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Banana Jump

Baboon CHallenge

Baboon the monkey challenges the other animals: He believes he can travel around the clearing, from tree to tree, faster than the animals can line up in the clearing; he even wants to eat a banana on each tree before moving on. Players represent the animals and try to line them up in the clearing and to hinder baboon to be back at the starting position before the animals are assembled.

Each player is handed five animals of one kind. In your turn you roll both color dice and for a color you may place any of the 25 animals in the game, but only on spots of the same color and into the row of this animal. If you roll the banana you can place any animal or put Baboon back one step. The rows of the animals must be filled from top to bottom. If you cannot place an animal or roll Baboon, you must advance Baboon one step.

If you place on of your own animals or complete a row or column you win a coin. If you complete a row with your own animal you you win 2 coins. Should you place the very last animal you get two coins, and if it should be your own you receive 3 coins. When all animals are placed you win with most coins. If Baboon reaches his starting spot before that, all players have jointly lost the game.

Baboon isn‘t a silly game at all, featuring monkey and bananas! The ice mechanisms that seems incapable of being influenced, which also asks for the placement of animals in pre-set order – allows a bit of tactics after all, due to the choice given by the banana result. This makes the game somewhat more interesting for older players, a children’s’ game suitable for families, too.

Players: 2-5

Age: 4+

Duration: 10+

Designer: Max Gerchambeau

Artist: Jürgen van Straelen

Price: ca. 21 Euro

Publisher: Winning Moves

Web: www.winning-moves.de

Genre: Dice Game

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de fr

In-game text: no

Comments:

Nice components * interesting mechanism for children * some tactics due to choice offered by the banana die result

Compares to :

Elefantenparade for placing animals with dice

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance: 3

Tactic: 1

Strategy: 0

Creativity: 0

Knowledge: 0

Memory: 0

Communication: 0

Interaction: 2

Dexterity: 0

Action: 0