Just wanted to share about the Cranium Zooreka
Every player gets a chance to play on every turn. With each turn each player guesses what the roll of the die will be: food, animal or shelter. If you guess correctly you get the matching card. Once you collect the correct number of food, animal and shelter cards you can trade them in for a habitat pie wedge to "build your zoo". I think studying and choosing the wedges was the most exciting to the kids. They even debated together if it was right to get another "water-related" animal because one of them already had an ocean type wedge in their zoo.
The game actually progresses along pretty well -- everyone gets a chance to win a card on every player's turn and if you collect too many food cards but still need a shelter card, no worries. You will get a chance to trade extra cards for the ones you need.
Now I will have to admit that things probably went even easier because we hadn't fully read the directions and would go in whichever direction was the better choice (because those were the rules in the game we had played earlier). If we had only gone in the one direction we would have been stopped occasionally more often by a "stormy weather" card. These cards usually have a penalty of losing one of your cards such as a food card.
I would recommend this as a fun family game -- especially if you have zoo/animal fans. Age recommendations on the game are 8-adult.
