Tinker With Puzzling Polyominos In CMON’s Monolyth

November 2, 2022 by brennon

Phil Walker-Harding is working on a neat new puzzle of a board game with the folks at CMON. Monolyth is coming out later this year and will have you scratching your head when it comes to creating pleasing patterns with polyominos.

Monolyth // CMON

In Monolyth, you are competing to match the colours and patterns of objective cards by placing polyominos onto your 4x4 player board. With each turn, you'll have to take a polyomino from the middle of the table and place it onto your board so that it doesn't sit outside of the grid or hangover into an empty space. You can also elect to just take single blocks to try and sure up those odd patterns that are emerging!

Monolyth Gameplay // CMON

As the game progresses you'll be taking more and more blocks whilst also looking to fulfil Prophecy Tokens (seen on the side of a player's board) which means you're working towards a specific goal in terms of colour.

A game will finish when someone has completed their monolith (4x4x3 in a three-four player game and 4x4x4 in a one-two player game). At that point, you tot up the scores for your Prophecy Tokens plus any other bonuses that you've got from matching patterns to the layers of your monolith and the person with the most victory points wins!

I really like brain teaser-style puzzles like these. They are an interesting mix of both focused actions to aid your own game whilst also trying to take what other players want so that you mess up their designs. Monolyth seems really intriguing and I am eager to give this one a go. It seems like the perfect board game cafe and event fodder!

What do you make of Monolyth?

"They are an interesting mix of both focused actions to aid your own game whilst also trying to take what other players want so that you mess up their designs..."

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