Stencil City Zoo

Stencil City Zoo is quick roll-and-write with light euro-style bidding and resource management, and fun, creative map drawing.

Note: Requires pencil and highlighter for each player (not included).

Draw your own freeform Zoo map in this quick and light, euro-style roll and write (well, actually card-and-write, there are no dice in the game).

Each round players use their workers to bid on building and animal cards to improve their zoo. Workers not spent in bidding can be used to breed more animals. Winning bids can give you more workers to bid in the future, more and better animals to draw, or scenic viewing buildings for your visitors to take great photos, post them to Instagram, and earn you big multipliers.

After bidding, players draw simultaneously, minimizing downtime. The game includes a unique laser-cut acrylic stencil to help draw the animal and building shapes, for fast and fair drawing action. Highlighter lines represent paths and viewing areas that visitors can travel. Plenty of animals have constraints and combinations like sharing an enclosure or requiring a lake keep things strategic and encourages tricky choices and tradeoffs to emerge.