Jungo Game Review

Regular readers of my content know that one of my main measures of a game is the fun factor regardless of whether I win or lose…but, especially if I lose. My eight-year-old son takes that to another level.

Jungo (2025, Happy Camper) is, in the immortal words of my son, the “GOAT of card games in 2025.” That’s because he won’t stop trying to play it.

He likes the monkeys on the cards. He likes the rules. He likes the play time. He likes winning Jungo. He likes losing Jungo, and he lost his first four plays before he finally won. He likes saying the word Jungo.

He likes playing Jungo after playing games he has already asked to play. “Daddy, can we do Pay Day, then a quick game of Jungo?” he recently asked, before even finishing the set up for Pay Day. (It was like he wanted to have Jungo for dessert.)

The two of us had a boys night recently, and after dinner (but before watching a movie), he had a request. “Can we play one hand of Jungo before we watch the movie?” he asked, holding Jungo in his hands. “It’s pretty quick, you know.”

He likes playing Jungo with the family, but I have a feeling he will bring Jungo to school for…

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