Primates Tutorial, Playthrough, and Review | Bits & Biology

Welcome to Bits & Biology, a channel about board games from the perspective of a biologist gamer. In this video I play through a two-player game of Primates. Timestamps can be found below in case you want to skip around.

Primates is a resource management game for 1-4 players that plays in about an hour.

In Primates you are moving your primates up the branches of a phylogenetic tree, claiming food and discovering extinct primates along the way. Waiting at the top of each branch is a different extant primate species that will earn you points and grant you one-time abilities to help you outmaneuver your opponents, earn the most points, and win the game!

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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
1:02 Overview and setup
6:42 Player turns
8:56 How movement works
9:22 Game start
9:24 Round 1
12:16 Round 2
15:25 Round 3
20:47 Round 4
26:47 Round 5
35:58 Round 6
42:10 Some thoughts on the roll & move mechanism
43:51 Round 7
55:38 Round 8
1:02:49 Round 9
1:08:25 Round 10
1:17:36 Scoring
1:20:00 Review
1:22:06 A bit of a long tangent looking at some of the bonus cards
1:24:33 Done with the bonus cards – back to the regular review
1:40:38 Mini expansions
1:40:42 Lemurs mini expansion
1:42:44 New world monkeys mini expansion
1:43:54 Incredible behaviors mini expansion
1:45:06 Biodiversity mini expansion
1:45:46 Bonus biology info
1:47:35 Review summary


Link to Primates on Board Game Geek: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/4...


Longer game variant: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UZGM...

Online FAQ: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b...

200 Fun Facts About the Mouse Lemur by Lydia Green, Research Scientist at Duke Lemur Center: https://lemur.duke.edu/200-words-fun-...

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