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Code Monkey Island

Players

2-4

Time

?-?

Age

6+

Weight

1.33

Rating

5.54

Fit

Teach 2.4

Teaching signal

Replay 4.0

High replayability

Interaction 3.8

Highly interactive

Scaling 4.0

Scales well

Strategy 4.5

Deep strategy

Control 2.8

Luck-sensitive

Table feel

Moderately interactive game with a good balance of direct and strategic confrontation. Players need to pay attention to others' actions frequently, but cooperation is not a major focus.

Replay value

Code Monkey Island has a high variability gameboard and expansions available, providing fresh experiences each time. It offers deep strategic possibilities and adapts well to different player counts. While it may not be the easiest game to learn, it offers enough depth to keep players engaged. Overall, it has a strong replayability score of 7.9.

Luck profile

The final luck score for Code Monkey Island is 5.67, indicating a balanced mix of luck and strategy. Random elements have a notable but not exclusive impact on the game outcome, and players have some ability to mitigate randomness through strategic decisions and planning. The game outcome is primarily determined by player strategy and decisions, with luck playing a moderate role.

Overview

Code Monkey Island is a family-friendly board game that introduces kids ages 8 and up to programming concepts used by real programmers. Code Monkey Island is a board game designed for families. It takes about a minute to learn the rules and 45 minutes to play, and exposes kids to fundamental programming concepts like control structures, data structures, Boolean logic and operators, and assignment and mathematical operations. Step 1: Each player chooses their favorite tribe of monkeys, and sets them down in the corresponding Start Circle. Step 2: Everyone is dealt 3 Rule cards. Step 3: On their turn, a player draws 1 Rule card, and plays another card from their hand to move their monkeys forward. Step 4: The first player to get all 3 of their monkeys around the island and into the banana grove wins!

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Credits

Designers

1
Raj Sidhu

Publishers

2
(Self-Published) Code Monkey Planet

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