Zooloretto game review

 "Zooloretto" does not let go. Point. I don't stop liking this unimaginative game at all... On the shelf there are untried "Dracula" and "Shadows of Camelot", recently "Warcraft" came with an add-on, and I want to play "Zooloretto".

 If anyone doesn't know, Zooloretto is a game about a zoo. In it, players act as managers of their own zoo, buy animals, build stalls and new enclosures, in short, do everything to earn victory points. As one of my friends likes to repeat: "Everything is like in life."

 "Zooloretto" is not really an original game. The author (the well-known Comrade Shakht) reimagined his most successful brainchild - the game "Coloretto" - in a new way: threw the hell out of abstraction, added money to the game, replaced colored cards with tokens with animals, and voila! We had to come up with a new name... Before us is a game that looks great, with simple rules, high dynamism, low competitiveness. In short, a find for the family. "Professional" boardgamers perceived the game as recycled material, saying that "Coloretto" is pure gameplay, leavened on interesting mechanics, and "Zooloretto" is purely a money-making game. But! This game has one great feature - it is not abstract at all. For me personally, this is the main reason why I prefer to collect animals rather than pieces of colored cardboard. Any action in this game is closely related to the setting and is logical. Money brings a very light economic aspect to the game in addition to the tactical one, and add-ons provide a fan.

 Appendix one: Tokens of Podlanka. Finally you can make abominations! These are nine tokens of problems that play in the zoos of rivals and close places for animals in enclosures, prohibit the construction of stalls and break the roof of the reserve, forcing to spend on major repairs. I like to make abominations!

 Appendix Two: Mission Maps. Loudly shouted, of course, about the mission. Simply, at the beginning of the game, each player receives a card on which it is indicated for which animals the player will receive more points, and for which he will not receive at all. Only 5 animal species out of 8 are shown on the maps, which makes players compete harder for them. At the beginning of the game, these cards create a light atmosphere of the game "Mafia", everyone is thinking about who will collect the giraffes you need, and who will push the useless pandas, for which you will not get points anyway. But you can throw these pandas into your spare! They don't give a minus for them either!

 Supplement three: "Zooloretto XXL". It is the simplest. Just doubles the number of tokens. However, there is another side to such a sharp increase. There are too many animals! Now the reserve is swelling like yeast, and you have to buy a large aviary without fail, although this does not save the situation much. zoos of the world stand, apparently, empty cells) and cut off glasses for it. However, the course is not very profitable. 6 points for the first serve, 5 for the second, 4 for the rest.

 Other additions somehow did not work for me. Scatters of mini-addons from one Super Animal tile, such as King Kong, Christmas Reindeer, and other fabulous fauna, have a common drawback: they give a big advantage to whoever acquired that animal. "Zooloretto Exotic" introduces a new system of visitors to the game, which, as if from another game, was torn off. "Aqualoretto" (Shacht knows how to invent names) is the same thing, but filled with lappet.

 In our gaming group, which consists of girls, the game went with a bang! Fewer than two or three games in a row are played extremely rarely, since the duration of the game is 15-20 minutes. The number of jokes and pranks at the table is off the charts. The game is recommended to everyone who does not like complicated rules, as well as to all animal lovers.

 PS The most frequent phrase during the parties: "Buy an elephant!"