Rio Grande Games 270 manual Overview, Contents, Preparation

for 2 to 5 players, aged 10 and up; length 45 minutes

OVERVIEW

Each player is the owner of a water zoo. Each player tries to lure as many visitors as possible into his water zoo and earns points for the visitors that visit his zoo. To create a zoo that people want to visit, a player must collect animals. When a player’s water zoo is successful, he may want to expand it. When a player’s animal basins are full, he must place additional animals into his depot, which loses him points at game end. When a player makes skillful use of his coworkers, he can gain additional points. The player with most points wins.

CONTENTS

16 coworkers

16 offspring tiles	88 animal tiles	10 coin tiles	30 coins
(2 each of 8 animal types) (11 each of 8 animal types)

			5 delivery trucks
		5 depot boards
5 water zoo boards	10 small expansion boards		1 round wooden disc
	10 large expansion boards

A water zoo with 19 spaces for animal tiles (on the board the corners of the spaces have bright crosses).

In addition, there are 2 checkout booths and 2 feeding stations.

A small expansion board with 3 spaces and a large expansion board with 4 spaces for animal tiles.

A depot board for all surplus tiles.

PREPARATION

●With 3 players, remove all animal and offspring tiles of two types from the game. With 4 players, remove all animal and offspring tiles of one type from the game. With 5 players, play with all tiles.

Note: do not remove dolphins, orcas, and sea lions.

Note: the rules for 2 players are at the end of these rules.

●Place the offspring tiles in the middle of the table. They have a circle on both the front and back. Shuffle all remaining tiles face down.

Count out 15 tiles and place them aside in a face down stack for use at game end. Place the round wooden disc on top of this stack to mark it as the reserve.

Build several face down stacks of any height with the remaining tiles. Players will draw tiles from these stacks during the game.

●Place as many delivery trucks in the middle of the table as there are players. Return the remaining delivery trucks, if any, to the box.

●Each player takes a water zoo board and a depot board, placing both in his play area (the space before him on the table). Additionally, each player takes 2 large and 2 small expansion boards, which he places face down in his play area.

Return unneeded boards to the box.

●Each player takes 1 coin, placing it in his play area. Place the remaining coins on the table as a supply (the bank).

●Place the coworkers as a supply on the table.

●The players choose a starting player using the method they prefer.

Before the first game, carefully remove the tiles from their frames.

Each player takes 1 coin, 1 water zoo board,

1 depot board, 2 small expansion boards, and 2 large expansion boards, placing them in his play area.