Guests and money - Player Guide

🚶 Guests

Guests come in at the entrance, walk your paths, look at animals, visit buildings and go home. The more animals, buildings and enclosures you have, the more guests come. Every guest pays a ticket to get in.

Guests get hungry and tired. Food stands feed them. Benches, picnic tables and blankets let them rest for free, and they pay to rest in a gazebo, pavilion, cafeteria or restroom.
Little icons over their heads show how they feel. Hungry, tired or bored guests go home early.
Your zoo can be open or closed. A closed zoo lets no new guests in. Switch it at the top of Zoo Management.
Billboards bring guests sooner (up to 3 help).

💰 Making money

🎟 Tickets

Each guest pays $50 to $150 to get in: the happier your guests, the more they pay. Greenhouses and research raise it more.

🦁 Enclosures and buildings

Animals earn money all the time, and rare, exciting animals earn the most. Buildings earn from the guests who visit. Press the money signs, or Collect All, to collect it.

Money keeps piling up while you're away, for up to 24 hours. Come back and collect it.
Missions, levels, the daily gift and special visitors all give money too.
The Guests branch of research earns more from tickets, shops and missions, and ends in Double Income.

😀 Happy guests

Zoo Management shows your park rating (up to five stars) and how happy your guests are. Guests lose a little fun every second and get it back from:

Seeing animals, especially exciting ones.
Scenery next to the paths: plants, statues, fountains and toys. Scenery
Fun buildings like the arcade, concert and theatre.
Entertainers: jugglers, mascots and balloon sellers. Staff
Greenhouses: guests stay happy longer in a green park.

🧹 A clean zoo

Guests drop litter on the paths, and grass grows long. A little mess is fine: the first 10 messy tiles are free. After that, each one cuts your income by 1%, down to half. Zoo Management shows how clean your zoo is.

Put trash cans along busy paths. Paths near them rarely get dirty.
Press Clean Paths or Mow Lawn (they pop up at the top right when needed, and are in Zoo Management) to play a quick cleaning game.
Hire janitors and groundskeepers to clean for you, even while you're away. Staff and cleaning
Rain washes dirty paths clean.

🌙 Day, night and weather

A whole day in your zoo lasts 24 minutes. The clock and the weather show at the top right.

Night: evenings get dark and fewer guests come, unless lamps and street lights light the way. 6 lamps keep them coming like in the day.

Rain: keeps some guests at home, but washes your dirty paths clean.

Sunny or cloudy: the weather changes every few hours of game time.

⭐ Special visitors

Every few minutes someone special comes to your zoo, with a gold star over their head. Tap them to see their wish. Build what they want before they leave (about 2½ minutes) and they write a good review: money, experience and extra guests who heard about it.

Visitor	Wish	Tip
Food Critic	Wants to taste 3 kinds of food.	Build a burger, pizza or donut shop, or a cafeteria.
Garden Club Judge	Wants to see 12 trees and flowers.	Trees, flower beds and hedges are on the Plants page of the Scenery menu.
Nature Photographer	Wants to photograph 5 kinds of animals.	Buy new kinds of animals.
School Teacher	Brought a class who want 3 playground toys.	Toys and balls are in the Scenery menu.
Art Critic	Wants to admire 2 statues or fountains.	Statues and fountains are on the Decor page of the Scenery menu.
Animal Welfare Inspector	Wants an enclosure with 3 enrichment items.	Put plants, rocks or toys inside one enclosure.
Grandparents	Need 5 places to sit down.	Benches, picnic tables and blankets, or a gazebo, pavilion or cafeteria.
Marine Biologist	Wants to study 4 kinds of fish.	Put different fish in your aquariums.
Farmer	Wants to meet 4 kinds of farm animals.	Put different animals in your farms.
Botanist	Wants to see 4 kinds of plants growing.	Grow different plants in your greenhouses.
Birdwatcher	Wants to spot 3 kinds of birds.	Toucans, ostriches, the white and orange birds and chickens are all birds.
Young Dinosaur Fan	Has always wanted to see a real dinosaur.	Dinosaurs are on the Legendary page of the Animals menu.
Health Inspector	Wants clean paths and a mowed lawn.	Clean up, or hire a janitor and a groundskeeper.
TV Crew	Wants to film a busy zoo with 25 guests.	More animals, food and fun bring more guests.

Some visitors only come once you have what they're looking for, like an aquarium for the Marine Biologist.