Game Info
Year
2024
Players
2-4
Age
6+
Playtime
20 min
Complexity
0/5
Collection
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Description
A press your luck game where monkeys gather fruit on an island while avoiding a gorilla that disrupts plans
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Light rules with surprising strategic depth
- Fun game that plays pretty much all ages
- A lot of choices and decisions to be made
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Collecting fruit from trees
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Bag Building/Token Draw — Drawing tokens from a bag to determine actions, often involving the gorilla's movement or fruit availability.
- Movement — Moving your monkey one, two, or three spaces on the board.
- Push Your Luck — Deciding whether to collect more fruit or bank the fruit you currently have before the gorilla reaches your spot.
- set collection — Collecting fruit from trees and banking it at the trading post to score points.
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Quotes (from this video)
- I usually love all of his games and this one is no exception.
- The rule set is light, but the more you play it, the more you realize the depth of strategy that there is.
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