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Banana Matcho

A squeaky game!

High up in the wonder tree bananas taste their best, but Head Monkey Banana Matcho wants to climb all by himself and alone, but you cannot allow this and therefore you start yourself with your monkey at the base of the tree and become the active monkey by picking up the six fruit dice. Your left neighbor takes the 3 Matcho dice. Now both players roll their dice simultaneously and as fast as they can, but with different aims: You as the active climbing monkey want to achieve a high-value fruit combination faster than the Matcho player achieves three symbols for Banana Matcho. For a fruit combination you can roll any number of fruit dice any number of times, can set aside any number and re-roll and number of dice. The “roller” for Banana Matcho can achieve his symbols one by one; he need not achieve them in one roll as a triplet. If you are first to achieve your goal you heat the squeaking banana and move your monkey upwards.  The monkey of the fruit combination player moves according to the table depending on the fruit combination he achieved, between 2 and 12 steps; the monkey of the Matcho player always only moves one step upward. If you are first to reach the top of the wonder tree with your monkey, you win!

A game of chance, pure and simple, and yet there is a teeny weenie bit of tactic, as you can decide, despite having achieved a valid combination, if you want to keep rolling or are content with fewer steps in order to hit the banana first and move at all. And it is fun to quickly decide if you rather set aside three pineapples or hope for 6 different fruit, always with an eye on the Matcho player!

Players: 2-6

Age: 6+

Time: 20+

Designer: Thilo Hutzler

Art: Lilli Messina

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Zoch 2012

Web: www.zoch-verlag.com

Genre: Dice and reaction game

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Pure dice game

Some tactic in decisions on dice results

Pretty components

Compares to:

All dice game with stop-or-continue mechanism

Other editions:

Currently none

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