Reef Encounter

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 shrimp counters. 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.

Description from the designer, Richard Breese.

Expanded by:
Reef Encounter of the Second Kind

AWARDS & HONORS:
2007 Games Magazine Best New Advanced Strategy Game Winner.
2006 Tric Trac Nominee.
2006 Nederlandse Spellenprijs Nominee.
2006 Golden Geek Best Gamer’s Board Game Nominee.
2005 International Gamers Awards - General Strategy; Multi-player Nominee.

COMPONENTS:
Cardboard:
1 Open Sea board (28.8x20.8cm)
4 Coral Reef boards (19.5x22.8)
10 Coal tiles (40x40mm)
200 Polyp tiles (25x25mm)
4 Parrotfish (square boxes, each assembled from 4 pieces; outer dimensions 60x60mm, inner space 36x36mm)
4 Turn Action aids (double-sided, 1 each player color - yellow, dark red, dark green, dark purple)
4 Player Screens (1 each player color)

Wood:
16 Shrimps (4x each player color, with painted eyes)
20 Algae (14mm dia. disks, 5x each alga color - blue, maroon, dark green, dark purple)
50 Larva (10mm cubes, 10x each coral color - gray, orange, white, coral pink, yellow)

1 Cloth bag (black, for Polyp tiles)

Rules (12 p.).

2-4

681706070063

Z-MAN GAMES

120

2004

10

Reef Encounter

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~$68.02

2026-01-31

2018-06-21 11:57:25