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From an expedition you want to bring back at least one animal from each of the 6 continents and from each of the five animal groups – mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fish and birds. The animal cards show the symbol for the animal group, the name of the animal plus the information for size, weight, age and offspring on the one side and the continent on the other side. The cards are stacked sorted by continent. Each player draws a card from his start continent, you can choose where you begin, but everybody must begin on a different continent. One card from each continent is laid out to form the National Park. You roll the dice and use the action spots of ship, airplane and escalator track to travel faster. On Paw spots you can swap cards from your hand with cards from the National Park. On Q spots for Quiz and W spots for contest (=Wettbewerb) you can win animal cards. On Q spots you pick up three cards from the stack and must guess which of the three animals has the highest or lowest value. The category and whether the lowest or the highest value must be guessed, are determined by dice. On W spots you win a card if you have the best value in a category on your card, the card bid is marked and cannot be used in the next contest. The card you win you draw from the continent pile corresponding to the location of your marker. In case of a tie both players win a card.

This mixture of quiz and travelling game offers an attractive possibility to get familiar with the origins of lesser known animals; the game is also absolutely eligible for a family game.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 45+

Designer: Inka and Markus Brand

Artist: Mirko Suzuki, Kodiak

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Kosmos 2011

Web: www.kosmos.de

Genre: Assessment game

Users: For children

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Good mix of travel game and quiz game mechanisms * Very good family game, too * attractive design with fantastic pictures

Compares to:

Fauna and other assessment games featuring animals

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0