🍌 Tasso Banana – A Dexterity Game That’s Totally Bananas

Tasso Banana is fast, silly, and way more strategic than you'd expect from a bunch of wobbly wooden bananas. It’s also a Playte game, which means a few things right off the bat:

📦 The box becomes the board

🧳 It fits in your bag

🎉 It sets up in seconds

This one’s a perfect guest star for literally any occasion.

Waiting for dinner? ✅

Have 15 minutes? ✅

Feeling competitive? ✅✅✅

It’s light, quick, and somehow always a little tense, and I mean that in the best way. The game is designed by Junghee Choi and Phillippe Proux. It is available in the North America by 25th Century Games. The game plays 2-6 players, and it scales well. I feel that the game really shines at 4 or more players.

🎮 How It Plays

1. Unfold the box to make the board. This is my favorite feature on many of Playte games

2. Give each player an equal bunch of wooden bananas

3. On your turn, place one banana on the board. You can place this banana anywhere as long as you are in the board area and you don't touch one of the largest leaves (there are three and they can be added as you wish to make the game more competitive).

   1. If you are feeling lucky or greedy, you can try to balance a banana between two already placed bananas. If you succeed, you take another turn.

   2. If you fail, you collect all the bananas that fell or are now touching the extra leaves AND you must also take a banana from the player that went before you

   3. This move can be super rewarding or punishing. Depending how the banana gods are feeling in that precise moment

🏆 The player to place all their bananas first wins!

Pros

• 🍌 Stacking tension keeps everyone engaged

• 🧳 Portable game that plays anywhere

• 🧠 Light strategy

• 🎓 Super easy to teach

• 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Great with kids, friends, even non-gamers

• ⏱️ Under 15 minutes

• 🌐 Language independent

• 🎲 Sturdy, high-quality components

• 🚀 Quick turns with minimal downtime

Considerations

• 💥 If someone sneezes, the game might end (seriously). If this happens to you, you lose and play again 🙈

• 👀 Expect debates about banana placement, but fear not and trust your gut

• 🍌 Wooden bananas roll, so make sure to find an even surface or at least make sure that if the table wobbles, it is not in during your turn

Bottom Line

Tasso Banana is a quick, goofy dexterity game that’s sneakily smart. It plays well at any player count, is easy to bring anywhere, and adds instant energy to a game night. We’ve been pairing it with banana pudding as a themed appetizer, followed by Monkey Palace for a cheeky climb-the-ladder moment, or After Us for something a little more crunchy. Then we wind down with a round of Bananagrams or Tasso Banana depending on the crowd. Turns out banana night is kind of a-peeling (follow me for more puns 🙈)