let's go ahead and get a arctic fox and another meerkat so i think i'm gonna you know i think i'm gonna stick this meerkat into this spot right over here and i'll place my arctic fox oh wow is that good or bad you're almost done with your meerkat i am enclosure excuse me there we go one certain one there yeah and the arctic fox is looking this way now okay he's just watching over everyone i really should be getting more enclosures because that's literally the name of the game yeah but these breeding spots are kind of scaring me so yeah i'm gonna go one two three yeah which is gonna get me a flamingo and a penguin and i wanted to do that because breeding happens at the end of my action so it'll give me an opportunity to uh do stuff with the flamingos let's put the penguin there and i'm going to start a flamingo enclosure right there because i added exactly one i'm going to add my other flamingo in here just in time for breeding just in time in the nick of time and then we're going to have flamingo breeding okay go for it i have my flamingos my cute flamingos here so i get to breed one and then now i can do my bonus reading because i was able to participate in that breeding session and i get to decide what is going to breed let's breed some kangaroos there we go nice you you have flamingos i do yep one and my only bonus breeding is the meerkats so let's go into it there you go all right so i am only one space away from the meerkats and two spaces away from the flamingos yep and monique you are one space away for from the kangaroos the other ones are a little bit further off solid okay so it's my turn yep your turn i don't want to split these guys up right now because they're so close to getting these attractions and these attractions are very nice to take up a lot of space so these ones think of a lot of space exactly but i would like to take one of those two hopefully i can get it i think you're going to get it though okay so let's yeah i'm going to go one two and let's go ahead and get more animals so i got an arctic fox and a kangaroo arctic box song kangaroo song all right that's a throwback yeah so arctic fox arctic fox is gonna go there and then so the sad thing is because i'm adding exactly one to each of these had i had an arctic fox and a kangaroo tree kangaroo then i would have been able to add another one but i don't alas so we're gonna put this guy up in the top right corner all right um i'm going to you know it is enclosure time but which enclosure is the question i'm gonna go one two take this one okay because it's only one two three four five versus six spots although you do want to have you do want something that occupies more space hold on also you want it to see how it fits you know just right all right i'm gonna go one two take this enclosure because i do need to work on these i'm going to add it oh it's right there nice you like that i do like that and i'm going to start a uh what i want to see that penguin a penguin enclosure right in there nice and now we're going to breed some kangaroos so i have my one kangaroo enclosure which i'm going to add one kangaroo to absolutely and it's going to complete this enclosure so then i will now resolve it before i do my bonus reading so i remove all of these kangaroos from them and it goes into the supply and this gets the hangout i get to leave one behind in my barn area and then now i get to take one of these attractions so i'm clearly going to take this one because it occupies the most amount of space nice yeah but now the question is monique how do you look at this you can also just toss it in the upper right corner maybe you're right or maybe that's good you know what let's see yeah what happened we could build towards we do that yeah look i got a roller coaster in my zoo that almost literally pigeonholes you if you put it in the bottom right yeah it leaves a hole do you oh you don't read for kangaroos right way to rub it in sorry yes so then it goes back to me for my bonus breeding and i can either bonus read my flamingos or my meerkat so what is where are flamingos so flamingo's just bread okay their cats were the one right before it so technically meerkats are coming sooner we're doing meerkat well i don't know why i point these things out because you're a nice person i'm a nice person that's me back to you well i think this is a good move i'm going to go ahead and just come on over here and i'm going to take a meerkat and a penguin i'm just collecting animals i don't know what i'm doing there you go for ease i'm gonna put the penguin down first okay create a new enclosure and now this meerkat is gonna go right in here nice and complete this entire enclosure of meerkats so just like monique did on the last turn one meerkat will stay and these five guys will go back and when i say stay it's gonna stay over here okay um and now that's a completed enclosure and so now i get to take one of these so this next best one yeah is gonna be this one very good and i think i'll just tuck it right over here it's also a roller coaster a roller coaster in the bottom left corner and now that we've completed these enclosures it doesn't mean that we can't add um animals to them we can still add animals to them it's just they are now completed and they got us a bonus ah so technically i should have completed this and then place the penguin onto here you because it's one smaller let's just say i did that yeah because the rules say you take each animal one after the other and you immediately check for empty right empty enclosures when that happens because this enclosure requires seven spaces versus this one six it's just one less penguin that i have to deal with are you being strategic uh well strategy here [Laughter] very good all right so that's that's your turn that's my turn yeah so back to me what is going to breed next penguins okay so it is in my best interest to get a cute penguin out here so let's go one two okay so it's gonna get me an arctic fox and a penguin so let's take both of those penguin and arctic fox i'm gonna add my penguin here to that enclosure and then i don't like all these enclosures being so large so i'm going to let my arctic fox hang out in a house in my barn solid back to you back to me huh all right i need more more stuff on my board here this is getting a little nerve-wracking nerve-racking slightly the the animal is making you nervous they're making me nervous all right i'll go uh we'll go one wait this is not a spot right i'll go one two right here and i'll take this little t right here ah now we're going to have penguin breeding afterwards yeah so i'm going to put this one right into this little spot there wow that you tetris that good job and i must include an animal i'm not going to split these guys up so i'm going to put the meerkat back right on there and it's a little fiber so it's a smaller one cool yeah and then so now we are going to have penguin breeding i unfortunately do not even though i triggered it so i'm going to breed my penguin enclosure right here and then because i bred once i can do a bonus breeding session so i'm going to breed my meerkats right in there nice and that's that cool all right so back to me we are kind of moving along here you know arctic fox breeding is coming up i know i'm not getting any enclosures here and this is probably going to be to my demise but i'm kind of doing the same thing i'm seeing this arctic fox breeding coming up and i have one arctic fox i think it'd be nice to be able to breathe them yeah so i'm going to take these two animals it's an arctic fox and a flamingo it's perfect for you thank you though and i'm going to add well the flaming flamingo is just going to go into the flamingo enclosure but the arctic fox we're going to set up a new enclosure and i'm probably going to do this one because this is the lightest green on the other options the six square versus the other two are seven squares the other three yeah or three so i'm gonna add this arctic fox to this enclosure right here and because i added exactly one i get to take one from my barn area and add it there as well yeah it was a good one and that's that now i'm all set up to for everybody to breed except for my tree kangaroos okay so i have a bunch of individual peng i have an individual penguin individual tree kangaroo and i'm seeing penguin in tree kangaroo right over here so i'm gonna go one two so they can both have a mate they're lonely they're lonely you're gonna give them a friend i need them to passively breed so that they can play board games as well you can play board games that's right okay so one two that's right cute all right so back to me i need to get them closer get them reading yeah well they're gonna breed no matter what so i just need to get an enclosure going i'm having trouble seeing like the actual like physics of this you don't have like a beautiful mind where it's not yeah i know coming my brain doesn't see abstractly so i'm just gonna take this one and make it work that's basically what's gonna happen that looks good uh maybe we could do like yeah that's solid but then it leaves me that one square you're always going to have one square in this game it seems but i don't want it to have the one square yet not now that's the spot right there thank you so i'm going to add that and i'm going to make it into a kangaroo enclosure i think yeah why not these are all getting close to filling up so it would be kind of a shame well or what is going to breed very next thing to breed is going to be the meerkats yeah i definitely don't want to touch the mu no it's the foxes oh foxes yes yes foxes and then the then the meerkat meerkat then the flamingo does this mean we're pulling out the question mark is it question mark time for you we're in question mark zone here yeah we're in question we are in question mark zone yeah i'm gonna leave it like this i'm gonna make it into a satisfied yeah into one of these final answer one of these guys okay very good my turn yeah it's your turn sorry i'm not lost i thought it's getting a little bit thinkier at the moment because i want my animals to do most of the work i want you know but i also don't want to split them up because they're just so close right there's definitely a balance between thinking about trying to just complete enclosures yeah and like trying to just spread out your animals yeah it's almost like completing enclosures is a distraction so it's interesting to try to think about that balance yeah go ahead i mean interrupt return then you digress i digress one two on to the spot here so another kangaroo tree kangaroo and a meerkat very good so unfortunately i'm adding exactly one but i have nothing and i'm also adding exactly one that is okay i have nothing that's probably what what happens the majority of the time but now we have arctic fox breedings so here's yours and what would you like for your additional bonus breeding so meerkats are going to be breeding soon but so are flamingos so i might just do a flamingo bonus breed okay there you go um all right so my arctic foxes breed and then i can choose a an additional bonus breeding i think i'm gonna do the meerkat really yeah it's going to breed any second it will but i will be able to keep one behind so i can still start an additional enclosure with them so that is okay all right so i'm going to do my additional meerkat breeding right there and that'll complete this enclosure nice so i remove all of these but except for one one gets to hang out in the barn area and then now i get to take one of these and take either one of these two let's take this one that's a nice one it'll fit in right nicely right there and that is it cool so now now it's your turn it's my turn and we just talked about the fact that we're gonna have a meerkat breeding so i might as well take the meerkat and the flamingo and i'm going to start well i'm going to put the flamingo right there and i'm going to start a new meerkat enclosure and go right here adding this one from my from my barn area all right your turn okay i think it's time to start getting uh more enclosures yeah i think i'm gonna go here we're really delaying just gonna go here and take this one and i think i think this one can fit right in here and what i'll do is i'm gonna pull one kangaroo from here and bring it over here so now i'm gonna try to get multiple kangaroos going nice all right i'm gonna go here and take this enclosure yes i'm taking this one i'm going to put it right here and i'm going to let's see penguins don't breed for a while so then i'm just going to add one penguin right there okay uh penguins don't breed for a while yeah they'll breathe they'll breed all the way over there so at least i've got another penguin enclosure going so you triggered the oh yes i triggered the the meerkat breeding so my meerkat are going to breed my meerkats give me that and now i'm going to have a bonus breeding so i'm going to breed my flamingos so we'll do that one gets to hang back these all go away and then now i'm going to take the second so get them all four four four tyler so there we go it is a carousel uh do you breed i do these two guys there you go okay what is your bonus uh you know i'm not gonna do the flamingo because that's gonna come up soon so i'm actually gonna do what's the next thing i would like this kangaroo over here oh no i'm sure that can't go over there because there's only one oh yeah you can do a kangaroo i can do a penguin or a kangaroo uh let's do okay let's do the kangaroo there all right there you go and that is that was my turn right okay so it's back to you so now if i go here i could interesting yeah that's why i was surprised that you didn't just breed your flamingo you can have one hang back go to that spot to take another flamingo that we'll breed later all right i'm just gonna move along just one spot right over here okay and i'm gonna take a flamingo and you can't kangaroo any kangaroo yeah there you go and so flamenco the kangaroo i'm gonna put over here because this one needs a friend uh this flamingo i think i might hold back over here because it's gonna breed over here no matter what so it'll passively breed i'll keep another one here and then eventually i can just put them all out onto one spot yeah i think right that that makes sense that is true okay so i'll do that um that's my turn okay i am going to i'm gonna go over here and take this enclosure well let's make sure that it fits actually oh it's one it's one of those the z yeah it's not bad all right let's do that because there's attractions that are the exact that's true that you need right there which will be coming down that's true down the road okay so i have to add a i'm going to make it into an arctic fox yep enclosure nice so that's it yep yep so i think i'm going to go one two on onto this one okay because this fits perfectly right there nice that's another fiber so i'm gonna be we're gonna just spread out some kangaroos we're gonna put this kangaroo over here this one just one you can do up to two yeah but you want it you want to keep these two oh you know what yes i will put two here yes good call because it's smaller here versus a bigger one there yeah yeah okay thank you you're welcome i need those that i can help yeah i need those tips all right i'm gonna go uh one two get a penguin and a flamingo so flamingo penguin i'm just gonna add my penguin right here so now we have two enclosures that have buddies and i'm gonna start a flamingo enclosure what is the smallest enclosure on my board i think it's this one so i'll do it here and in doing so i get to bring this one over because i exactly added one and now we're going to have flamingo breeding so i do my flamingo bleeding first so here's my one and then now i can choose a second enclosure to breed in your penguins your meerkats arctic fox so the next breeding is the tree kangaroos which you can't do right now but penguins are the ones after that i'm gonna breed one of my penguins yeah it makes sense let's do this one they're both the same same size same same number of spaces yeah so then you get to breed your flamingo yep my flamingos gonna come over here and you complete it i did i completed that one right there so that happens now now okay so then these all come off one stays back it's going to hang out in my little den shed whatever that is barn barn how dare you okay please don't choose one wow so many choices yeah so there's the long three tile there's the two tile the single squares and then the corners i think i'm gonna go long three and just uh we're just gonna have all our attractions like that all up like that so you have like an attraction zone like this is like the plaza you know no no no no no no no no no didn't like the plaza i like this idea right there we go because i like squared off areas i'm looking around on the board sometimes i love the non-square okay okay three is three right three straight or three curved you know we'll see what happens yeah let's see what happens okay so that was that i get a bonus breeding now yep okay so the next thing that is going to breed is going to be the kangaroos okay so i'll take a candle yeah oh drink kangaroo for you let's put that back yep and i'm going to go ahead and put that right over here there we go all right i'm gonna isolate that one right there your turn my turn huh you're gonna isolate this one yeah sorry okay i think i'm gonna go one two get another kangaroo and an arctic fox kangaroo arctic fox there you go so arctic fox is going to hang out here okay close and kangaroo is going to hang out here all right here we go we are getting close ish i feel like we're playing a little bit cautious cautious for sure because you we can definitely start you know making bigger spaces here okay so ah my kangaroos are not gonna breed oh you're gonna have two kangaroo breedings the foam and i'm gonna try to chain it okay okay i'm just going to go one space over and take this tile this is a nice big juicy six six square tiles so i'm gonna place that right there and then i'm going to you're breaking up the band yeah breaking up the penguin man i don't know why i took this one over that one but i'm going to start a third penguin enclosure and they're going to be next door to each other so there really is no reason to have two of them i guess but actually i'm not going to make this into a third penguin enclosure i feel like there really is no reason to have more than two because when you breed you can only read up to two yeah so i'm going to make this into a meerkat enclosure it's been a while since we've we've had more meerkats out of the board so we'll spread yep all right i'm just going to move over one spot take this one i like that tile it's a nice one i debated it uh i'm gonna take it and place it here okay okay and then now because i put a new one down i'm going to take one flamingo place it on and i can place both actually right yeah you can just place both that's up to two yeah so i'll put those two right there okay and now we have a kangaroo breeding kangaroo so you are the only one who can do that yeah so i'll breed this uh so i get two of them so now i get these two kangaroos breeding and these two separate grounds here so this one is gonna go there and complete that one and simultaneously this one over here is gonna be right over there right so when animal reading happens uh these the both enclosures if you're able to breed two they happen simultaneously so you would have to place both down and then check if either one was completed right you couldn't complete one hang one back and then place the second reading to now bring the one that you hung back if that makes sense there's there's at the same time you can do a lot of chaining in this game but that is not one way to chain okay that's right so these four are gonna come off okay actually five all five are gonna come off this one's going to go out here because it's done these guys go out and now you get to choose to choose i'll just take a straight bar i think okay this is where now it's like uh what can i do with the straight bar um sure i'll just put it right over oh gosh this is the worst i'll put it right here okay perfect all right so back to me and i think i'm gonna go one two three and take an arctic fox and a penguin they're just so tempting to get these animals gosh and i'm gonna place the this penguin here and the arctic box here with its buddy all right back to you yeah back to me huh and going back to my last turn when we did the uh breeding here uh i need to do my bonus breeding did you do bonus breeding for yourself i didn't breed kangaroos oh you didn't breathe yeah that's not elegant that's why we forgot so um i will bonus breed the arctic fox okay there you go awesome all right so now where are you going to move the elephant where to go we're getting things are getting tight all right there's like uh alleyways left to fill in here so now we're really gonna try to tetris i guess okay so i'm gonna go one two three four i'm gonna take this spot right over here okay okay and then now these shapes are not looking too smooth here anymore um sure like that i just need to fill up something yeah oh gosh i know i know so what are you gonna put in that enclosure you know i think i'm gonna split this uh i don't wanna split the kangaroos up and definitely these are breeding right now so i'm not doing that so can i do this i can take two like that like that yeah you can okay i'm gonna go ahead and do that perfect another kangaroo enclosure for you yep wonderful all right so you crossed the penguin breeding zone right so you get to breathe your penguin one there you go okay and then don't forget your bonus reading this time yes bonus reading so if i breed an arctic fox here as my bonus it'll then put one back here arctic foxes are going to breed again so maybe i don't want to do that one right so i'll bonus breed uh the meerkats right over here okay there you go yep so i have uh two penguin enclosures that can breed so let's breed them both one of them is going to be completed this one's fully enclosed so i'm going to remove all these one hangs back and now i get to take one of these tiles i think this one for that spot right there that you said that was perfect i pointed it out you did um and now i get to choose a bonus breeding animal so let's bonus breed these flamingos yep make sense just like that all right that's it so now back to me oh gosh and this is five this is one two three that's fine that's i can't even fit that i don't it would have to go like that it would just like totally ugh let me just see this real quick that fit right there yeah it's kind of questioning awkward we're questioning here yeah we're questioning it's so awkward it's pretty awkward we'll do it so one two three okay so you take that okay no longer questioning so i took this so i'm going to i'm gonna make it into a flamingo enclosure okay so this is it right this one okay right there oh and they all have like a little uh pond a lake or like a watering hole that's nice i think all the tiles do yeah that's important all right so back to you well we have arctic fox breeding oh yes that's right arctic fox reading i'm going to breed in two different enclosures okay because we have the arctic boxes here you do arctic fox and here and then i'm going to do my bonus breeding i think technically you can do your reading also right i have this one which is going to completely yeah you do the bonus breeding after everybody does their regular breeding so so this one's gonna slip in here but instead of me knocking everything over i'm gonna say it slips in there it fulfills and then all of these come off up to now we've been doing all of our breeding separately but because now it kind of matters when you complete enclosures right yeah whoever gets those we're going to do them in order exactly so it's regular reading first look for completed enclosures and then you do your bonus reading right so which would you like i mean i'm definitely going to need this at some point there's a lot of them out there and there's only one this curve thing and i see a bunch of curves on yours so oh i'm trying to survive here your survival i'm putting this one right there yes i don't hate you but um and then did you do your bonus points i have not okay so you do it now for my bonus breeding i'm gonna go uh and do the penguins so i'm gonna add one here and because i bred with the penguins i get to add my last one over here as well solid and it completes this enclosure so let's do that keep one back and now i'm going to add one of these long straight bar yeah straight bars uh well you need that twice that's not bad there's one last one in the game i know but then what am i going to fill this with is the question i'm going to put this here probably not the smartest thing to do sure but we're going to do it okay because there are a lot of those one squares yeah so so i still have space to house this and i'm going to do it one two okay i should probably did you you did your bonus breeding right i did okay i should probably do my bonus breeding before i forget you were like that crust yeah i know uh so bonus breeding what's going to breed next these are going to breed next so i probably don't want to do that one um let's do the flamingo all right here you go flamingos getting close to be done so now we're going to go to the cross so we're gonna go one two i'll take this cross yep yep very good and so now this guy can just get filled in right there right there what kind of enclosure is it gonna be uh arctic fox perhaps i don't know yeah because this is close to breeding this is close to finishing up that's almost done penguins are close i don't want to split anybody up kind of like cooking and like having all these things that are ready to come out gosh i'll put them right there dead center right at the cross okay perfect all right i'm gonna go boom boom i'm gonna take this perfect piece pretty perfect right here oh i should have stole that one taking that kind of slide in right there that was so foolish of me i should have seen um what kind of enclosure are we gonna make it we're going to make it into well let's make it into an arctic fox enclosure okay so we have a few reading options here i'm surprised you didn't do a flamingo from these two into there because flamingo's the next thing breeding but then i already have two flamingo enclosures that are so long they're gonna take so long to complete this requires one two three four if you took two two there just requires two to complete it yeah but that's just my thought but i'm also losing in this game the game is ending shortly it seems so i don't know if i want to make it into an arctic fox either either yeah yeah all right you've sold me we're going to make it into a flamingo enclosure this is a co-op yeah because there really is no reason we have to take it from two separate flamingo enclosures because you have to leave one behind yeah because i figured when it's going to breed it's going to take so long it goes one yeah three empty spaces so how long and right now at this point you're basically playing for these yep right okay so i'm just gonna go one space here okay i'll take this one and i'm going to slip it in right over here so knowing that the meerkats are breeding i'm not going to split up the meerkats but i will take these guys over here and drop them in over there all right now we have meerkat breeding so you're going to breed your meerkat yeah so the meerkat is going to go here that completes an enclosure yep so this one will come out over here these four will come off and now which piece would you like oh boy i gotta take this thing from you okay so i'll take that i think this one is good okay i'm pretty sure it is i mean i i got a lot of holes to fill here so okay go for it i'm going for it yeah sorry knocked over my flamingo keep stand up flamingo there you are okay don't shout at that flamingo i know you're right okay and then now um bonus breeding okay so that's me your cat so i'm gonna take my meerkat as well and breed right there okay and then what do you do for your bonus yeah bonus i'm gonna do uh i'm not gonna do the flamingo because it's gonna breed again okay i guess i'll do the kangaroo right over here let's do it pre-kangaroo there you go specifically tree kangaroo and now that these spots are completely emptied of enclosure tiles they are no longer spaces we just hop over them as if they don't exist i'm very limited as to what i can take now i'm gonna go one two yep take that square make sense i'm gonna plop it right smack dab it in the middle right there yeah and then we are going to make a we're gonna make an arctic box enclosure i'm gonna slip two of these in here sure two all right now back to you back to me huh we're getting close so none of these shapes are gonna work because it's a whole bunch of gaps so i can go one two three four huh okay so i'll do that i'll go one two three four so i get a penguin and a flamingo there you go so now i'm gonna put the penguin down now if i put the flamingo here then we have flamingo breeding right so if i put it here i'll put it here okay okay so then now we're gonna have flamingo breeding so here's your flamingo thank you so flamingo's gonna go there uh and then that completes that yep okay so i'm gonna put one flamingo back here all three of these come off you get one of those and i get one of these i just need a two piece sure put that one right over there i'm gonna have some mango breeding as well okay so i'm just gonna put one here are you gonna do your bonus reading now oh yeah definitely um so i will bonus breed a penguin let's do it yeah there you go we're getting close you're getting close there too yeah um i'm in a bonus breed so i already did my flamingo so i'm gonna bonus breed a an arctic fox let's do that all right so back to me yep we're definitely gonna go whoops one two so arctic fox and tree kangaroo because kangaroos are next so let's see the tree kangaroo right there and we're going to complete this nice this enclosure with the arctic fox and put that there and i'm going to get a one piece i'm getting close oh yeah yeah gotta get it you're just gonna run out the clock on me here gonna breed i gotta breed you do what are you doing now well i think i'm gonna do uh a little meerkat action here so if i go one two three so i'll do that i'll go one two three uh and penguin penguin yep there you go meerkat and penguin okay so i will put penguin here that's going to complete that one and then um so i do well actually let me do it in this order here i'm gonna put this meerkat here okay and because i put that there this it's one only by itself yeah so i'm gonna put it here and this is okay and this one's gonna go over here okay so because that's a bonus i put one single one down okay then now i'm gonna put this uh penguin there okay oh sorry not there it's right over here okay this is complete that completes that enclosure right over there okay so let me go ahead and do that all of these come off yep penguin goes here what do you take um a two a piece yeah i don't know this is this is gonna take a long time here yeah the very end is like a slow crawl for those smaller pieces and then uh we do have breeding but go ahead and uh did are you gonna oh now now it's time to breed i'll go breed first and then i'll breed after so so i'm breeding this one here there you go which again completes this enclosure uh-oh so these are all out now i have i have all this here so you lose them i lose them all yeah you lose all your kangaroos if you don't have any space in your barn that's okay for me because i did complete an enclosure i will take another trial here he's getting getting faster all right i'll try i'm going to breed my kangaroo what bonus breeding are you gonna do oh meerkat bonus braid for sure meerkat bonus breed i'm gonna do a bonus breed of flamingos which completes this enclosure so i'm gonna place one there let's see let's go out and i take a one oh my gosh so all you need is one more left i need one more square i don't know the panic the anxiety and the panic okay are you done yeah all right this is probably game this is game night guys we're gonna go one two we're getting a penguin in an arctic box so penguin arctic fox might as well start a penguin enclosure right let's put that there so that this penguin could have oh i see what you're doing then i'm going to place my arctic fox in this enclosure which now gets this arctic box to come in completing that enclosure so i mean that's all this at this point is useless and i can take my last single square what is it even this is a drinks a drinks uh stuff beverage stand yeah there's a popcorn one right here also yeah i think i have a popcorn one there and that's an average stand but that's it my zoo wow he's done so you beat me by four squares that's that's nice but well yeah and i was so close with this one to put out another two right here on the next turn yeah you would have needed to just complete three more enclosures yeah to do that i think i spent a little too much time getting animals earlier we both did it's funny because when we played this before we were like okay so that's how you're supposed to do this you're not supposed to focus too much on getting the animals earlier on you want to just get animals as a means to an end to get more of these enclosures by the end of the game you want to be breeding so that you can start getting those you know access to those little tiny tiny tiny ones yeah it's an interesting balance interesting balance yeah it's like this because then when you complete you want to race to complete enclosures early right because you get the big ones yeah so you don't want to just let somebody else get that right so once the big ones are gone then you want to just flip over to just i need to get more enclosures yeah yeah and i don't think i switched gears fast enough i think we both slowed down but i i fell back a little bit more yeah so anyway yeah that's what you can do good job yeah nice so let's talk about it a little bit sure this is um another ube rosenberg thailand game that is uh very much so in the light lighter category definitely lighter games but with some crunchier decision making this is uh i wouldn't necessarily call it crunchy but it's definitely thinkier than some of his other titling yes in terms of like weight scale like in terms of mental weight scale this is easily like a family game you can't play with anybody but as a gamer very much so still enjoy it yes because the pressure's on still it's light but you definitely still have those moments of oh okay what do i do there's an interesting decision here that i have to figure out and the kind of the slight engine building or chain of events that that level of thinking yeah okay so if i put this fox here then that'll kick this one off into the little into the cupboard or whatever that's yeah the barn and then i can get it back real quick right it's a smaller one so there's a lot of thinking there yeah let's talk about a little bit more from the from all the different categories so starting with theme this is about building out a new york zoo obviously if you haven't gathered that already um when i first saw this i thought oh that is an interesting this color palette decision right it's all a little bit green green it's a little bit like dull dulled out like all the colors are kind of dulled out but then when i you start thinking about the theme and of like the vintage zoo look i guess or the vintage new york look it really does definitely fit into that that thematic look yeah i am a little concerned though about um people who have different difficulties seeing greens shades of green i'm we're not sure how that would kind of go in terms of difficulty seeing color but luckily it's not a huge color is not really a big factor in this game i would imagine that that's coming from a very like uh our perspective you know yeah but the good thing about it is there is that question mark tile so if it's like if if you're having difficulty seeing it you can still lay the question mark tile down pick it up and take a look and try to mess around with it and then put it back if you have to sure i mean honestly the color yes the color the tiles are darker in terms of the tiles that have more squares on them but i'm not looking at them and thinking like oh that one is slightly lighter than the other one you're looking at the shadows i'm looking at the shape shape and i'm going to count the squares myself right so color is not a really big deal sure but it will say that the theme of it being a zoo is is nice because i love animal meeples yeah and this game introduced a few animal meeples that i've never seen before like we have meerkat we have meerkat meeples the first time i saw these guys i thought that that was the most that was the most hilarious thing in a board game all year and i do like the variety of animals that they chose for the game yeah i think five animals is just the right amount yeah i thought it'd be i'm still waiting for a giraffe meeple like a true draft people to be used in a game but these ones will do maybe the expansion yeah in terms of player count um we this is another one that we've only been able to play it too but i do like that it has the faster variant yes i don't think i would play it without i mean unless i really wanted to sit here for like a much longer game of it which i would probably do i feel like you get the full experience at the sped up version of the quicker version the 30 minute version because the the very beginning without having those starting tiles you're just going to go try to acquire them slow crawl yeah you just like and i feel like because it's a race this this game is technically a race you want to keep up that momentum so you don't want it to be this like long drawn out race right yeah so i do like that there is that that shorter variant for a two-player game quick and quick yeah i would probably i definitely prefer playing it at that um the i will say though in in terms of timing of this game i would recommend separating all your uh these these tiles by this shot the size of it because if you just have it all in one bag uh sorting them is a little bit of a pain because of the way you have to set up the board so that does add to some of the time of the game and in terms of mechanics uh i've only played like i played patchwork we played feast rodent and that's obviously a totally different weight but uh out of the trilogy of the the polyamino tiling games that he had designed in the past the indian summer cottage garden and there was a third one was summer no no it was fall no wait spring meadow spring it's a cottage garden indian summer spring meadow and i'm not sure what order those came out in but i've only tried one of them and i don't remember which one i think you tried spring meadow maybe it was that sn two years ago yeah it was whatever the most recent one came out yeah and i would say that this one is probably heavier than that oh it is stinkier um spring metal is kind of you're doing very much similar things you're trying to build up your board but you're building it from the ground up and you're taking it from this like uh board and the way that the board works is is interesting also but this one is very like combo tastic like that is you're trying yeah you have animals as a currency and there are no points in this game right so you are trying to just build up your zoo as quickly as possible and the animals are a little bit of a distraction like we're trying we're kind of getting at that during the playthrough yeah because in the beginning it's like well i want to gather as many animals as i can to complete enclosures but all completing enclosures is going to do is get you these attraction tiles which if they're not like the first four of them they're not going to be that worth it until the end of the game right so it's like get the initial big attractions and then start getting enclosures just breed enough animals so that you can have enough animals to put into enclosures yeah it's interesting now that we've played it more and especially with this play through it it made me realize because of the way the board is stacked with the higher one the higher um valued enclosures on top of the smaller ones as you clear off those big ones then you'll have the smaller ones out there for when you eventually put the animals on right and then let them breed so don't worry about it so much early on so that was that was more interesting now because now we've played it several times that i'm seeing that pattern more like oh okay that's probably more efficient right the game that we just played of it was probably a little bit more drawn out than it needed to be because we were both like oh let's get animals and read them all yeah we were trying to we're trying to see if that balanced more because the first time we played i think we played almost too many enclosures and nothing was breeding so nothing was breeding yeah so because you'd have to split apart your little twosome right and then you're like well now i gotta start all over exactly so you're definitely trying to manage your animals trying to figure out the timing as to when you want them to breed versus and you can see when each animal is going to breed on the board so you're trying to foresee like i want to have two of this type of animal so that it at least breeds you know when it comes around but it comes around so try to balance that efficiency engine of breeding while at the same time getting enclosures is what you want to do it's nice in the two two and three player game the bonus breeding kind of speeds it along the bottom speeding is good yeah um it's fun to try to find those combos i think that is where when you know when you're like putting closures down you're making combos you're breeding you feel like you're efficient that is where the fun comes in and you can see everybody's bored you can see how quickly everybody's filling up and when it gets to the very end it becomes like a slower crawl because you're running out of spaces to put tiles so you are required to get those attraction tiles and so everybody's kind of breeding at the same time and it becomes intense yeah so that that's always that's fun it's it's an interesting design it is a good design yeah i really enjoyed it yeah another good one so yeah that is new york zoo it was interesting that it came from capstone games because typically they make or they've produced like larger heavier stuff but i like that a company like capstone did release a lighter game that is still very much i feel in line with that like thinky stinky kind of pinky strategy kind of game that they release anyway that's just me and how much i love capstone games yeah anyway that is new york zoo we hope you enjoyed the video thank you so much for watching and if you enjoy content like this and would like to see more please consider subscribing we will see you next time thanks bye [Music] you

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Length: 57min 30sec (3450 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 23 2020