Spin Master Games Kids Game Barrel of Monkeys Retro

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Kids love this game.

You can't go wrong with this classic. The barrel and the monkeys are well-made and provide plenty of entertainment. It’s a simple, nostalgic game that is still just as fun today as it was years ago.

I mean, it’s a bright yellow barrel of bright red monkeys. How can you go wrong?! The grands love playing with these! Pieces are easy to grasp for little hands, great to teach strategy, coordination and fine motor skills. Requires no batteries, makes no noise, doesn’t have questionable characters or hints of violence, no tie to social media, no screen time, just old fashioned use your imagination fun. Convenience of scooping them all back into the barrel for storage added in makes this a super inexpensive toy the grands have played with over and over and over. And it’s nice to see them having fun with something I had when I was little (which tells you just how long this game has been around- timeless).

This Barrel of Monkeys Dropple game from Spin Master is fun, easy to play game that kids of all ages will like. It can be played by 2-4 players and is actually two games in one; 1) A traditional Barrel of Monkeys game where you try to link as many monkeys together by their arms to see who can form the longest chain, and 2) A Dropple Game where players take turns removing sticks from the barrel based on the color shown when they roll the dice and the person with the least amount of monkeys wins. The package contains the barrel, a base, a lid, 23 red monkeys, 1 gold monkey, 30 colored sticks, 1 die and the game play instructions. The barrel arrives in two separate halves and needs to be put together by pressing the pins from one half into the holes in the other half. The barrel is then screwed into the base with a 1/4 turn. The lid has a brain like design and covers the barrel so players can't peek inside to see how the monkeys or sticks are arranged when playing Dropple. I played several rounds of the Dropple version of the game with my grand daughters (4 & 7) and we had a lot of fun, but adding the sticks to the barrel took almost as long to do as playing the actual game. There were always some extra holes that didn't get used and we had to put some of the sticks in on an angle which was a little tedious, so they left that part of the game up to me. The Dropple version of the game is fun to play and a great way to pass a few hours when the kids are stuck inside because of the weather, but the set up may be a little frustrating for younger children, so I'm giving this a highly recommended and 4.5 out of 5 stars.