Board Game - Find the Monster

The board game «Find the Monster» is a fun attention game for the whole family: look for the monster and grab it quickly!

The goal of the game:
Find and «catch» the necessary monster.

Lay out the game board in the center of the table. Thoroughly shuffle the deck of monster cards and place it next to the game board face down. Each player takes one token. The youngest player goes first, then turns clockwise.

On their turn, the player rolls the dice and places face down as many cards from the deck in the center of the board as the number rolled. The player then flips these cards face up as quickly as possible in turn. In one move, the player can flip a number of cards that is one less than the number of participants. So if there are four participants, three cards are flipped. Accordingly, if there are two participants, only one card is flipped. As soon as the players see the faces of the cards, they start looking for monsters on the game board that exactly match the images on the cards. If a player finds the necessary monster on the game board, they cover it with their token and place the card with the image of that monster face down in front of themselves.

Attention! A player who has already found a monster cannot continue looking and must wait for all other players to pick up the revealed cards. When all the revealed cards from the board are picked up, players with a closed card in front of them put it back in the center of the board face up.

All players together check whether the images of the monsters on the board match exactly with the images on the game cards. If all the monsters are covered with tokens correctly, each player who has «caught» a monster takes the card with its image for themselves. The cards with «caught» monsters are placed face up in front of the player. If the image on the card does not match the game board, then the monster has «escaped», and the card with it goes to the discard pile.

If closed cards remain on the game board after the first check, the game continues, and cards are flipped again similar to the beginning of the game (one less than the number of players). Thus, in one turn, cards can be flipped and checked up to six times (provided there are two players), and each player can catch several monsters.

The turn continues until all monsters from the cards in the center of the board are found. After there are no closed cards left on the board, the turn passes to the next player.

The game ends when there are no cards left in the deck. After this, scoring takes place. The player who has «caught» the most monsters wins.

The board game develops:
- attention
- logic
- social communication skills

Material: plastic + cardboard.

Game contents:
- game board
- 40 monster cards
- 4 tokens and a die

Game duration: from 20 minutes
Number of players: from 2 to 4