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Monster Meister

There can be only one!

Memorize monsters to get rid of them! The game features 64 monster cards in four sets of 16 cards with identical backsides, eight Strays cards and 12 task cards. You take a monster set, shuffle it and hand it to your left neighbor without looking at it, who arranges them in 1 4x4 grid, face-down and without looking at them. Strays are stacked and one of ten task cards used for a game is revealed.

Now all reveal monster cards in their grid until the task is completed - for instance, one double monster appears - and count their score from eyes and colors. Who has most points is monster memorizer of the round and puts an open card from his display underneath the strays. Whoever has fewest points is monster catcher and draws a card with a backside different from his own from the strays deck; if this is not possible for all monster catchers, no one gets a card in this round. The card you drew is added to your display horizontally or vertically. Then all cards in the displays are turned over again and a new task is revealed.

When ten tasks have been played you win if you have fewest monsters of your own backside color in your display. When the task „competition of monster tamers“ is revealed, the active player names a color or a number of eyes. You are out of the round if you cannot meet that demand; the first one to go out is monster catcher of the round. This is then repeated until only one player remains in play, he is monster memorizer of the round.

A tricky little memo game on monster colors and number of monster eyes; both traits provide points and demand excellent memory and tactics in deciding between many or few points, if possible.

Players: 2-4

Age: 7+

Time: 15+

Designer: Maja and Amelie Dorn

Artist: Angela Kommoß

Price: ca. 8 Euro

Publisher: Zoch Verlag 2018

Web: www.zoch-verlag.com

Genre: Memo

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Cute, good monster drawings

Needs excellent memo capability

Tactic in making many of few points

Compares to:

Memo games in general

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 3

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0