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If you hung around your local zoo after it closed for the night, you’d see the nighttime rituals of the exotic animals you visited during the day. You’d see cages being cleaned and souvenir stands being restocked. If you were lucky, you might catch an impromptu seal show or moonlight nightingale concert.
And if you stayed late enough, long after the last employee had left for the night, you just might see the greatest, and most secret, of all zoo attractions—the late-night Kung Fu fights!
Welcome to Kung Fu Zoo!
Kung Fu Zoo is a dice-flicking dexterity game for 2-4 players. You control a team of highly-trained animals, from crocodiles to zebras, in a Kung Fu battle against your rivals. Who will be tonight’s champions of the zoo? Grab some dice and find out!
In Kung Fu Zoo, players use six-sided animal dice to do battle in an enclosed arena. There are two gameplay variants: Cage Battle and Points Match. In either variant, players start with a team of dice-animals. But the similarities stop there. In a Cage Battle, players take turns flicking their animals into the arena. Your goal is to knock your opponent’s animals onto their backs (stunning them) or through holes on the board (the “cages”). You win the match when all of your opponent’s animals are stunned or in cages. The first player to win three matches wins! In a Points Match, players take turns flicking their animals into the arena. Your goal is to score 21 points before your opponent. Points are awarded at the end of each round, based upon the position of your dice that are left on the board.
Ages | 10+ |
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Players | 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players |
Play Time | 5m – 10m |
Designer | Charlie Price |
Theme | Action / Dexterity, Animals, Dice, Fighting, Sports |
Publisher | (Self-Published), WizKids, Broadway Toys LTD |
Leppry_Khan
The first play-through I felt like I grossly overpaid for this ($40) but after a few rounds I was really getting into it. I just wish the wooden version in the demo video was something that was available. I see the cardboard bending or getting warped after time from all the handling. As for the gameplay, the dice flicking can get a little tricky but that's most of the fun. We ended up disregarding the special powers of the animals and just having a go. Pretty fun game when all is said and done though I still feel like anything over $25 is a bit steep for this one.
Dopeski
Simple and fun dice flicking game. Very, very random. Best played at the end of a gaming session when people are brain dead.
Brekhof
The reason it left my collection is that I own more interesting flicking games. It is not a bad game by any stretch.