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Casa Banana

Parrot can sit on elephant

The King of Monkeys has invited guests for a jungle party, but his new tree house is too small for all and begins to sway threateningly. The first player of the round rolls both dice - the number dice determines the number of support pillars underneath the treehouse platform; the symbol dice determines the shape of the platform - square, oblong, triangle, circle or ellipse. If you rolled the dice you assemble the tree house accordingly, the smiley on the symbol dice lets you choose any platform shape. Then you also feel for the first animal in the bag and draw one to place on the platform. Then in turn all other players feel for an animal in the bag and pull it out to place it on the platform; animals already on the platform cannot be pushed or relocated. Animals can be stacked, but never laid down. Each animal that you successfully place earns you a banana chip. When an animal tumbles off, the round ends. If you caused the fall, you must discard a banana chip and a new round begins. After three rounds you win with most banana chips.

Well, in a way all is well and all is known. Stacking animals is a classic feature of children games since “Tier auf Tier” and yet, there are are enough creative details there - for instance the rolling for the number of supports for the platform. Only one support really demands well-versed stackers. It has to be hoped, too, that the animals in the game were chosen mainly for their stacking capacities, because neither hare or cat nor cow seem jungle-qualified at first glance. But that is being catty now, all in all Casa Banana is a nice stacking game, exactly right for the intended age group.

Players: 2-4

Age: 4+

Time: 15+

Designer: Thilo Hutzler

Artist: Daniel Döbner

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Beleduc 2015

Web: www.beleduc.de

Genre: Stacking, dexterity

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: cn de en es fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Standard topic

Pretty components

Variants due to platform shape and number of supports

One-leg-only support seems a bit steep

Compares to:

All stacking games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 2