The land of Fruit Island, as the name implies, is ripe with delicious fruit: bananas, pomegranates, and mangoes. On this island lives a tribe of monkeys. Over the years, they have built a thriving fruit industry, gathering fruit from the surrounding jungle and delivering it to the trading post for maximum profit. However, all is not well. Living on the island as well is a giant gorilla and, wouldn’t you know it, he also has a penchant for fruit. But, this gorilla prefers to let others do the hard work, using his size to bully, and steal from, the hard-working monkeys.

In Fruit Island, the players take on the role of the monkeys, working to gather fruit and deliver it to the trading post before they’re caught out by the gorilla and have their fruit stolen from them. Fruit Island is a press-your-luck, mess-with-your-opponents game. Equal parts prayer and risk assessment, it’ll have you asking yourself just how long you think you can hold out before making a beeline for safety.

Which monkey will be the most successful? Only time will tell.

How It’s Played

At the start of a game of Fruit Island, each player chooses a monkey and places it onto the trading post in the middle of the game board. The gorilla is placed on the…

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