Bites is an indirect-conflict commodity speculation game based on Big Points, a Spiel des Jahres Recommeded game in 2008, refreshed with a new theme, more engaging components, and rule-tweaking cards.
Gather Up The Most Delicious And Valuable Snacks!
Shared incentives, changing rules; pick up the best collection of cheese, bread, apples, and other delicious picnic scraps to win in Bites! Ants are marching down a trail of wonderful dual-layered food pieces. You don't control a single ant — instead, choose any color to move. The ants land on their matching color, and you get to pick up one of the surrounding pieces.
By itself, that food doesn't have any value! Their point values change when their matching ant reaches the end of the trail. Changing rule cards make every play different!
Shared incentives mean you are always trying to figure out what the other players are up to. Sometimes, you’ll want to eat all the green peppers. Other games you might go after grapes. You might try and collect all the apples only to have them be worthless at the end!
Only take what you can chew; Players can only loosely anticipate how much the food is going to be worth at the end of the game.
The point values are only determined once the matching ant makes it to the ant hill at the end of the trail. This creates shared incentives! Players might work together to advance some ants and hold others back.
The thrilling element of the game is planning how you can maximize the food tokens you collect, while also remaining flexible to the positions of the other ants as well as the tokens the other players have gathered.
No. of Players: 2 to 5
Min. Age: 10
