Fantastic Park

Fantastic Park, by Brett J. Gilbert with Blue Orange Games, is a clever and dextrous tile-placement game for 2 to 5 players, ages 8 and up, with a game lasting about 30 minutes.

It's time to gather the animals all around us in Fantastic Park, but which animals does everyone want to see? We'll find out only after the animals have all found their places!

In the game, each player starts the round with a hand of four or five domino-style tiles, with each half of the tile showing one of four types of animal (with the same animal possibly appearing on both halves). Players take turns laying a domino on the table, with each placed domino after the first lying adjacent to at least one side of a tile or on top of two tiles.

Once everyone has only one domino in hand, players reveal that tile and score points for the round. For each type of animal on your tile, you find the largest orthogonally-connected group of that animal, then score 1 point for each animal in the group. If you have the same animal on both halves of your last tile, you score that animal twice. If you have a type of animal on your tile that no one else has, double the score for that animal.

After scoring, return the revealed tile to hand, then draw more tiles to fill your hand once again. After a certain number of rounds, whoever has the most points wins!