AmaZoom
AmaZoom Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Components
- 76 animal and habitat cards
- 2 reference cards
- 8 Conquista (achievement) cards
About the Classes: Invertebrates, Birds, Aquatic, Amphibians, Fish, Fruit-bearing, Mammals, Reptiles, Flowering.
Animal Cards
Each animal card shows:
- A. Clicks: the cost in Clicks to photograph that animal (take the card from the Forest and place it in your hand).
- B. Class: the class of that animal.
- C. Habitat: the type of vegetation on the back of the card.
- D. Set requirement: the number of identical animals needed to score likes.
- E. Class requirement: the classes needed to score likes.
The card diagram in the rulebook also labels "Units of identical cards in the deck" next to the card's class icon.
Habitat Cards
Every back of an animal card shows a habitat:
- Vegetation: the habitat is a type of vegetation. Any animal may be placed to its right, but only some animals score likes.
Setup
- Shuffle the cards. For 2 players, remove 25 cards. For 3 players, remove 15 cards.
- Starting hand: each player receives 3 random cards.
- Refill decks: separate the remaining cards into two piles, placed face up.
- Forest: place 7 cards in the centre of the table, side by side in a row.
- Reference: place the card with the "+1" icon on top of the first card of the row, and the card with the "-1" icon on top of the last card of the row.
- Shuffle the Conquista cards and select 2 of them for the game.
Objective
Accumulate the most likes (hearts) over the course of the game. These are the Victory Points.
Victory Points are obtained by:
- Meeting the requirements of the photographs you post (indicated on the cards), and also by the Conquistas you achieve;
- Forming sets of identical animals.
How to Play
On each turn, the player performs up to three optional actions, always in this order:
1. Discard
If you wish, discard cards from your hand. Discarded cards are placed in a discard pile, face up with the vegetation showing, and may not be consulted by any player.
2. Photograph
To photograph animals (take cards from the Forest to place in your hand), you must spend Clicks for each animal card you want. At the start of this phase, your available Clicks equal 5 minus the number of cards in your hand.
Attention: you may have at most 5 cards in your hand.
(Example: with 2 cards in hand you have 3 Clicks available, and may photograph 3 animals of cost 1; or 1 animal of cost 2 and another of cost 1; or 1 animal of cost 3.)
The rightmost card of the Forest costs 1 Click less, and the leftmost card costs 1 Click more.
After photographing: the Forest must always have 7 cards. Therefore, only after the photograph phase, slide all the cards in the Forest to the right and refill the empty space(s) with card(s) from the top of any refill pile. The active player decides which card(s) are drawn from each refill pile.
3. Post Photos
Add up to 2 cards from your hand to your photo collection on the table.
Your first post (the first card placed in your play area) may be any card in your hand.
The other cards must be placed to the right of the card already posted (placed on the table). However, you only score likes if the card meets the requirement of the card posted before it. For example:
The jaguar (Onça-pintada) gives 3 likes if the next animal posted is a reptile, 2 if it is a mammal, 2 if it is a fish, and 2 if it is a bird. In the example in the rulebook, a reptile was posted after the jaguar, so the player scores 3 likes for the post.
It is permitted to place any card at either end of the sequence of posts, even if it is not the requirement of the card already posted. In that case, however, that card does not score at the end of the game.
Forming Sets
If you already have an identical animal in your collection, you may place it on top of the existing card, forming a set. Or, if you prefer, you may simply place it to the right of your last post without counting as a set.
Sets score extra likes depending on the number of identical animals in them, as shown in the table below:
Points per set (Pontos por conjunto):
| Set size | Likes |
|---|---|
| 2 cards | 1 heart (see note) |
| 3 cards | 2 hearts |
| 4 cards | 4 hearts |
| 5 cards | 6 hearts |
Note: the printed table shows the 2-card row with a single heart icon and no numeral. It is read here as one like. The other rows show their numerals (2, 4, 6) before the heart.
In addition to the points for the set, each card in the set also counts its requirement likes for the next card. That is, a set of 4 identical animals scores for the requirement met 4 times, once for each animal in the set.
End of Game
The game ends when it is no longer possible to refill the Forest. At that moment, each player may post up to 2 photos in their sequence of posts.
Final Scoring
- Add, from left to right, the likes obtained by meeting the requirements of the cards.
- Add the extra points for sets formed (see the scoring example below).
- Add the Conquista points, if achieved.
The player with the most likes wins!
In case of a tie, the player with more posts (cards placed face down) wins. If the tie persists, the player with the greater variety of sets wins. If the players are still tied, they share the victory.
Scoring Example
- Gavião Real: requirement met: Mammals (4 points).
- Macaco-Prego: requirement met: Amphibians. Because it is a set of 4, each Macaco-Prego scores 1 point, because all 4 are interacting with amphibians (+4 points), and for the set (+4 points).
- Rã-de-Leite: the next card is a mammal, which does not meet its requirement, so it does not score (0 points).
- Tamanduá-Bandeira: requirement met: set of 3 photos of invertebrates (+4 points).
- Uruçu-Cinzenta: requirement met: Flowering. Because it is a set of 3, each Uruçu-Cinzenta scores 1 point, because all 3 are interacting with flowering plants (+3 points), and for the set (+2 points).
Total: 21 points.
Advanced Mode: Wild Photographer (Modo Fotógrafo Selvagem)
Now you may post photos before and after your timeline, that is, on the right end and also on the left end (to the left of the first photo posted). However, all posted photos must still meet the requirement of the photo before them, regardless of where they were posted.