Our Games

Fruit Market

The power’s gone out. Can you manage to find the fruit you need for your business?

The market is full of 12 different types of fruit. Each fruit has three different types of features that overlap with one another (for instance, a mango is smooth on the outside like a banana).

By asking questions about a neighbor’s inventory and keeping an eye on others, players can deduce and collect the fruit needed to satisfy one’s backlog of customer orders.

Players can’t just use their own fruit to fulfill orders, so some careful movement of fruit may be needed in addition to careful sleuthing.

The winner is the fruit seller that earns the most points from their completed orders.

Features

• Many tropical fruits people find new and cute
• Simple gameplay with enough strategy for all ages
• Answers and actions can reveal what other players are going for

Components

• 36 Fruit Cards
• 18 Objective Cards
• 1 Guide Chart

Beach Combers

There’s a whole lot of treasure out there. The trouble is, you need to dig in to find it.

Light hand management, area control, and bidding combine in a quick, strategic game that has players searching parts of a beach for buried treasure.

Beach combers take turns searching the beach (represented by cards) with their metal detectors. Some parts may hold special actions; others contain valuable treasures. Every now and then, Mother Nature may choose to take matters into her own hand.

In the beginning, no part of the beach is off limits. As worthless objects begin to litter the beach and backpacks start filling up with loot, however, players face numerous decisions including a run to the local pawn shop and messing around with other beach combers along the way.

The winner is the player that earns the most revenue by the time no more treasures can be uncovered.

Features

• General access to any card
• Piles of cards that combine and split up
• Simple betting mechanism for offloading low-value treasures

Components

• 92 Beach Cards
• 16 Pawn Shop Cards
• 5 Player Markers
• 1 Pawn Shop Board

Crunchy Leaves

Nothing spells happiness quite like a crunchy leaf. Will you collect the crunchiest of them?

In Crunchy Leaves, players collect sets of similar types of leaves. Be the first to collect three sets to win a recognition badge, but watch out for players that might be collecting even better sets than you.

When leaves fall on a player’s pile, location matters. Players aren’t able to move leaves around except to claim them. As the game goes on, leaves begin to fall more frequently.

Combined, this changes player’s strategy as not only rounds progress but the game goes on.

The winner is the first player to receive three recognition badges.

Features

• Curated piles of cards on the table
• Rounds end more quickly as the game progresses
• Race to complete sets
• Ties broken by points assigned to difficult of acquiring sets

Components

• 90 Leaf Cards
• 10 Acorn Cards
• 10 Recognition/Leaf Tokens
• 4 Player Tokens
• 1 Starting Player Marker

Noodle Shop Challenge

The heat’s increasing in the kitchen, but is it from the stove, your team, or the long queue of hungry customers outside?

Dice rolling and worker placement bring players into the kitchen where chefs work cooperatively to prepare and serve customers’ orders.

One head chef works together with one or more chefs to make sure what is being prepared is to the customer’s liking.

Finish an order early to receive a better customer review. Take too long and that customer might never return.

Even if chefs are able to efficiently operate their kitchen, there’s always the question of promotion at the end.

All chefs win if all three orders are completed. The performance of the head chef is dictated by the reviews their food receives. The title of sous chef is awarded additionally to the chef with the most recognition points.

Features

• Table presence with handcrafted bowls of noodles
• Chefs secretly vie for more recognition
• Being good at a skill carries over into other parts of the kitchen

Components

• 45 Clear Ingredient Cards
• 30 Recognition Tokens
• 20 Dice
• 12 Customer Order Cards
• 3 Bowls
• 3 Order Trays
• 3 Time Tracks
• 1 Game Board
• 1 Rolling Pin Time Tracker

Escape the Room

You’re trapped in a room. Will you be able to find and decipher clues in time to escape?

In Escape the Room, players experience an escape room right from the comfort of their own home.

Modular themed rooms, clues, and difficulty levels combine to create a unique play experience every time.

Players take turn searching the room for clues. Using a kanban-style system, players solve clues by rolling dice. Over the course of the game, players begin to specialize their roles more (for instance, becoming more astute at noticing little details), while clues become easier to solve (the more details are uncovered).

Players successfully escape if they manage to solve all six clues before the time is up.

Features

• Modular system allows for expansion and replayability
• Consumable tools adds layer of strategy
• Kanban system means players must take a turn to switch their role

Components

• 36 Clue Cards
• 18 Dice
• 6 Clue Finding Cards
• 6 Clue Solving Cards
• 6 Attribute Cards
• 4 Bomb Cards

Paper Airplane

You and your friends work to keep your paper airplanes flying for as long as possible.

In Paper Airplane, friends work together to keep a bevy of folded airplanes—represented by sand timers—in flight as long as possible.

Planes are in flight as long as there is sand in a sand timer. Sand timers flip whenever a players plays a corresponding colored paper airplane card.

By managing hands and communicating well, players aim to play through the entire deck.

The end of the game occurs when the first sand timer runs out or all the cards are played. Players collectively earn accolades based on how well they do.

Features

• Colorblind friendly symbols
• Periods of relaxation and intensity
• Focus on keeping the sand in equilibrium

Components

• 94 Paper Airplane Cards
• 8 Wind Cards
• 6 Cruise Cards
• 6 Sand Timers

Hackronyms

Hack together sentences in this high-energy word game where your solution is somebody else’s problem.

Players create ever-increasingly complex sentences for opponents to handle in this quick word game where every letter represents the beginning of a word.

Working to complete a single complete sentence within a reasonable amount of time, players generate sentences that are often wild (if not downright hilarious).

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Credits: The project and “How to Play” video were created by Salty Tiers Productions (Thanks Eddie!).

Thanks to Andrew and Patrick for being there to start this whole journey. Without your encouragement, I’m not sure where Hackronyms would be.