History VideoGame / ZookeeperBattle

** The drunken Boss status makes Curator tiles appear on the board. They're worth no points or combos and stay for the rest of the damn turn.

** From the Bingo mission: "Let's challenge! Put your heart into the challenge!" The "let's" is an instance of GratuitousEnglish.

** There's a limit of 10 visitors in the My Zoo feature, which will irritatingly interrupt you play sections by not only forcing you to go there and click on them but also spawning an invader boss on the zoo.

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: The CPU on boss fights has pre-set large amounts of attack and defense regardless of which lucky animal is on, plus a chance of triggering a status effect. Beating a level 3 or rare boss without spending power bottles is a matter of luck.

* PlayEveryDay: Encouraged by the daily bonus and the various timed events.

** Whenever you tap a SP panel to prolong a chain and it doesn't.
** The [[TooAwesomeToUse limited]] Shuffle items also can end up yielding no good results.

* HopeSpot: The opponent's stats are hidden to either player, so while the winner will immediately know they won if they break the opponent's defense with enough attack left to KO them, the losing player will cling on to the hope of the opponent not having enough attack until the end.

* BlindIdiotTranslation: When all three phases of the Jungle Adventure event are cleared, the curator says "You are finished the hunt this time now!"

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: The CPU on boss fights has pre-set large amounts of attack and defense regardless of which lucky animal is on, plus a chance of triggering a status effect. Beating a level 3 boss without spending power bottles is a matter of luck.

** Players are ultimately at the mercy of the RandomNumberGod. Sometimes the game plays itself. In others, the board could have next to no possible matches and still never award a No More Moves bonus. Items can show up to either player and change the tides of battle.
** Most of the unique mission modes are luck-based. The only exception is the one that asks you to clear ten increasingly large stacks in a single chain each, which just requires a quick brain.

* BribingYourWayToVictory: Players can use real money to purchase three kinds of defensive items to counter the special ones that appear during gameplay, Power Bottles for credits and Platinum Medals for unlocking collectibles.

* ContinuingIsPainful: CPU battles and certain objectives let you continue after failure in exchange for a Power Bottle.

** The drunke

* InterfaceSpoiler: While clearing the missions from the Bingo and Jungle Adventure events, you'll notice the game actually calculates things like post time limit points and who wins the match instantly behind the scenes as the mission clear pop-up will appear before the correspondenting result is shown by the interface.

** The drunken Boss status makes Curator tiles appear on the board. They're worth no points or combos and stay for the rest of the damn turn.
* TimedMission:
** Each battle lasts for up to 5 turns that take 30 seconds each.
** Several events have short time limits or give special rewards to the first thousand winners.
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* TimedMission: Each battle lasts for up to 5 turns that take 30 seconds each.

* StandardStatusEffects: Two of them. You can only counter one with limited-use items.

* AchievementMockery: The game keeps track of how many times a in row you have lost.

** The No More Moves bonus boosts both attack and defense by 30, but it rarely compensates for the worthless board that let it happen. Plus, if it happens after the turn ends it doesn't count!

** Getting doused with paint [[InterfaceScrew turns all blocks monochrome]].
** The drunken Boss status makes Curator tiles appear on the board. They're worth no points or combos.

* AntiPoopSocking: There is a limit on how much you can play in a single sitting, and different gameplay modes have different costs. As to be expected, you can buy credits with real money.

* SeriesMascot: The Zoo's Boss appears everywhere in the game. His son, who is the titular zookeeper, [[DemotedToExtra less so]].

''Zookeeper Battle'' is the competitive online version of the MatchThreeGame series. It is available for Facebook, iOS and Android devices since 2012. Players face each other in 30-second puzzling turns, matching as many animal trios as possible to rack up attack and defense points. Once a turn ends, their stats are compared, and whoever's defense is reduced to zero will start taking damage. This goes on until either player is defeated.

* SomeDexterityRequired: High-level play requires eagle-like eyes to keep a chain going, especially if you want to consciously influence your stats.