Boardgame unboxing: Attack of the Jelly Monster



Attack of the Jelly Monster comes in a fairly small box, approximately the size of a codenames box along its longer side. The game itself is on the somewhat cheaper side so you don’t really expect a full size box. Let’s see what you get inside!



When opening the box you see a humble amount of components, what you get are: a stack of punch-out boards, a package of cardboard cut-out’s, a polybag with a 5 set’s of player dice, a polybag with a set of “sliders”, a hourglass and two additional polybags.



The dice are typical six sided player dice 7 of them in each of 5 different colors, since this game is based on rolling dice I would have expect them to be a bit more rounded, we will see how they roll.

Punching out this pieces what you immediately notice is the thinness of the cardboard, At least the pieces that represent the map could have been made from thicker material. When everything is punched out what you get are 11 map tiles, a turn counter and two types of tokens. What kind off annoyed me is that not only is the cardboard thin, but the map puzzle pieces seem to match very tightly and are not “symmetrical”. What I mean by this is that you would imagine a circular puzzle piece to fit when rotated since there is no obvious sign that it would not fit… well it doesn’t  and barely so. What you need to do to put it in correctly is look at the artwork (and specifically the different colored tubes running through the map).




Putting it back in the box what you get is your basic “mess with polybags” nothing fancy.

All in all I am not really pleased with the production value, even looking at a “cheap” game the components should have been a bit more solid. What I do like is the fact that you have circular modular map depending on the players (even though not perfectly made), but this kind off already starts to enter the review of the game itself… Ah well it is how it is.

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