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Joe‘s Zoo

Flamingo unter dem Zebra

In the zoo some animals are hiding in other animals‘ pens and this is something Joe, the animal warden, does not like at all; he wants to restore order to the zoo. Therefore you must entice flamingoes, zebras, crocodiles, anteaters and tigers out of their hideouts. If you manage this, you are rewarded with a snack for your animal. Ten double-sided animal cards show a different animal on front and back sides, each animal is depicted four times in total, always with one of the four other animals on the other side of the card. Those ten cards are laid out in a circle and each player takes a set of betting cards showing five animals and a colored backside. At the start Joe is placed on a randomly chosen animal card. The active player rolls the die and moves Joe forward accordingly in clockwise direction. Then all players place a bet on the animal that they believe is hiding on the underside of the card on which Joe is now standing, by laying down the corresponding animal card from their betting set. Then the animal is checked by turning over the card beneath Joe and each player who gave a correct bet is rewarded with a snack. The rules does not state if you leave the card underneath Joe showing the new animal or if you turn it back over again - you can choose one of those two version at the start of the game. Whoever collects six snacks first, wins.

Simple rules that are quickly explained - Joe’s Zoo provides a nice combination of dice rolling and memo, nothing very new, but good for in-between or travelling; after a few turns all players have memorized at least a few pairs and begin to collect snacks.

Players: 2-5

Age: 4+

Time: 15+

Designer: Wolfgang Dirscherl

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Piatnik 2014

Web: www.piatnik.com

Genre: memo

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: bg cz de en fr t hu pl sk

In-game text: no

Comments:

Simple rules

Nice variant of the memo mechanisms

Can be played two ways

Compares to:

All memo games

Other editions:

Currently none

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Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 3

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

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