Mayfair Games

Mayfair Games, a renowned publisher of board and roleplaying games in the United States and United Kingdom, recently released a new educational title that prominently features Costa Rica and her biodiversity.

The game, which is titled “Costa Rica: Reveal the Rainforest,” is described by the publisher as follows:

Welcome to Costa Rica! This land is renowned for its rich diversity of insects and animals, and you are part of several teams that will explore and record the wildlife on this rainforest paradise. Each turn, you and your fellow explorers will reveal what is hiding. Will you take your data back, or keep pushing on, even though another explorer might take credit for your hard work?

 

The game is a tense race to catalog as many of the rainforest animals as they can while also trying to view each of the animals being researched. Avoid mosquitos, discover animals and prove that you are the best explorer in Costa Rica!

 

You and your fellow explorers are tracking the animals of the Costa Rican forest! Explore the streams, forests and highlands of the tropical land, and try to count as many animals as you can. As expedition leader, you choose which direction your group goes–but if you choose to press forward, others in your group may take credit for what you’ve found. And, if you encounter too many threats, your expedition may come to a premature end. Earn credit for animals (the more, the better) and for finding at least one of each of the animals. The player with the most points at the end of the game is the winner!

 

The game features 72 “rainforest” tiles that portray common animals as well as rare species within various terrain types. This stand-alone game is for up to five players and can be completed in 30-45 minutes. The game features a educational and historic theme that requires deductive reasoning. Minimum age: 8.

Mayfair Games was founded in the early 1980s by Darwin Bromley in Chicago.

In 1982, Mayfair released its War in the Falklands game just as the war ended, leading the English press to accuse Mayfair of “ghoulish” exploitation