Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
How it plays
How does it play?
Which animal is smarter? Giraffe, zebra, elephant, lion or gazelle?
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
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Which animal is smarter? Giraffe, zebra, elephant, lion or gazelle? The animals decided to check it out and organized a race to the watering hole. Join the race and help your pack of animals! Sawanna is a family game that develops planning skills and logical thinking. Every player has a team of five animals, which move on the tight racetrack leading to the water source. The one who places at least two in the water first wins the game. In order to move the animals, players roll the dice. Every turn player roll all the dice, pick some of them and place on selected animal tile. Every animal is moved by two kinds of dice result only and player need to distribute his roll wisely. After that, the player may finish the placement and execute the moves or roll again excess dice and try to distribute them on additional animals. Of course, there is a catch: If you cannot place the dice correctly, your turn is lost. In advanced mode, every kind of animal have special ability: Giraffe has the longest neck, so may reach the water from neighboring space. Gazelle is the most agile and can jump over other animals. Elephant is the toughest one and other animals cannot stop him. Lion can scare other animals and force them to yield the way, while the zebra is able to change the track during its move.