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Evolution The Origin of Species

plus Expansion Time to Fly

You breed your own species and must make do with different amounts of food. Each round comprises the phases Development, Food supply, Food and Extinction plus drawing cards. Each phase is resolved by each player. Or development you play cards, using them either as animal or as characteristics. Food is determined by dice roll. To feed you take one food marker per round. If animals are not sufficiently fed they become extinct, including all their characteristics, and are discarded. When all cards are gone, you score for surviving animals and for each of their characteristics, with bonuses for special characteristics.

In Time to Fly we go on breeding species and can now shuffle this first expansion into the core game and play with six players. The basic rules remain unchanged, but thanks to new characteristics the course of the game changes. New characteristics are, among others: Shell - stays in play even after extinction of the species and can be taken instead of food; intellect - can eat animal with only one protection; Angler fish - can be played only as an animal; special characteristics is used in the food phase; Trematodes - uses rules for Pairs as a parasite; or Flying, Ambush, Ink Cloud or others.

The use of the respective abilities of your species must be well-considered; carnivores are hard to defeat, but lack of food defeats every species! All in all a game with quite a lot of tactic, a little mitigated by the luck of dice for food. Another hint: Simple flying creatures are also hard to defeat. So the overall impression is that of an attractive game that very nicely implements the topic.

Players: 2-4/6

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Dmitry Knorre, Sergey Machin

Artist: Dmitry Knorre

Price: ca. 20 / 13 Euro

Publisher: Rightgames 2011, 2012

Web: www.russianboardgames.com

Genre: Card placement game

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr + cn kr ru

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Multi-language edition

Card texts in English with leaflet for translations

Good for families with some gaming experience

Compares to:

Bios Megafauna for the topic

Other editions:

In Russian

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0