Presentation

Grimaffen

Arm over your head, show your teeth

In the Zoo, the monkey gang 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 color and stacked face down; the colors also tell you which sort of monkeying about to expect.

Whoever ate a banana most recently, begins: You roll the die and turn up the top disc from the corresponding color stack. For a banana, choose any disc. Colors correspond to monkey business categories: Yellow - hand gestures; orange - make the noise, red - pull monkey faces, green - make the animal sound or blue - arm gestures. You mimic the monkey business on the disc you turned over and then turn it back over again. All other players in their turn roll the die and turn up a corresponding disc. You add the new disc face-up to the row of other discs already laid out and must now mimic all the monkey business on all face-down tiles in correct order, before you do the new one. 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.

In this new edition - the game was originally published by Selecta - Grimaffen is still a cute, fun game. All the monkey business is fun, images are self-explaining, and the correct mimicking is easily checked by the other players. Motor skills, observation and memory are the skills trained, so you can learn by monkeying about.

Players: 2-6

Age: 4+

Time: 20+

Designer: Reiner Knizia

Artist: Anne Pätzke

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Pegasus Spiele 2017

Web: www.pegasus.de

Genre: Memo, mimicking

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

New edition

First edition 2010, Selecta

Lots of fun

Good training for motor skills and memory

Compares to:

Grimaffen, Selecta; Grimassimix

Other editions:

Pegasus (en)

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 3

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 2

Action (dark green): 2