Bubble Jungle (2017)

About this game

How skillful of an elephant can you prove yourself to be? Can you pick up only what you're instructed — and more importantly, can you do it faster than anyone else? In Bubble Jungle, a.k.a. Tricky Trunks, each player has a plastic elephant device that includes a long tube through which the player can pick up colored balls that are mixed in a box at the start of play. The game includes 48 balls, eight each in six colors. At the start of a round, a challenge card is revealed, showing that players need to pick up all balls of the color facing them, or a specific number of balls in specific colors, or any eleven balls (thereby filling their trunk). Whoever completes the challenge first — hitting the target exactly with nothing extra — claims the challenge card, and whoever first collects ten challenge cards wins!

Does it fit your group?

• Group size. Works with 2 to 4.
• Rules load. At 1.0/5 this is a light game — explain it in a few minutes, good for a table that has not played much.
• Age. The publisher suggests 5 and up. That rates the rules rather than the artwork, so judge the box yourself for younger players.