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Reef Encounter of the Second Kind
Requires:Reef Encounter
Designed by Richard Breese
Published by R&D Games, What's Your Game? + 1 more
Expansion
Deep Strategy: 45+ Min Teach
Animals: Coral / Jellyfish / Anemones
Community Snapshot
Heavy complexity
60–150 min
7.1 on BGG (182)
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Categories
A heavy tile placement game playable in 60–150 min, rated 5.6 on BGG.
How It Plays
Enclosure
You're surrounding and claiming territory on the board — fence off your space before someone else does!
Hand Management
You have a hand of cards and deciding which to play, save, or discard is the core puzzle.
Set Collection
You're gathering matching groups of cards or tokens to score points — the more complete your sets, the better you do.
Tile Placement
You lay tiles on the table to build a map, landscape, or pattern — every piece you place changes the board.
About This Game
Reef Encounters of the Second Kind is an expansion set for Reef Encounter, introducing new creatures, opportunities, and tactics to the basic game. The crown of thorns starfish with their voracious appetites have now found the reef and will consume any corals that they can reach. Blue shrimps will assist host shrimps in protecting the larger corals, but these blue shrimps are notoriously unreliable.…
Source: BoardGameGeek