Juicy Fruits

Juicy Fruits

Board Game
1-4 Players
About 45 Minutes
Grade 4 and Up
Game Schooler Recommendation

Juicy Fruits from Capstone Games utilizes a slide puzzle as its core mechanism. By sliding baskets you collect fruit, which is sold to travelers. Juicy Fruits has a unique combination of spatial perception mixed with resource management that requires strategic thinking to succeed. These complex, intwerwoven skills are neatly packaged in a bright and easy to play game with chunky fruit pieces.

Game Overview

Each player has their own small island paradise where they grow delicious fruit. To win, you must gain the most points by cleverly supplying ships and by adding the best businesses to your island.
On your turn, you slide one of your fruit collector tokens a number of unblocked spaces and collect that many fruits of the token's type. Then you may either fulfill the order of a ship on your shores or claim a business from a shared display and place it onto your island (or do nothing). Clever planning and timing is vital because until you supply the ships on your shores, they block valuable island space which could be used to collect more fruit — but if you concentrate too much on the ships, the most promising businesses may get snatched by your opponents. Also, the sooner businesses are claimed, the quicker the game might end.

Skills
  • Logistics Logistics
    Allows players to manage production flow between the point of origin and consumption.
  • Spatial Perception Spatial Perception
    Strengthens a player’s understanding of the spatial relationships with the objects in their environment as well as themselves.
  • Strategic Thinking Strategic Thinking
    Encourages players to develop a process or long-term strategy for accomplishing a goal.
  • Resource Management Resource Management
    Boosts a player’s capacity to efficiently and effectively oversee available assets.
  • Time Management Time Management
    Improves a player’s ability to organize and plan how long they spend on specific activities.
Game Details
  • Type: Family Game
  • Category: Board Game
  • Designer(s): Christian Stöhr
  • Published: 2021
  • Game Length: About 45 Minutes
  • Players: 1-4 Players
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