Reef Encounter

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.

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
	Games Magazine Winner Best Advanced Strategy 2007

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