Gibbon Take: A Primate Party Game

🐵 Hit the Dance Floor

Gibbon Take is a fast, family-friendly game of dancing primates, stolen fruit, and friendly sabotage.

🙈 Easy enough to teach in minutes.
🙊 Mischievous enough to start some trouble.
🙉 Fast and fun enough to play again and again.

🦧 What’s in the Box?

Everything you need to start the party

• 54 cards
• 33 Fruit tokens
• 1 Dance Die
• 1 Rulebook

🥭 Bonus Edition

Get more for your Mangoes with the BONUS EDITION of Gibbon Take.

"A great little game that takes just a few seconds to learn... Definitely get the expansion."
— Tray & Jennifer Green, Origins Game Fair playtesters & backers

The Bonus Edition comes packed with the Mango Mambo expansion and Fruit Frenzy.

Mango Mambo adds a push-your-luck choice to every score. Take the regular fruit—or gamble on a Mango worth 4, 5, or ZERO points.

Fruit Frenzy adds 3 Bananas, 3 Oranges, and 3 Apples to extend the fruit supply—great for larger groups or when you want the party to last a little longer.

2 MINI-EXPANSIONS • 18 EXTRA TOKENS
9 Mangoes + 9 Extra Fruit

• 9 Mango Fruit Tokens
• 3 Banana Fruit Tokens
• 3 Orange Fruit Tokens
• 3 Apple Fruit Tokens

🎓 How to Play

Your turn is 3 simple steps: Draw, Play, Roll.

• Draw 1 card from the top of the deck.
• Play 1 card from your hand.
• Roll the dance die.

The die calls the dance, and all players with a matching pair of primates on their dance floors claim a fruit token as a reward.

Roll the Gibbon... that's the Gibbon Take!

If you roll the Gibbon, you get to take a fruit token from another player.

Pair Up or Crash the Party?

Build your Dance Floor by pairing up Primate Dancers.  You need pairs to score, but you can only bring them out one at a time.  Plan carefully because someone could be planning to crash your party.

On your Play action, instead of adding another dancer to your floor, you can play a Party Crasher.  These 1-time use cards can manipulate the dance floors, protect your fruit, and give you an extra edge.  Did someone steal fruit tokens from you?  Crashers are the fastest way to get revenge.

Who's taken the lead?

Because the token values are hidden no one knows who's winning.  When one of the fruit piles is empty, the party is over.  Flip your tokens over to reveal your hidden score and dance a victory dance.

🐾 Played, Tested & Party-Proven

Gibbon Take has been played and tested at conventions from coast to coast.  From our booth at Origins Game Fair to Dice Tower West, and even at Gen Con... families, friends, and fellow gamers jumped in to give it a whirl.  Games always ended with laughs, groans, and players asking for another round.

Never Bored Gaming on Gibbon Take

What people had to say

"This is a wonderful, fun game."
— John Zinser, CEO, Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG)

"A great little game that takes just a few seconds to learn... Definitely get the expansion."
— Tray & Jennifer Green, Origins Game Fair playtesters & backers

At Dice Tower West
Players liked that the take-that moments felt fun without making the game feel overly punishing.

At Origins Game Fair
Parents told us they were excited to find a game they could enjoy playing with their kids.

At Gen Con
Players told us Gibbon Take felt like the kind of quick, social game they could bring back to their regular gaming groups.

📦 Rewards

🏪 Calling All Retailers!

Want to bring Gibbon Take to your shelves? We'd love to work with you!

We're offering brick-and-mortar retailers special wholesale pricing on multi-copy orders, with reduced per-unit shipping for larger shipments.

Email jason@simeousbusiness.com for retailer pricing, order quantities and estimated availability. Let's get this party into your store!

💌 Add-Ons

Round out your pledge with a few optional extras:

🕹️ Try Gibbon Take Online

Do you like to play tabletop games online?  Try before you buy with our virtual version on Screentop.gg, completely FREE.

https://screentop.gg/@SimeousBusiness/gibbontake

Screentop works like a tabletop game simulator.  Final art and rules are represented, but there is no game logic.  If you're new to Screentop, don't worry, it's very easy, web-based and requires no account creation.

Simeous Business is a husband-and-wife indie game studio creating bold, playful tabletop games that bring people together.With nearly 20 years of professional game-development experience, Jason Seabaugh brings polished design, and strong visual storytelling to his work. Tracy Seabaugh's love of social play and family shaped the core design of Gibbon Take.

We love fast, chaotic games that get people laughing and wanted to create something that captures that energy in a simple, replayable format. By backing this project, you’re helping a small creative team bring fun memories to families and friends everywhere

No AI art was used in the making of Gibbon Take.  Enjoy this behind the scenes look at the art of Gibbon Take.  We have plenty more art process videos on our socials, discoverable at www.simeousbusiness.com.

📅 Production & Timeline

Gibbon Take is fully designed and extensively play-tested. Kickstarter will help us fund manufacturing, printing, freight, and fulfillment so we can bring the finished game to your table.

🚢 Shipping & Fulfillment

🇺🇸 U.S. Shipping

Shipping will be charged with your Kickstarter pledge.

• Single copy — $12
• Each add-on copy — +$4
• Party Pack — $25

Final shipping charges will be shown when you select your reward.

🌎 International Shipping

International backers are welcome! We plan to offer delivery to selected countries during the campaign and expand in the post-campaign based on interest.

🇨🇦 Canada

• Single copy — $15
• Each add-on copy — +$6
• Party Pack — $42

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

• Single copy — $20
• Each add-on copy — +$8
• Party Pack — $58

🇪🇺 EU BACKERS — We want to hear from you!

Bringing a retail product to the EU isn't simple for a small company on our first project, however with sufficient interest I'd like to make it happen.  Leave a COMMENT on the campaign with your country.  Also, join our mailing list at GibbonTakeGame.com to be notified when we add additional options.

Some International shipping may not be not included in your pledge if you're outside the US, Canada or the UK.  Because international rates vary significantly by destination, some shipping will be collected after the campaign through Kickstarter's Pledge Manager.

Note: if shipping was $0 at your pledge for your Standard Game, Add-on Copy, or Party Pack, then that will be calculated via Pledge Manager.  Shipping amounts for Canada and UK were added after launch and could not be added to some items retroactively. Bonus Edition upgrades and swag are shipped with your games for FREE.

Applicable taxes, customs duties and import fees may apply, depending on your country.  

When Will My Game Arrive?

We're targeting April 2027 to begin shipping rewards. We'll share regular production and fulfillment updates throughout the process, including any changes to our estimated schedule.

Thanks for helping us get Gibbon Take out into the world!

📖 Rulebook

Want to see how the monkey business works? Check out the complete Gibbon Take rules before you pledge.

https://gibbontake.simeousbusiness.com/pitch/GT_rules.pdf

🎉 JOIN THE PARTY!

Help us bring Gibbon Take to game tables everywhere. Back our Kickstarter and get ready to BUST SOME MOVES and SNATCH THE SNACKS!

🍎🍊 THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT 🍌🥭