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On the Origin of Species
45m - 80m
2 - 4 Players
Ages 9+
Hand management games are games with cards in them that reward players for playing the cards in certain sequences or groups. The optimal sequence/grouping may vary, depending on board position, cards held and cards played by opponents. Managing your hand means gaining the most value out of available cards under given circumstances. Cards often have multiple uses in the game, further obfuscating an "optimal" sequence.
Hand Management
Tile Placement games feature placing a piece to score VPs, with the amount often based on adjacent pieces or pieces in the same group/cluster, and keying off non-spatial properties like color, "feature completion", cluster size etc.
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Animals
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buch
Played with reduced rules at Essen 19. The artwork is gorgeous. The game as such didn't quite hit home for us.
cbazler
Great theme and presentation, boring gameplay. Although there is a little bit of tension as players jostle over the species tiles, there just aren't enough compelling decisions to keep my interest over the length over the game. Halfway-through it starts to get really repetitive and I'm just waiting for it to end.
GarfieldKlon
I didn't feel the theme. And I didn't like the mechanism placing cube for purchasing animal tiles. It happens a lot that others are purchasing the tile you wanted and then you have to rearrange your cubes. Too repetitive. [c] Theme: :star::star::nostar::nostar::nostar: [size=7]Very little[/size] Gameplay: :star::star::nostar::nostar::nostar: [size=7]Too repetitive[/size] Interaction: :star::star::star::nostar::nostar: [size=7]Race for the animal tiles[/size] Artwork: :star::star::star::star::nostar: [size=7]Nice[/size] Luck: :star::star::star::nostar::nostar: [size=7]Random cards[/size] Strategy: :star::nostar::nostar::nostar::nostar: [size=7]Very little[/size] Components: :star::star::star::nostar::nostar: [size=7]Ok, nothing special[/size] Play duration: :star::star::star::star::nostar: [size=7]Good[/size] Easy to teach: :star::star::star::star::nostar: [size=7]Quite easy (15min)[/size] Rules quality: [size=7]not read[/size] Setup time: :star::star::star::star::nostar: [size=7]Fast[/size] No downtime: :star::star::star::star::nostar: [size=7]Almost no downtime[/size] Replay value: :star::star::nostar::nostar::nostar: [size=7]Random animal tiles[/size] [/c]