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MonStars

spooky show of unique monsters

Spooky monsters are milling about backstage! Their purpose?  To present their unique personal style on occasion of the annual MonStar Show in their appearance on the runway to become favorites of the jury. 45 monsters enter the show; which of them will be among the first ten declared jury’s favorites?

Each of the 45 monsters is depicted on a card, all the cards are shuffled and stacked. Each player has a set of cards, comprising 6 colored bodies and 36 transparent cards for eyes, mouths, legs, horns, arms and accessories which he takes up in hand, sorted by body parts. You can also lay them out sorted on the table, if you cannot hold that many cards.

One monster card is revealed. All play simultaneously and try to construct this monster with cards from their hand; the complete monster is always made up from six cards - body card and five cards for eyes, mouth, legs and arms or accessory, the star marking must always be in the bottom right-hand corner of the card.

When you are done, you call „MonStar“. If you did construct the correct monster, you receive the card; if you made a mistake, the card is put back face-down under the stack of monster cards. You win, if you are first to collect ten monster cards.

In a variant, the current monster card is turned back over again after a span of 10 seconds to memorize the monster and you must construct the monster from memory.

Combining body parts is a standard game mechanism, from MixMax to Vaca Loca; in this game, the mechanism is especially attractive due to the transparent cards and provides monstrous fun for children and families.

Players: 2-4

Age: 6+

Time: 35+

Designer: Jonathan Larkin

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Piatnik 2016

Web: www.piatnik.com

Genre: Placement, memo

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: cz de en fr hu it pl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Standard core mechanism

Very attractively varied by topic and transparent cards

Quickly explained and quickly played

Children can play on their own

Compares to:

All games about combining body parts, from Monstopia to MixMax or Vaca Loca

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 2

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 2

Action (dark green): 2