Item- no.: 22372
This lively
climbing game trains logical thinking and fine motor skills.
Age: 5+
Players: 2 to 4
Contents: 1
monkey tree
4 monkeys
1 dice with symbols
1 coconut
Game idea: Jens Rademaker
Illustrations: Jan
Lieffering
The most delicious coconuts grow high up in the tall monkey trees in the Bingo Bongo jungle. They taste so good that the monkeys just can’t get enough of them. That’s why so many of them are eaten every year.
Almost all
the coconuts have been devoured already. Only one is left and the monkeys are
trying to scamper up to the top of the tree as quickly as possible to get that
last one. This is not so easy because they pull each other down by the tail and
the branches break off.
Would you
like to help the monkeys?
Aim
of the Game:
Whose
monkey will be the first to get the coconut down from the tree?
Game
Preparation:
First,
the tree trunk is placed on the green board. Each player now chooses one side
of the tree, takes 6 branches and picks a monkey.
The
coconut is placed on top of the tree. The youngest player is handed the dice
and he starts first.
How to Play:
Depending
on which motif comes up when the dice is thrown, a lot of different actions are
possible.
Place a
branch.
Move
a monkey up one branch
Move
another player’s monkey down or take away another player’s branch.
Free
choice of one of the following: inserting a branch, moving a monkey up one
branch, moving another player’s monkey down or taking away another player’s
branch.
Special
features:
If
the symbol “insert a branch” comes up and if you have already put all
your own branches in the tree, you must insert one of the other
players’
branches.
If the
symbol “move a monkey up one branch” comes up on the dice but you have
not inserted any branch to enable your monkey to climb up higher, you must
place another player’s monkey up higher. You are not permitted to miss a go.
Only when
there is absolutely no way of doing the action shown on the dice (which can
happen precisely at the beginning of the game), may you throw the dice again.
To take the coconut from the sixth branch, the monkey must be placed higher
again.
The winner
is the one whose monkey gets the coconut!
Have a lot
of fun climbing up and down the tree!