Rio Grande Games 270 manual Playing the Game, ADD a Tile to a Delivery Truck

PLAYING THE GAME

The game is played over several rounds

On a player’s turn, he must perform one of the following three actions:

A. add a tile to a delivery truck or

B. take a delivery truck, ending the round for the player or

C. carry out a money action.

Play continues in clockwise order.

When all players have taken a delivery truck, the round ends and another begins.

A. ADD A TILE TO A DELIVERY TRUCK

The player draws the top-most tile from any stack and places it face up in an empty place on any delivery truck in the middle of the table (not any already taken by a player). That is his entire turn.

There can be at most 3 tiles on a delivery truck. If all delivery trucks in the middle of the table have 3 tiles, the play may not take this action. He must take action B or C.

Note: a player may only take tiles from the stack with the wood disc when all other stacks have been used!

B. TAKE A TRANSPORT WAGON, ENDING THE ROUND FOR THE PLAYER

The player takes any delivery truck from the middle of the table, placing it and the tiles on it in his play area.

He then, immediately, places the tiles from the delivery truck in his water zoo.

Note: the player may only take a delivery truck that has at least 1 tile on it!

After a player has taken a delivery truck, he takes no more turns in this round. He will again take turns as normal in the next round.

Any player who has taken a delivery truck in this round keeps it in his play area. This way, everyone can immediately see who has taken a delivery truck in this round.

When the player places tiles in his water zoo, he must follow these rules:

●Animal tiles

When the player has empty space in his water zoo, he may place the animal tile on an empty space and so begin a new basin or enlarge an existing basin.

Otherwise, the player must place the animal tile in his depot.

A basin consists of all neighboring tiles of the same animal type. Each basin can have tiles of only one animal type.

➡Start a new basin

If a player has no tiles of the animal type he is placing, he may start a new basin.

In order to start a new basin, the player places the tile on an empty space in his water zoo. It must be at least 1 space away (not adjacent to tiles) from any other basin.

Note: two tiles that touch only at their corners are not considered to be adjacent.

Important: the player is limited in the number of basins he has in his water zoo.

At the beginning a player may have only 3 basins. He can, thus, have at most 3 different animal types in his water zoo.

For each large expansion board he adds to his water zoo, he can have 1 additional basin with one addi- tional animal type.

The rules for adding expansion boards are described under "C. Carry out a money action".

➡Enlarge an existing basin

If the player already has a basin with this animal type, he must place the new animal tile either horizontally or vertically adjacent to another tile of that same animal types. Thus, he enlarges the basin.

When enlarging a basin, it must keep the rule of being at least 1 space away from all other basins.

When a player enlarges a basin to 3, 6, 9, or 12 tiles, he takes in each case 1 coin as a bonus. When he enlarges a basin to 5 or 10 tiles, he takes in each case 1 coworker as a bonus.

The coin and coworker bonuses are also explained in the paragraph "special situations".

➡Place a tile in his depot

Claus already has a basin with 3 dol- phins and wants to begin an Orca basin. He may not put an Orca tile on the spaces marked with an "x", because each basin must have at least one space distance to another.

If the player cannot or does not want to put the tile in his water zoo, he must place it in his depot. If there is already a tile (or more) in the depot, the player places the new tile on top, making a stack in his depot.

In a player’s depot, any number of different animal types may be stacked on top of each other. The limitation for the number of different animal types does not apply to the depot.

These tiles are not adjacent.