FOR CHILDREN

Grimaffen

Clap your hands, show your teeth

Alter                     5

Spezial                 

The monkey gang in the zoo monkeys about! Players embody the funny little monkeys and try to imitate sounds and gestures and funny faces as exactly as possible and in the correct order. The image discs are sorted according to their backside colour and stacked face down.

If you are the last one to have eaten a banana, you begin: You roll the die and turn over the top disc from the stack in the colour shown on the die. If you roll a banana you may choose a disc. Disc colours correspond to different kinds of monkey business: Monkey around with your hands, make the noise, pull monkey faces, make the animal sound or monkey about with your arms. Now you mimic the monkey business on the disc you turned over. When you have finished, you turn the disc face-down again. All other players in their turn roll the die and turn up a corresponding disc. If a stack is finished, choose any other stack. You add the new disc face-up to the row of others and must now mimic all the monkey business on all face-down tiles in correct order. If you manage all monkey business correctly you turn the open-faced tile back over and pass the turn to the next player. If you make a mistake you are out of the game! The next player continues with the tile you turned over! The last player still in play wins the game and is crowned Monkey King.

Grimaffen is a nice fast game. The monkey faces are fun to make, the images on the discs are self-explaining and the correct mimicking is easily checked by the other players. Motor skills, observation and memory are the skills trained in this game within the Clever maker learning game series.

Spieler         : 2-6

Alter            : ages 5 and up

Dauer           : ca. 20 min

Autor           : Reiner Knizia

Grafik          : Dynamo

Preis            : ca. 13,00 Euro

Verlag          : Selecta 2010

www.selecta-spielzeug.de

Zielgruppe             : For Children

Genre                    : Memory and mimicking

Mechanismen         : perform mimicking tasks in order

Zufall                            1

Taktik                 

Strategie__                  

Kreativität          

Wissen_

Gedächtnis          3

Kommunikation

Interaktion

Geschicklichkeit  2

Action                  2

Kommentar:

Simple mechanisms

Pretty, self-explaining motives

Series Clevermacher Lernspiele

Multilingual rules

Compares to:

Grimassimix

My rating: 5