Jungle
BGG rank
BGG #23,027
BGG rating
6.1

Jungle

1981

Rules assistance for Jungle

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 2–6 players
  • 30 min
  • 9+
  • Complexity 1.2/5

For 2 players

Rules assistant for Jungle

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Jungle is a board game released in 1981 for 2–6 players, 30 minutes per game, and ages 9 and up. It was designed by Peter Pallat and its main mechanics are Point to Point Movement and Tile Placement.

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About the game

Contents: 36 tiles depicting the jungle. Shaped as three hexagons together (. a three hexagon??). Each tile has different junctions from which 3 paths come out. 12 counters of each color. From the rules: "This unusual game of strategy is played in 2 phases: 1. In the first, players use the tiles to create a jungle in which there are a number of continuous and broken paths. Each player claims the junction on each card they lay down using their colored counters. 2. In the second phase, players race to be the first to remove all their counters from the jungle by following the continuous paths to the outside"" Basically, the first phase is like playing Carcassonne, you lay a tile you put a man on the junction. (surprise?). Then every player tries to move the men out following the quickest route. One move, one tile. Blocking is important in this game.

Designers

Publishers

  • Spear's Games
  • Edition Perlhuhn (Göttinger Spiele)

Questions and answers

Jungle supports 2–6 players according to the catalogue. This range comes from the publisher’s listed player count, so the game can be set up for any group size within it. Some setups, rules and scoring details may still vary by player count, so check your edition’s rulebook for the exact configuration.