Zoomies

We got Zoomies a few weeks back but didn't have a chance to play it until now.  It looked simple enough, just a big stack of oversized thick dominos with fun dog art, and some little tokens.

The game starts with three dominos face up in the middle of the table and each player with two dominos in hand.

Basically, each round you play a domino and put a token on top.  When both players have used all their tokens (or were forced to discard them) the game is over.  Scoring is done at the end of the game.  The tokens are:
- Leader: you get one point for all matching adjacent dogs in the pack
- Frens: you place on one dog pointing at a different dog and those two are now friends, at the end of the game you get 2 points per pair of friends
- Zoomies: you make a group of adjacent dogs with the zoomies (paw) icon, and get 1 point for a group of one, up to 15 for a group of 5.
- Bones: you make a group of adjacent dogs with the Bones icon and get 2 points for each

It's a bit confusing at first, but it does keep its nice simple feel, and if you do get frustrated there are plenty of funny pups to look at.  By our third game, it all made sense, though it felt like the more we concentrated on scoring, the worse we did.  In fact, that feeling was not true, as our scores were actually improving, from about 67 points in the first game to 73 in the third.

This is a fun way to pass some time.  It's not unusual to see a better move right after your turn passes.  I suppose a player could take the scoring too seriously, but it's just deep enough to keep it interesting.