Congratulations to Michael Schacht and the folks at Abacusspiele on winning the coveted “Spiel des Jahres” award yesterday. For those of you who don’t follow board gaming that closely (probably most of you!), the Spiel des Jahres is the German award for Game of the Year. Think of it as the equivalent of the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Zooloretto is a simple game that can be played in about 45 minutes and my boys who are 6 picked it up pretty quickly. As trucks full of animals arrive at your zoo, players have to put them into the appropriate pens. Different types of animals can’t occupy the same pen, so you have to be careful not to take too many different types of animals. Ending up with animals that you can’t put into the limited number of pens cost you points, so you have to manage your zoo carefully.
And as my kids have pointed out – the Panda is really cute.
If you can’t find the game at your local hobby store, try picking it up on the net at Thoughthammer or Funagain Games.
