Zooloretto: The Dice Game First Impressions
Zooloretto: The Dice Game, “The Dice game” tag can go either way.
This one lands on the right side.
Zooloretto: The Dice Game takes the basic Zooloretto / Coloretto game play – on a turn either add to the offerings on display, or take one set of offerings – and replaces the cards with dice so that you’ll never know which animals will pop up for you to take. Each player has her own score sheet, which represents her zoo, with space for five types of animals: one crocodile, two ostriches, up to five lions. The score sheet also has space to collect coins and barns for animals that don’t fit in the appropriate pens.
I enjoyed Zooloretto (the board game one). It involved pulling tiles from a bag, placing them in trucks, taking trucks and putting animals into pens. The goal is to fill pens with the same kind of animal. But, without taking too many of that animal so you get an overflow.
Overflow is bad and the point of the game.
There are some other bits such as having money to buy expansions and adding stalls to do things n stuff and while it’s fun and very very cute… it’s a little bloated.
The Dice Game
Zooloretto: The Dice Game gets rid of this extra stuff and boils it down closer to what I assume Coloretto is. (not having played it at all)
You either roll 2 dice and put them on trucks, or take a truck and pass.
Instead of adding tiles to a nice-looking zoo you just cross them off on a sheet of paper. If you’re the first player to fill up a pen you get a bonus of +1 or +2 points. But obviously, the more you push the more likely you leave yourself open to getting that overflow penalty.
This is shown by crossing off a penalty barn from the sheet.
The game ends once a player has filled all their animal pens. Players get a point for each animal and any bonuses. Lose two points for each barn ticked off ignoring one of these penalties for each group of coins collected. The player with the highest score is the winner.
Zooloretto: The Dice Game Summary
This was a fun, quick game and I would play it again. I much prefered it tot he board game.
Jesta ThaRogue
