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Aquarium

Breed and feed fish

Players create their own aquarium with colorful fish and are rewarded with stars. You start with one fish of the smallest size - there are three sizes - and can then in your turn pass and take money or shop at the market. You announce that you want to shop and then the other players can influence the cards in the market. First they choose one of their Phase I action cards and play if face-down, then cards are revealed in turn and implemented; these cards influence the number and kind of cards in the market. Then in turn action cards of Phase II are selected and implemented, these cards influence the price. When this is done you take the final decision to buy all cards or not to buy at all. When a feeding card is turned up the game is interrupted and you pay the necessary amount of money to feed your fish; fish you cannot feed are discarded. Each plant in your aquarium feeds a fish for free. A pair of identical fish can be put into the breeding tank; fish in the breeding tank need not be fed and earn you money at the start of each turn according to their size. After three or four feeding cards - depending on the number of players - the game ends and all surviving fish and plants earn you stars, color or size combinations of fish score bonus stars.

Aquarium is a harmonious and excellently working combination of a bit of luck, some tactics and a lot of interaction; the expensive helpers like “Fishybank” or “Plants” soon earn back the investment, because money for feeding your fish is the deciding element of the game if you want to build up and keep valuable combinations of fish!

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 45+

Designer: Tim de Rycke, Sander Vernyns

Art: Steven Kees

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Sandtimer 2011

Web: www.sandtimer.be

Genre: Set assembling game

Users: For children

Users: For families

Users: With friends

Users: For experts

Special: 1 player

Special: 1 or 2 players

Special: 2 players

Special: Many players

Special: 1 and also many players

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Two expansions available, one of them for a 5^th and 6^th player

Very pretty graphics

Very interactive, quickly played

Compares to:

Set assembling games where you acquire a display

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0