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The Endangered Species Board Game
Endangered Species is a family game for two or more players.
This edition has 2 games namely Habitat and Trivia.
Game Equipment:
16 chips, 40 tiles, 1 pair of dice, a deck of cards and 1
game board.
Game A. Habitat
Objective of the Game:
The objective of the game is to be the first player to move
all his/her animals from endangerment to their respective habitats.
Rules:
2 Players
Two players can choose to either play full board or half board.
Full Board; Each
player selects two different types of animals to save, that is, a total of 8
animals/chips per player, thus making use of the full board.
Half Board; Each
player selects only 1 type of animal/chip to save, that is, a total of 4
animals/chips of the same type of animal per player, thus making use of only
half of the board.
3 players:
Each player selects only 1 type of animal/chip to save, that
is, a total of 4 animals/chips of the same type of animal per player. One
square of animals is left un-played.
4 players:
Each player selects only 1 type of animal/chip to move, that
is, a total of 4 animals/chips of the same type of animal each. Each player
should place their 4 chips on the blue elevated square to their right. There is
1 blue elevated square at each corner of the board.
Each player puts 1of their animals/chips
at a time on the brightly colored square (the “endangered zone”) at the
center of the board.
The player can
choose to perform only one of the following actions
i.
Move only one of
his/her animals in the endangered zone into play by counting 6
ii.
Move any one of his/her animals already in play any
number of steps from 1-6 forward.
iii.
Send any one animal only of his/her choice of either
one or all of the opponent’s animal back into the endangered zone.
This symbol represents ozone layer depletion,
caused by environmental pollution, a cause of global warming.
Move 3 steps
backwards.
This symbol represents planting a tree. Move 3 steps forwards.
This symbol
represents recycling. It is a major conservation initiative.
Recycle; throw your dice once more.
This is the symbol for crosshairs representing
game hunting. Hunting is a major threat to several species.
Go back into the
endangered zone.
This represents indiscriminate tree felling a
cause of habitat loss.
Move 6 steps
backwards.
These are windmills representing renewable
energy sources.
By keeping at least
one animal on this spot an opposing player can not send any of your animals
back into the endangered zone.
Public transportation helps reduce
pollution and the need for more roads.
Move every animal 1
space forward.
Role the dice and play again!!!
Game B. Trivia
4 players
The deck of cards is required for this game. The animals on
the circumference of the game are also required for this game. Two or more
players can play.
Objective: Since to be successfully able to keep the animals
in the zoo you have to be able to re-create their natural habitat and provide
for their natural needs such as food, you must learn as much about these
animals as possible.
The objective of this game is for each player to collect 3
consecutive and adjacent animals for his/her zoo. The animals are collected by
answering the trivia questions related to each corresponding animal in the deck
of cards.
The first player to collect three consecutive animals wins.
Preamble:
Each player throws the dice in turn. Each player selects a
side of the board starting with the player with the highest number, one player
on each side of the board. Select a chip each as your counter and place marker
in the order of the throw of the dice, low to high.
Each player must select a different color of chip. (Note: if
there is a tie at the throw of the dice, the tied players must re-throw the
pair of dice until the tie is broken).
Each player should select a stack of 10 tiles, a color per
player for the purpose of identifying his/her animals.
At each corner of the board is an elevated blue square. Each
player should place his/her chip and stack of tiles on the elevated blue square
to his/her right. That is the respective starting point for each player.
All participating players must decide how many questions
each player will be required to answer to collect the animal. Each player will
be required to answer equal number of questions.
Easy – 1 question; Average – 2 questions; Expert – 3
questions
Divide the deck of cards among each other so that each
player has the complete set of cards for all the animals on his/her side of the
board, which are 10 in all. Place your cards face down.
Start:
To start take turns throwing the dice starting with the
player with the highest throw of the dice at the beginning. Using your chip as
counter and place marker, count clockwise, from right to left. Each player must
complete one cycle of the board before any animal collection can begin.
Once a player has gone round the board once by advancing
his/her chip clockwise in relation to his/her dice throw, animal collection may
begin. No player can collect any of the animals for which he/she holds the
cards, meaning you can not collect animals on your side of the board. You may
only collect animals on any of the three other sides of the game for which you
don’t hold the cards, meaning the two adjacent and one opposite side to yours.
If a player lands on any of the animals on his/her side of
the game for which she holds the cards, that player must wait another turn to
play again and proceed.
When a player lands on any of the 3 sides either adjacent or
opposite to his side of the board, the player on that side of the board on
which the opposing player has landed and who also holds the card for the
respective animal will ask the predetermined number of question(s), 1, 2 or 3
from the card corresponding to that animal from the opposing player. If the
opposing player answers the question(s) correctly, he collects and keeps the
card for that animal and places a tile from his/her stack of 10 on the animal
to identify it as already possessed.
If the opposing player is unable to answer the question(s)
correctly he/she does not get the card and must wait another turn to play
again.
A player may choose to skip answering questions relating to
any animal on which he/she lands if he/she is unsure of the answers.
If a player chooses to answer the questions for any animal
on which he or she lands and fails, that player must serve a penalty by missing
his/her next turn to throw the dice.
Note:
The player asking the questions chooses which questions to
ask in no particular order. If more than one question is being asked, the first
question must be answered correctly first before the second question is asked.
If the first question is answered incorrectly, you must not ask any other
questions. The player must wait another turn to play.
When more than one question is being asked, you may only ask
one question each from each field. Fields are weight, habitat, birth rate,
threats etc.
For questions where the answer is a range, for example
weight = 5 – 10 kg, the correct answer is any number from 5 to 10 or any range
from 5 to 10.
Where there is more than one applicable answer, any one of
the applicable answers is correct, for example if the animal faces more than
one threat, any of the threat the animal faces is correct, or if the animal
eats more than one food type, any of those food types is correct.
The goal of each
player is to collect three consecutive adjacent animals. The first player to do
this wins.
Each player may try to prevent any of the opposing players from collecting three adjacent animals by collecting any of the animals
the opposing player needs to make a
complete set of three before the opposing player does. This move is called blocking.
To block an opposing player a player must land on the
particular animal he/she wants to block with and collect that animal by
answering the required question(s). Note; you can only make a block if you do
not hold the card for that animal, that is, if the animal is not on your side
of the board. If a player attempts to make a block by selecting to answer the
questions for a particular animal and fails by answering the question(s)
incorrectly, that player must serve a penalty by missing his/her next turn to
throw the dice and the player who was to be blocked is awarded a free throw of
the dice.
Each player may
collect a maximum of 10 animals for the purpose of blocking other players or
trading but can only win when he/she has collected 3 consecutive adjacent
animals.
Opposing players may
trade cards. Only cards that have been collected by answering the question(s)
may be traded. No player may trade with or for any of the cards that was
distributed at the beginning of the game. Players may trade animals if they
both have animals they are willing to exchange.
To trade for an animal a player must land on an animal he/she intends to trade for which has already been collected by another player. The player who wants to trade after landing on the animal he intends to trade for notifies the player that has collected the animal of his intentions and lets him/her know which animal will be traded for the animal. If the player that owns the animal agrees
to the trade he then picks the card corresponding to that animal and asks the player who has initiated the trade the required number of question(s). If the questions are answered correctly he collects the card and replaces the tile. He must then ask the other player the required number of question(s) from the card of his own animal. If the question(s) is answered correctly, the trade is completed.
Any of the players that answer the question(s) incorrectly
will not collect the animal that is being traded for.
A player is not obliged to trade if the trade is not
favorable.
Credits
Data and information: Paul Massicot; www.animalinfo.org
Pictures: Arabian Oryx – www.arabian oryx.com; Cuvier’s Gazelle – Marcia Fisher, The Living
Desert Zoos and Gardens; Jentinks Duiker – Brent Huffman, www.ultimateungulate.com; Golden
Bamboo Lemur – George Williams; Humpback
Whale – Salvatore Cerchio, Revilla
Whale Project; Tenkile (Scott’s Tree Kangaroo) – www.unitech.ac.pg;
Mountain Tapir – Sheryl Todd, Tapir preservation Fund www.tapirback.com; Malayan Tapir – Audrey Jakab, www.tapirback.com; Black-Footed
Ferret – Robert Powell; Vancouver
Island Marmot – Diane Casimir, Calgary Zoological
Society; Grevy’s Zebra – Bret Huffman, www.ultimateungulate.com;
Snow Leopard – Realms of the Snow
Leopard; Addax – Marcia Fisher, The
Living Desert Zoos and Gardens; Tibetan
Antelope (Chiru) – WCS;
Thanks to all the individuals and organizations who contributed to this
game, and to my wife, Lisa Francine. – A.O.F
Copyright ©
2002 by Abiola Folarin.
All rights reserved. Published
by Abiola Folarin Enterprises.
www.abifol.com
Author
reserves all rights to modify the rules at anytime without prior notification.
All rule modifications, new rules and new games will be available online at www.abifol.com.
No part of this publication may be reproduced, or
stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means,
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permission of the publisher. For information regarding permission, write to
Abiola Folarin Enterprises, Licensing Department,
Printed in
First Printing, January 2003
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