In our season finale, two award winning games earn our Meeple Crown for 2025. These games embody the essence of Major Fun and The Spiel of Approval. Congratulations to Fromage and Hot Streak!
 

The coals are hot and the crowd is hungry. It’s time to get cooking!

Flip a card, then find a way to fit the food shown on the world’s tiniest grill.. using the world’s tiniest tongs. Make sure the food is touching the right number of bars along the grill and make sure not to drop anything into the fire. Burn too many things and you’ll have to turn in your apron and let someone else finish the meal.

Read on to discover why we love Barbecubes!

Your small art studio is known for beautiful bottles filled with colored sand in a pleasing array of patterns. From a common workbench, each player will take actions to collect, mix, and pour colored sand. You will pour sand into your bottle, a single sheet of paper, using colored pencils to create patterns. Goal cards at the ends of the workbench display simple and difficult layers to build. Public goals describe specific shapes to create and bonuses for the most sand of a color. Fill your bottle to create a one of a kind piece of sand art and achieve the best score. 

Read on to discover why we love Sand Art!

It’s bath time and all your rubber ducks have decided to join the fun. It’s nice having the whole flock together until you realize one big problem. With all this splashing around, you won't have any water left in the tub!

One by one, players try to consolidate their duck cards from a grid into stacks. Everyone plays at the same time. Like Bingo, the Captain draws a card and calls out a number. Everyone must find this number duck in their grid and use it to cover a neighor OR fly it to a new part of the tub. If your duck has already been covered, you QUACK to let folks know you didnt get to move. If everyone QUACKS, we are all one step closer to the end of the round. The bathtub with the lowest number of splashes after three rounds wins the game.

Read on to discover why we love Duck & Cover!

There are lots of thirsty people at the mela (the fair). Tapris (tea stalls) have dozens and dozens of customers waiting to be served. Can your tapri win over the crowd? You’ll need a variety of tea recipes and snacks at the ready to match the tastes of each customer. Every cup is a chance to advance your reputation and skill. Tea is not just a beverage in India. It’s a way of life - an emotion. Only the best brewers will stand out and succeed.

Chai Garam (Hot Tea) is an engine building game that celebrates tea culture in India. From a grid of customer cards, you’ll discover each person’s preferences. From the market, you try to gather the right combination of ingredients to make tea and match their orders. You’ll need water, tea leaves of the correct varieties (assam, darjeeling, kashmiri or nilgiri), maybe milk and sugar, and other special additives or aromatics to set your offerings apart. The size of your saucepan will determine how many cups you make. The more accurate your offering matches a row or column of customers, the more receipts you will earn and those receipts will help you move up the flavor track. Reach the top of the flavor track and your tapri will be declared the best in the mela!

Read on to discover why we love Chai Garam!

Oya One More is a press-your-luck dice and card game. Players race to reach a point total by matching dice they rolled to the pattern on a card. Here’s the catch! You can match only a single die to a card or ALL the dice to a card. You can stop and bank your points, but if you want to keep going, you flip another card. Each card you score entices you to try for another, but if you bust, all your gains this turn are lost.  Special cards may also entice you to keep going - allowing you to add points, steal dice, and manipulate or reroll dice. Bonuses for filling a card or using all the dice will have everyone chanting OYA ONE MORE as you decide whether to stop or keep going.

Read on to discover why we love Oya One More!

Love Conquers All is a game that explores the challenges we face when building and balancing relationships. These challenges - sickness, career, intolerance, fear, religion, obligation, children, travel, contempt - take on different shapes in our lives and place limitations and expectations on us all. Our collective goal in the game is to play cards and place irregularly shaped tiles representing these challenges so they all fit within the framework of the board. Each challenge comes with a rule or restriction making it increasingly difficult to find room to accommodate them all. Love can make all the difference here. A love tile that connects to a challenge nullifies its rules, opening the board and your life to make room for more. If you can place all the challenges, you’ll prove how love truly can conquer all.

Read on to discover why we love Love Conquers All!

You have inherited your grandfather’s small restaurant. His specialty: tofu! In order to become a Tofu Shifu, a master of this culinary art, you must learn every method and step in the process. From soy milk to silken, from firm tofu to dried, you’ll develop recipes to serve your customer’s tastes. To grow the restaurant, you’ll need a staff including waiters, chefs, cashiers, and masters. By assigning your Shifu and staff (represented by tokens and cards) to different tasks on the board, your humble eatery will grow and thrive. The player to complete the most objectives will become the greatest spot for bean curd in the market. 

Read on to discover why we love Tofu Shifu!

Eight races down a metal cone stand between you and marble racing immortality. Secretly choose how many of your marbles to risk on each race, then load everyone’s marbles into the launcher and let them fly! They will spin around and around the metal disc until one marble drops through the center hole and wins the race. Finish first second or third and you get to claim a trophy and score points. Be careful as you spend your marbles, though, because you lose them as you use them. And even if your marbles are slow, there’s an underdog bonus that will keep you in contention. Whose marbles will score big and rule over the Whirlyverse?

Read on to discover why we love Whirly Derby!

The Boomburg Battlesports Arena is home to the wildest televised tank competition in all the land. Animal crews from far and wide come here to compete for the coveted Carnage Cup. 

Captain Rosie Rhino pounds a path of destruction with her ramming charge. Captain “Scrappy” and team Trash Pandas can use anything as ammo, including their own tank. Captain Hare-Brain’s tank can hop its way out of trouble. The Sloth Brigade leaves the fighting to others and searches the battlefield for gold. Tiberius Rex of the Thunder Lizards doesnt even need a tank to cause major damage. Wander too close, and he’ll chomp your tank in two! 

The battlefield is littered with buildings which could contain weapons or conceal traps. Blow up tanks, gather gold, or gain glory to collect the most medals over a few brutally short and crazy rounds. The tank team with the most medals will cement their legacy as champions on the latest season of… Boom Patrol!

Read on to learn why we love Boom Patrol.