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Two By Two box art
2010 Ranked #8,349

Two By Two

A rescue strategy game has players move boats through a deteriorating landscape and match animal pairs for safety. Rare animals are worth more at the end, so each rescue affects future scoring.

Family Games Animals Environmental Set Collection Tile Placement

Players

2-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

8+

Complexity

1.5/5

Rating

5.96

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

Is this game right for my group?

ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.1/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.7/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

The floodwaters are rising and the animals need to board the ark! In this deceptively simple game, players move their boats around a steadily deteriorating landscape, matching pairs in order to rescue stranded animals.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Set Collection

Gather related items that become more valuable when scored together.
Tile Placement

Place tiles to build a shared or personal spatial arrangement.
Read the full game description

The floodwaters are rising and the animals need to board the ark! In this deceptively simple game, players move their boats around a steadily deteriorating landscape, matching pairs in order to rescue stranded animals. Animals that are rare at the end of the game are worth more points than those that are common. Two by Two is #6 in the Valley Games Modern Line.

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Type

1
Family Games

Category

6
Animals Environmental Exploration Mythology Nautical Religious

Mechanism

2
Set Collection Tile Placement

Family

6
Animals: Apes / Monkeys Animals: Bears Animals: Cats Animals: Dogs Animals: Elephants Animals: Fish / Fishes

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Editions

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
2–4
Play time
45 min
Age
8+
Complexity
1.5/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Rob Bartel

Artists

2
Patrick LaMontagne Mark Poole

Publishers

1
Valley Games, Inc.

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