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Grease Monkey Garage

Players

2-4

Time

30-40

Age

8+

Weight

2

Rating

7.30

Fit

Teach 2.3

Teaching signal

Replay 3.9

High replayability

Interaction 3.8

Highly interactive

Scaling 4.0

Scales well

Strategy 4.5

Deep strategy

Control 3.0

Luck-sensitive

Table feel

Moderate interaction with a good balance between direct and strategic confrontation. Players need to pay attention to others' actions frequently, but cooperation is not a major focus in the game.

Replay value

Grease Monkey Garage has a high replayability score due to its high variability gameboard, impactful expansions, deep strategic possibilities, and adaptability to different player counts. The game offers fresh experiences each time it is played and allows players to discover new tactics and strategies. While the easiness to learn score is relatively low, the game's depth compensates for it, making it a rewarding and engaging experience.

Luck profile

Grease Monkey Garage has a moderate level of luck. Random elements have a notable but not exclusive impact on the game outcome. While there is some room for players to influence or mitigate the effects of randomness through strategic decisions, luck still plays a significant role. The game outcome is a balanced mix of luck and strategy, with neither element dominating. Players need to consider both luck and strategy to succeed in Grease Monkey Garage.

Overview

In Grease Monkey Garage, you are shift managers in a busy auto repair shop trying to fix your customer’s cars as fast as possible. Sound like something you can handle? Beware of the challenging thematic events that will slightly alter the rules for each round and might throw you off course. Take shifts, managing limited resources, while trying to gain a better reputation than your competitors. Grease Monkey Garage is a family-friendly shared worker placement game. Move your Specialists and the commonly shared workers between the locations to gain vehicles for repair, new resources or to trade parts required to fix the cars. Once you have fixed a car, return it to the happy customer and gain victory points. Each round a new Event Card will be revealed, altering the game rules with positive effects or penalties to cope with. Adjust your strategy accordingly and become the manager with the best reputation after returning 6 cars to customers. A secret bonus card will reward you with extra points for a specific type and color of cars fixed. Key Features of Grease Monkey Garage: beautifully designed components with retro charm manage shared workers on a modular board hire Specialists only you can control manage the shop's limited resources counter other players and manage unforeseen events

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Credits

Designers

1
Fedor Sosnin

Artists

1
Fedor Sosnin

Publishers

1
Board Game Circus

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