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Monkey Beach

Treasures from inside the island

The little pirates want to salvage their treasures before the volcano erupts, but they have forgotten the exact hiding places and need to find the treasures again. need to find them first. Twelve treasures in six different shapes are put into the island bag through the volcano. Twelve green tiles for three exits – beach, jungle and waterfall – are shuffled together with four volcano tiles and stacked face-down, as are twelve blue treasure tiles.

If you are the active player, you turn over one blue tile for a treasure and one green tile for an island exit; if you turned up a volcano tile instead of an exit tile, you set the volcano tile aside and turn up another green exit tile.

Then you try to locate the treasure with the actual shape by feeling with your hands along the outside of the bag and then shunt it along, again from the outside without putting a hand inside the bag, and push the treasure out at the indicated exit. If you manage this and you have found the correct treasure, you take tile and treasure. IF you found the wrong treasure – shape or image are wrong – you put it back into the island bag and both tiles are returned beneath their respective stacks.

When all twelve treasure have been found or when the fourth volcano part is revealed, the game ends and you win with most treasures.

Monkey Beach is a visual and tactile pleasure and also a wonderful idea for a game. Feeling for shapes in a bag is a well-known mechanism, but not from the outside! Together with the treasure story and the design of bag and treasures the game is a thrilling experience as well as an excellent training for motor skills and spatial thinking.

Players: 2-4

Age: 3-7

Time: 15+

Designer: Forrest-Pruzan Creative

Artist: Forrest-Pruzan Creative

Price: ca. 34 Euro

Publisher: Ravensburger 2016

Web: www.ravensburger.de

Genre: Motor skills, tactile sensing

Users: For children

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Beautiful components

Simple rules

Good training for motor skills and 3D-thinking

Compares to:

Blinde Kuh, Ramba Zamba and other tactile games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 3