| DESCRIPTION
Dive into the Tropical Seas and gaze in astonishment at the brilliant colors of
the Barrier Reef...
Life in the depths of the sea is not always so calm though: corals will grow
quickly and you'll have to protect them by placing stout shrimp on them at least
until you are able to devour those multicolored coral polyps with your parrot
fish...
The players' score depend on the quantity and kind of coral polyps that their
fish have eaten.
Reef Encounter is about life on a coral reef! Using polyp tiles, players grow
different types of corals, which they can protect from being attacked by other
corals through judicious placing of their four wooden shrimp.
To be successful players must consume polyps from neighboring corals in order to
acquire the "consumed" polyp tiles that are the key to the game. The consumed
polyp tiles have a myriad of uses (and have a similar effect to the action
points in games like Tikal
and Java). Most importantly they can
be used to flip over or lock the coral tiles, which determine the respective
values of the different types of coral at the end of the game.
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COMPONENTS
70 Wooden Pieces
- 20 Wooden Alga cylinders
- 50 Wooden Larva cubes
16 Wooden Shrimps
200 Polyp Tiles
10 Corral Tiles
4 Parrotfish Containers
4 Corral Reef boards
1 Open Sea board
4 Player Screens
4 Turn Action Cards
1 Rule Book
1 Cloth Bag
| AWARDS |
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Games Magazine
Winner Best Advanced Strategy 2007 |
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