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Dschungelbande

Slide in Monkey, find and count elephants

Animals are partying along the river and hide under bridges and planks; players need to find as many animals as possible on their way to the Jungle Toad King in order to advance quickly and to be first to reach him.

The game features 30 square animal tiles, each of them showing one of five different animals – 6x Elephant, 6x Tiger, 6x Toucan, 6x Anteater and 6x Monkey – and also five discs showing one of those animals. The square tiles are shuffled face-down and stacked; at the start of the game eight tiles are placed in pairs at the four river beds, revealed and slid into the rivers so that one animal is hidden under the rope bridge and the other is visible in the water hole.

The active player rolls the die – if the result is the snake, you put back the pawn in the lead by one step, albeit only if at least one pawn has passed the seventh case; otherwise, you simply you roll again. For another animal as a result you search for this animal: you reveal an animal from the stack and slide it into a river of your choice; then you count all visible animals of the kind you rolled and advance your pawn accordingly. I you start or/and end your move on a bridge or plank or waterfall next to a tile showing your animal friend, you can take an extra step. Animals that are slid off the board at the waterfall are put underneath one of the stacks.

Dschungelbande offers a very attractive memo version in a very nice combination with a roll & move game; the determining of the number of steps via the memo mechanism is very well implemented and pure fun! I am sure there is another tiger under this rope bridge!

Players: 2-4

Age: 5+

Time: 20+

Designer: Stefan Dorra, Manfred Reindl

Artist: Katja Witt, Andreas Besser, Andreas Resch

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: Kosmos 2016

Web: www.kosmos.de

Genre: Slide, memorize, find

Users: For children

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very nice combination of mechanisms

Very pretty design

Easily explained

Trains motor skills, too

Compares to:

Sliding games with memo/hide/find mechanism

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Tactic (turquoise): 1

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Memory (orange): 2

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

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