Annotated Games: 4 Players, version 0,6

This game was played during the game testing of The Mara. For testing purposes, Yellow plays a 3 card strategy and Red a 2 card strategy. Blue starts with a 0 card strategy to learn more about the animals first while Black plays a "quick" 1 card strategy to drop off tourists as soon as possible if better cards are available.

Each round is documented with player action, picked up cards (animal+colors) and current victory points. Tiles that are known only to some players are faded out.

Start

Round 1

All players pick a up a tourist cards except Blue, who starts without a tourist and learn about the surroundings. She does find a purple insect matching a tourist back in the lodge but wants to find more matching animals before returning.

Round 2

Yellow can only drive 1 track with her 2 tourist cards. Red decides to drive 2 tracks to place her jeep between an orange and a purple tile before she starts peeking. Blue drives 2 tracks this turn and use her remaining actions to peek twice and learn four more tiles. Black only needs to drive 1 track to place her jeep between two tiles of interest and is fortunate to find a green carnivore matching one of her tourists when peeking.

Round 3

Yellow peeks at her two adjacent tiles and one of them turns out to be a matching green amphibian. Red also peeks and finds a matching orange bird. She decides to turn back to the lodge to drop off the tourist immediately. Blue continues to drive and peek and now she finds a second primate along her track, which is good given that the primate lodge is nearby. Black decides to drive towards the insect lodge with her tourist.

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Annotated games

• Version 0.9: 4 players
• Version 0.6: 4 players
• Version 0.4: 4 players

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