ScottVee Gaming

Following the story told in my previous post, the second game of the day was Zoo Run.  Another card game technically made for kids, but again, it had an interesting card mechanic that I thought was worth checking out. It turns out it's two games in one.  That is ALWAYS a bonus for me, when the game developer thinks up more than one use for the components they created. The first game is about rescuing animals from the enclosure before the mean old zookeeper gets there to stop you.  It looks like this: The way the cards are played, you get three cards, each showing the front or rear of animals at top, middle and bottom.  Players show their cards at the same time, and arrange them to match as many heads and butts as they can.  At first it looked like it might not always work out, but the rules assured us there will always be at least one match.  Here, I completed an elephant, a wildcat and a panda. How the game works: a certain number of tokens are put in the...

I stopped at the local game shop thursday night and looked around for small, animal-themed games.  Like usual, I forgot to bring my reading glasses, so I couldn't see all the small print.  And when I found two and went up to the register, the guy asked me what age group I was buying these for.  I said we're adults but sometimes the kids' games just have fun twists.  So, okay, when I got home, I had Making Christmas (ages 6+) and Zoo Run (ages 4+).  However, each appeared to have an unusual card mechanic I had not seen before.  So, saturday rolled around and we cracked them open.  Making Christmas was based on the classic Nightmare Before Christmas movie.  Well, they just licensed some characters, but as you recall, when the halloween creatures were trying to imagine Christmas, they put icky toys into presents and scared all the kids.  Good times. Anyway, the game has a little board that cleverly fits in the small box only because it was broke...