2025Chris Backe
- Videos
- 10
- Creators
- 6
1 - 6 players30 - 45 min

2025Chris Backe
Mainly how-to-play. Mint-Tin Monster Mash-Up is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 1 reviews, 3 how-to-play guides, and 1 recorded sessions.
From BoardGameGeek
Take on the role of 1 of 4 Mad Scientists and create your Monster Champion by smashing together 2 out of 24 fantastical creatures. Mint-Tin Monster Mash-Up combines dice, tactics, timing, and deceit into a portable dueling game that's easy to learn and plays in 15 minutes! Each Monster Card in the game has a Monster front on one side and a Monster back on the other. Players will assemble a unique creature by combining a front and back. The combination will not only determine its battle stats, but also create a unique "if-then" power that can be triggered to sway the tide of battle. Players will roll dice to determine their Attack. Energy and special powers can be used to manipulate the results. Once the dice are locked in, players simultaneously reveal a hand signal. They can add 0-5 Attack by "Boosting" (spending Energy), or they can Defend to reduce their Damage and regain Energy equal to their intelligence, or they can hit the "Panic Button" and force both players to re-roll. BUT, if a player Defends against a Panic Button, they auto-kill their opponent's creature. The loser of the battle takes damage equal to the Arena level plus any special attack damage. The Arena gets increasingly deadly until a battle is resolved. When a Monster is killed, the player's Mad Scientist flips over to their more powerful form, giving them an advantage in the next Battle. The first player to kill 3 of their opponent's Monsters wins. -description from the publisher
Mint-Tin Monster Mash-Up has 5 videos from 3 creators: 1 review, 3 how-to-play guides and 1 playthrough. They date from 2024 to December 2025.
To learn the rules, start with "Learn to Play Presents Galen's Mint Tin games overview" by Learn to Play Games, which runs 18 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Galen's Games Mint Tin Series Review - Brawl, Plant, Morph & Deliver" by BoardGameCo. To see it played, watch "Mint-Tin Monster Mash-Up solo playthrough" by Galen's Games.
If you like it, try Starfront Scouting Academy, Spies, Tiberpunk: Streets of Rome and Dragon vs Kingdom, also by Chris Backe.
2025Chris Backe
1 - 6 players30 - 45 min
2022Chris Backe
2 - 6 players20 - 30 minLight weight
2026Chris Backe, Robin David, Georgij Shugol, Alexander Krys, Oleg Meleshin
2 - 4 players90 min
From BoardGameGeek:
Take on the role of 1 of 4 Mad Scientists and create your Monster Champion by smashing together 2 out of 24 fantastical creatures. Mint-Tin Monster Mash-Up combines dice, tactics, timing, and deceit into a portable dueling game that's easy to learn and plays in 15 minutes! Each Monster Card in the game has a Monster front on one side and a Monster back on the other. Players will assemble a unique creature by combining a front and back. The combination will not only determine its battle stats, but also create a unique "if-then" power that can be triggered to sway the tide of battle. Players will roll dice to determine their Attack. Energy and special powers can be used to manipulate the results. Once the dice are locked in, players simultaneously reveal a hand signal. They can add 0-5 Attack by "Boosting" (spending Energy), or they can Defend to reduce their Damage and regain Energy equal to their intelligence, or they can hit the "Panic Button" and force both players to re-roll. BUT, if a player Defends against a Panic Button, they auto-kill their opponent's creature. The loser of the battle takes damage equal to the Arena level plus any special attack damage. The Arena gets increasingly deadly until a battle is resolved. When a Monster is killed, the player's Mad Scientist flips over to their more powerful form, giving them an advantage in the next Battle. The first player to kill 3 of their opponent's Monsters wins. -description from the publisher
Designer
Chris Backe
Artist
John de Campos
Publisher
Galen's Games
Categories
Mechanics