Reef Encounter
3 - 4 players
Ages 10 & up
Playing time: 1-2 hours
Publisher: Zman Games
Author: Richard Breese

Dive into the Tropical Seas and gaze in astonishment at the brilliant colors of the Barrier Reef...

Life a 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 shrimps on them at least until you are able to devour those multicolored coral polyps with your parrot fish...
The players' scores depend on the quantity and kind of coral polyps that their fish have eaten.

Reef Encounter is a fascinating strategy game which reproduces life in the Coral Reef and the game components will aid in immersing the players in this silent and extraordinary underwater world.

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.

Contents: 16 wooden shrimp, 20 wooden alga cylinders, 50 wooden larva cubes, 200 polyp tiles, 10 coral tiles, 4 parrotfish containers, 4 coral reef boards, 1 open sea board, 4 player screens, 4 turn action cards, 1 cloth bag. Box size approximately 30 x 23 x 7cm.