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Oct 19, 2025·Review·09:29·40·Watch on YouTube

Frank’s Zoo Board Game Review | Classic Card Climbing Game of Strategy & Fun

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Watch “Frank’s Zoo Board Game Review | Classic Card Climbing Game of Strategy & Fun,” a board game review for Frank's Zoo on BoardGameVideo.

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In this Frank’s Zoo Board Game Review, we take a look at the classic card-climbing game filled with clever strategy, animal hierarchy, and chaotic fun for friends and families alike! 🦁🐘🐭 Discover how players compete to play their animal cards in the right order, using teamwork and timing to outwit opponents and claim victory. We’ll cover the rules overview, gameplay experience, and what makes Frank’s Zoo such a beloved and timeless title for fans of light strategy and family card games. Whether you’re a longtime player or discovering this classic for the first time, see why it still holds up decades later! Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKqfRANVatVXgR-JyzXLT2g/join About Tabletop Gaming Guild Tabletop Gaming Guild is all about the memories and experiences that playing games with friends and family can create. To celebrate these experiences we produce video reviews, unboxing, playthroughs, and how to videos for tabletop games. It is our belief that tabletop games can help bring people together and create a shared sense of community. Links: Website: https://tabletopgamingguild.com/ Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/tabletopgamingguild Discord: https://discord.gg/fEYRsWe Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tabletopgamingguild Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/tabletopgamingguild Our logo was done by Reed Pritchard. You can check out more of his art at https://www.instagram.com/inkfeatherhummingbird/ Music composed by Ben Stratton.

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Frank's Zoo

Frank's Zoo

1999·Doris Matthäus, Frank Nestel

Videos
5
Creators
4

Mainly reviews. Frank's Zoo is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 3 reviews, 1 recorded sessions, and 1 unboxings.

3 - 7 players
60 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes

About Frank's Zoo, from BoardGameGeek:

This game is played in several hands. In each hand the players try to be the first to get rid of all of their cards. Their scores are based on how early in the hand they get rid of all their cards. There are two ways to play: you can play where all hands are played the same, or you can play the game with changing partners. This is a climbing game, similar to The Great Dalmuti, Tichu, and others. The difference here is that the ranks are different kinds of colorfully illustrated animals. Each is scared away only by certain other animals. Players set out one to whatever cards of a particular variety, and someone can play onto that pile only if they have more of that animal or an equal number of some animal that can scare it away. Players get points by playing all their cards, collecting lions, and collecting a hedgehog.

Designers

Doris Matthäus, Frank Nestel

Artists

Doris Matthäus, Frank Nestel

Publisher

Doris & Frank

Categories

AnimalsCard Game

Mechanics

Hand ManagementTrick-taking & Climbing
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