2007 · Animals

Cheeky Monkey

Players draw animal chips from a bag, pushing their luck to collect sets without drawing a duplicate during the same turn. On a turn, a player may continue drawing or stop and stack the drawn chips onto their existing collection; drawing a repeat animal from that turn causes the drawn chips to be returned to the bag and the turn ends. Drawing an animal that matches the top of an opponent’s stack lets the drawer steal that chip and add it to the current haul, and drawing a monkey allows either keeping it or swapping it with an opponent’s top chip. When the last chip is played, majority control of each animal type scores bonus points; highest total wins.

groupPlayers

2–6 best 4

schedulePlaying time

15 min

cakeAge

7+

psychologyComplexity

1.1 / 5