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Habitats

ANimal park with watch towers and flowers

Each player builds his own wildlife park according to the demands of animals and visitors. You start with an entrance tile; three goal tiles – one per year – are on display and you place your animal marker on an open display of tiles as stated in the rules, this display is a market for all players. The remaining park tiles are stacked face-down.

In your turn, you take one of the tiles adjacent to your own marker in the market; then you move your marker to the position of the tile that you selected and put a new tile from stock openly on the position that was vacated by your animal marker. The tile that you took is then placed into your own park, orthogonally adjacent to a tile already in place; there are only two rules to observe: There cannot be a tile in the column below the curved side of the entrance tile, and edges of tiles featuring roads cannot border other tiles.

You play three years with different numbers of turns depending on the number of players and score the parks at the end of each year for majorities in relation to the goal tiles on display: Biggest area, most areas, longest orthogonally row of park tiles, landscape types, flower diversity, compact park, least distance to the entry and least distance of tiles to a road. After the scoring of the third year you score your own park individually for animals, flowers, watch towers, tourists and extra access roads.

Habitats is a pretty tile placement game, notable for its attractive design and enchanting animal markers; the open market display introduces tactics and the different goal tiles provided variety for the individual games.

Players: 2-5

Age: 10+

Time: 40+

Designer: Corné van Moorsel

Artist: Stephen Tu

Price: ca. 27 Euro

Publisher: Cwali 2016

Web: www.cwali.nl

Genre: Tile placement

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Beautiful ceramic figurines

Very realistic, beautiful graphics

Standard placement

Compares to:

All placement games for majorities and conditions

Other editions:

Currently none

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