Giant monsters thrashing it out for control of Tokyo, whats not to love? King of Tokyo is a dice rolling game similar to Yahtzee, the twist is that players are giant monsters and the dice dole out damage, healing, energy or victory points. Just like Yahtzee you're trying to make combinations of dice, but in King of Tokyo your goal is to either get to 20 victory points or to kill off your opponents.
My favorite part of King of Tokyo is the player cards, to keep track of your health and victory points there are wheels inside the cards that display a number in a little window. This game mechanic works super well and is easy to handle even for players with less than perfect manual dexterity.
On interesting thing about King of Tokyo is how gameplay changes with different numbers of players. With 3 or 4 people you'll tend to focus on victory points and have less combat. With 5 or 6 you tend to have a lot more combat and the winner is usually the last monster standing. I've played King of Tokyo a lot and especially with big groups that don't know each other well everybody will start out being polite to each other with relatively few smacks but as the game progresses somebody (usually me) will become "that guy" and deliver a barrage of smacks and then its on!
King of Tokyo is a great game to play with kids or novice gamers, the dice are some of the best feeling I've ever used, they're slightly bigger than normal d6 and heavy with good feel in the hand. We play this game often with Angela's family and everybody has a great time.
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