Gingham

The race is on! Ants have found an abandoned picnic blanket ripe with sweets, but there aren’t enough for every colony …

Gingham is a tricky game of confection connection. In this cardless game inspired by trick taking, players position their queens around the gingham picnic blanket and deploy their ants to connect sweets and claim the stockpiles they create.

The lead player determines which side of the board that all players must play on each round. Whoever places their queen closest to the star (in the most valuable position of the led side) becomes the leader of the next round. Players then deploy their ants into the rows that they place their queens. The catch is that you cannot deploy your ant beyond the stitch, and the rows that are closer to the star offer less options. Do you opt for a better turn order position for next round or more flexibility for this round?

By connecting matching sweet tokens and surrounding and claiming stockpiles, players score points, while also collecting sweet sugar cubes to be spent on powerful abilities.

Stretch your ants across the blanket and grab the biggest piles of sweets to prove your pint-sized royalty!

Gingham is the second title in Bitewing Games’ Travel Line. This line of games is focused on being supremely easy to play with anyone, anywhere.

—description from the publisher