A giant gelatinous alien is attacking our town! And I guess we have to defend it by collecting samples of the creature? 😊 Attack of the Jelly Monster is 3-5 player game where each of the players tries to collect as much jelly as he can by throwing dice. Main mechanics of the game are dice rolling and worker placement, but all of this is happening simultaneously with all players in real time!!! The game is played in four rounds. In each round all players simultaneously repeat rolling all of their (remaining) dice and then either placing or not placing a die to a district. When placing a die you may immediately resolve its effect (discarding any die in district to center or move a slider one space). After any one player places his last die he may flip the hourglass and/or lock a district. When the hourglass runs out the round ends and the scoring happens. Multiples of the same color on same district are ignored, then you compare dice totals for each district and playe...
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 tok...
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