Wild Animalopoly has all the fun of a traditional real estate trading game with some wild animal twists. Instead of buying property, players become caretakers of animals. Instead of rent, players pay Meal Fees. A player collects four Elements - the land, water, food and clean air that all animals need to survive and trades them in for a Habitat where an animal can survive on its own. Flip over the Animal Certificates and you'll find several fun facts about each animal. Did you know a polar bear has coal-black skin' Or that a flamingo is pink because it eats shrimp' How about the fact that a giraffe hoof is the size of a large dinner plate' It's all fun and games until you land on "Hide From Predator"--then you're out for 3 turns. This game is wild.
One of the myriad "Opoly" games (some of which are either homages to or direct rip-offs of the classic Parker Brothers real estate trading game), Wild Animalopoly arrives with a couple of educational twists in its tail. It plays like the 1935 archetype, but with a decidedly pro-animal spin. Deeds to properties become caretaker certificates for animals (Boardwalk and Park Place are replaced by Elephant and Rhinoceros, for example); rents become meal fees; and houses and hotels are elements and habitats. Even Go To Jail is retooled as Hide From Predators. And, in a nod to the way most people play Monopoly, Wild Animalopoly's version of Free Parking (here called Watering Hole) allows for collection of extra dough when players land on it. (In Monopoly there's actually a rule that forbids this, though most players make the bank pony up half a grand anyway.) The object of both games is the same--highest cash value wins--but this wedding of Okapi to Oriental Avenue, Community Chest to Chameleon makes for domestic, and domesticated, fun. --Tony Mason

WILD ANIMALOPOLY has all the fun of a traditional real estate trading game with some wild animal twists. Instead of buying property, players become caretakers of animals. Instead of rent, players pay meal fees. A player collects four elements which are the land, water; food and clean air that all animals need to survive and trades them in for a Habitat where an animal can survive on its own. Flip over the animal certificates and you'll find several fun facts about each animal.