How do I play?

Objective: Score the most points by saving the most animals!

First, select the game difficulty, set up the board, and click "Start the Game!"

Then follow these 3 easy steps.

1. Draw a Number

You and the robot will take turns drawing cards.

Each card matches up with a tile on the game board.

All you have to do is decide what to play!

2. Use Your Resources

Here are the resources you can play:

• Gold coin - 6 points
• Silver coin - 4 points
• Bronze coin - 2 points
• Plain token - 1 point

Valued tokens = resources that aid in the preservation of animals

3. Defend and Destroy

And here are the special tokens you can play:

• Defender - protects all your surrounding tokens from being destroyed
• Bomb - destroys all your opponent's undefended tokens in the surrounding spaces

Defender tokens = animal sanctuaries where animals are protected

Bomb tokens = actions (intentional or unintentional) that are detrimental to other wildlife organizations

Here, for example, a bomb played by blue on tile 11 would destroy yellow on tile 0, green on tile 12, and red on tile 20. Red's gold coin on tile 2 is defended, and nothing happens to the blue token on tile 21.

4. Handle Twists & Turns

There are also several "Twists & Turns" cards with different instructions to follow:

Twists & Turns = unexpected events that affect animal preservation

How is the game scored?

At the end of the game, the score is based on how many resource points are on each animal:

• If you have more points on it, you win the animal.
• If the robot has more points on it, it wins the animal.
• If there are no tokens on it, or if there is an equal number of points on it, then nobody wins that animal.

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The number of animal points depends on the animal's size and can be seen here:

Lastly, each unused bomb earns a player 10 points, so be careful how you use your bombs!

Anything else I should know?

Enjoy some relaxing jungle music while you play! To turn the sound on or off, click this audio button at the top of the screen:

Lastly, if you're on a computer, these keyboard shortcuts might come in handy while you play:

• space - draw card
• 6 - play gold coin
• 4 - play silver coin
• 2 - play bronze coin
• 1 - play plain token
• d - play defender
• b - play bomb
• n - do nothing
• c - continue
• r - read question tile

To reference these during the game, just click this icon above the cards:

That's all! Enjoy your game!

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