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| Type | Toy |
|---|---|
| Inventor(s) | Leonard Marks Milton Dinhofer |
| Company | Lakeside Toys (1965) Milton Bradley Hasbro (1988–present) |
| Country | United States |
| Availability | 1965–present |
| Materials | Plastic |
Barrel of Monkeys is a toy game released by Lakeside Toys in 1965. It was created by Leonard Marks and Milton Dinhofer in 1961, and in 1964, Herman Kesler partnered to sell it to Lakeside Toys, which released it in 1965. It was then produced by the Milton Bradley Company, and Hasbro. Milton Bradley's editions consisted of a toy barrel in either blue, yellow, red, purple, orange, gray or green. The barrel contains 13 monkeys but can hold 24, their color usually corresponding to the barrel's color. The instructions state, "Dump monkeys onto table. Pick up one monkey by an arm. Hook other arm through a second monkey's arm. Continue making a chain. Your turn is over when a monkey is dropped." In addition to these basic instructions, the barrel also contains instructions for playing alone or with two or more players.
Time magazine ranked Barrel of Monkeys at No. 53 on their 2011 All-Time 100 Greatest Toys list.[1]
- ^ Townsend, Allie (February 16, 2011). "All-TIME 100 Greatest Toys - TIME". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved October 22, 2015.