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(More customer reviews)I'll leave out all of the possible bad puns. The theme is each player plays a monkey, trying to free other lab monkeys from the lab building. You move around several rooms, collecting objects to help unlock cages and free the other monkeys. You get points, which vary in quantity, depending on how hard it is to unlock the cage. See another monkey carrying something useful to them or to you? You might be able to attack them, monkey style, make them drop it, and move them to a far-away room. Or play a card that allows you to steal the item. This is fun when the other player is near to their goal. You also have to contend with a bumbling security guard named Murray. He moves around when a guard card is played, and he slows you down as you spend time hiding in a room if he is there.
There is a board consisting of 4 double sides pieces, which can be arranged at random to create a few different floor designs. Rooms have doorways that you must move through to get to other rooms. There are tokens for cages, placed randomly in rooms at the beginning, which have to be revealed as a game action. Then the requirements to unlock it are known to all, and the race is on to acquire the right objects. Object tokens are also placed randomly, face-up, in the rooms before the game. You also get a deck of cards, which allow such actions as extra moves, stealing, moving objects between rooms, and moving the guard to any room. Each turn you get to use a maximum of 3 actions, from a choice of 6, in any order and frequency you like. There is a handy reference card for each player. You also get some rubber/plastic monkeys and a guard figure.
I received this game as a gift and thought it looked pretty silly, but it is great. Strategy and planning are required, as you try to get the most valuable cages opened before anyone else. You will have to use your human brain, but you also get to reach back to your primitive side and resort to monkey violence when strategy isn't working. I've played with only 2 players so far, and it is just fine that way. I'm sure that 3 or 4 would be even better. If you don't enjoy interactive confrontational games, avoid the monkey games. Monkeys don't play well together. Gaining a victory in a peaceful manner is admirable. Winning by being sneaky and using brute force is fun. Do you want to be admired, or have fun? We're talking monkeys here. What do you think the answer is?
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Monkey Lab is a strategic fast and cunning game for the primate in all of us. Roam the halls of a testing facility prying cracking and smashing open cages of lab monkeys while you dodge the guard. Use teamwork guile and strategy to save your fellow simians from the Monkey Lab! Rescue the most to be the victor in this game of monkey mayhem!
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