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love the synergy when you 3 are together. i can understand the logistics must be difficult but please tom, whenever possible, make it a trio. thanks and keep up the great work
Expansions: whenever we play, we use the polar bear, the souvenir shop, the petting zoos, the mini-enclosures, the restaurant and the gazebo thingys. I think they add a lot of good flavor and options to the game. We generally don't use the building sites and the selling to other zoos.
I don't know what it is but i really like the opening theme for Miami dice......(and typing that i just now got the reference.....slowwww) .... gets me moving in my seat every time.
This is the game I played most! Still loving it. I can play it with old people and kids! Everybody understand it and it's smarter than you think (I always win eh eh eh....)
Has anyone tried "California" by Michael Schacht? It's very similar but you are decorating a house. The way you buy things is pretty neat. The turn system is different, once the money at the bank is used up for the day (turn), the tiles that other players choose from get cycled out, possibly forever until the last turn. It's certainly different.
I own Aquaretto (the better game compared to Zooloretto) and Coloretto, love both games. Zee is totally right, I miss that coin action board everytime I teach this game, other than that sweet game.
I mean to say that Scott is Sanguine not Phlegmatic - Sanguine is the upbeat happy one. Ryan M. is more the phlegmatic, even keeled mellow one (the Straight Man - Bud Abbot to your Costello).
no no I got it: Eric S. = Scary Clown (imagine him staring through your window at night with a clown suit), Zee = Sad Clown, Tom = Happy Clown, Slammin Sammy = Angry Clown, and Ryan M. is the straight guy. Regardless - Zee goes left, Tom front and center and Slammin Sammy goes right. Anything else feels off balance.
Eric Sumner is more in the order of Jerry Lewis crazy Spaz clown (my favorite type). He is a one man show (he could hold his own without the straight man Deano). Keep on keeping on Bruddas from udda Muthas!
I'm sorry guys but the alchemy is off with the new layout. Scott (Happy Clown) belongs in the middle - he is the archetypal mediator narrator and moderator between Slamming Sammy (Angry Clown) and Silver Tongued, Zee (sad clown). Zee in the middle feels a little downtrodden. You need Zee to the left to feed off of Red Hot Sam to the right with Scott in the middle to provide the voice of commonality and reason. Its the melancholic, phlegmatic, and choleric somatotypes must be in order.