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The Quest for Eldorado

An interesting tile based game with deck building mechanics that is variable by the desire of the players. The setup for the maps have either a predetermined combination suggested by the creators according to desired difficulty or may be constructed according to the whims of the players. Each player is an explorer trying to get to the goal of El Dorado through a jungle using cards in their basic hand. Through the game players can purchase cards added to their deck in order to overcome the difficult terrain as fast as possible. There is some risk evaluation as to what cards will be drawn in comparison to the terrain ahead. Overall its a good game

Poo

Oh Poo! A glorious game where all the players are monkeys in the same primate pavillion where there seems to be something not quite right with the monkey chow that night. Well, what’s a monkey to do, when one’s guts get to rumbling, but the inevitable of throwing poo!

Great times are had with the feces flinging fun as you can proceed with all the shit talk you you normally hold back from polite company. Its really a cathartic experience akin to an intellectual enema sure to clear your mind of unwanted accumulation of negative thoughts/feelings.

Its simple as you and your opponents try and land the most monkey muck on each other to 15 points of poo. At that point a player is eliminated, though there are rules for the special “Golden Banana” that can revive eliminated players back to half poo. As most people/monkeys, outside of niche subsets of select groups of individuals, don’t like getting covered in poo there are cards to dodge/clean/cordially manuever other players into the flight path of incoming excrement to avoid being hit.

It is a great game to have introduced to coworkers in the past during slow points during a shift and introduce the phrase “Take it like a monkey!!!”.

Nuts

This is a game best played in comfort as the whole premise is snatching the nuts of others and protecting your own from their greedy paws. You and all other players are squirrels. This is a sad fact of life for you. The game only gets worse as, just as in regular human life, the one who has the greatest nuts is the winner. It cannot be helped as it is the cruelty of the natural world. Numerous wildlife documentaries narrated by David Attenborough tell us so. The greatest values are placed on Pecan pie with the infamous Nut log below that. The nut log has nothing to do with the afore mentioned game “Poo” but one does wonder since both games came from the same designers initially. I can’t say anything else really about Nuts as I haven’t played for a very long time.