A card game for 1–5 players

Build the best zoo!

Collect animals, feed them and breed them. Hire new Workers and buy Equipment to raise young animals and complete a variety of tasks.

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1–5players
45–90 minplaying time
12+age
The Best ZOO game box with a smiling zookeeper and a scarlet macaw on the cover

How it plays

Ready to play in 15 minutes.

The five starting Action cards: Animal, Equipment, Feed, Money and Worker

Use Action cards to build up your zoo.

Each player starts with the same five Action cards: buy Equipment or a Worker, get new Feed or an Animal, or earn 3 coins.

Two face-down Action cards

Plan your actions in secret

You know the turn order for the round, but not which cards your opponents will play. In most rounds, each player takes one new card or some coins.

The Woolly Monkey card placed on the Fruit feed card

Keep every animal fed

Place each Animal on a Feed card. If an Animal eats two types of Feed, just one of them is enough.

Two Macaw cards and a victory point token

Breed your animals

Have a Pair of the same Animal at the end of a season? Roll a die. If you roll the number on the card or lower, you gain a victory point.

Score victory points at the end of the game.

Gain victory points for your Task cards and for the other cards you bought during the game.

The Birds task card with the Macaw, Ibis and Flamingo cards and three victory point tokens

Trailer

See Best ZOO in action

A one-minute look at the cards and the game on the table.

Coming soon to Gamefound

Ready to open your zoo?

Best ZOO is getting ready for its crowdfunding campaign. Send us an email and we will let you know as soon as it launches.

Get notified by email bestzoogame@gmail.com