Bumuntu

I’ve only got one play in a four player game, but it was fun. We used the recommended animals to start, which is all of them but two other types, so some slight variability each game. All the animals have cool powers, there were a few points when a decision was tough because of the particular power you could use. The banana tokens are helpful when a player moves you off a tile which renders you only able to move one space unless you can get back on top of a tile at the start of your turn, hence the banana which give you 1 free movement per token. We had one player use a banana almost every turn and two of us who saved bananas for one or two big moves, not sure which is better. Set collecting of the animal tiles correlated to the modular scoring board which changes all throughout the game and your elephants may be worth 2 points a piece at the start of the game now your four elephants may get you a total of 7 points if you have the most or 2 points if you have then next most and that all happened when the elephant scoring marker was manipulated up and down the board. The game ends when all the brown backed tiles are taken and then one of these is taken is how players can manipulate the scoring of animals. We had all (13) but three of these manipulation events targeted at one animal. You can only move an animals board up or down the track one spot. So if I move the chimpanzees from the 6 point for majority spot down to the 5 point for majority spot, the next player can take a brown backed tile and undo my move. This meant all the other animal board stayed at their randomized original setup. With 8 animal tiles per animal, we found if you capture 3 of an animal you may win majority and if you got 4 you most certainly will. There is one 2 vp per animal and one 1 vp per animal scoring spot, all others are for majority with the highest majority scoring being 7 points for first and 2 points for second, ties for second net 1 vp each, ties for first I think get the second place points and then no second place scoring. The final little scoring is two special symbols and one is a majority scoring which gives 6 vp or 3 vp for first and second respectively. The bigger of the two does compound scoring (?) as your first tile gives 1 vp, but your second gives 2, 3 gives 4, 4 gives 6, 5 gives 9, up to all 8 for 20. Our game had a guy target that and got 5. He also won majority on one animal and scored second maybe twice. He won by 2 points. You can’t do everything but trying to manipulate the scoring to your favorite is key, also very tough, may try a house rule and allow moving a tile up or down two spaces instead of one. You can spread yourself thin or you won’t score majority. It’s tough to think the player who gets the compound scoring tiles will win each time. Two or three people have to all spread those out to make their scoring not as large. Definitely looking forward to playing again. Try it for yourself!