Burger Party Game Review
Reviewed by Louise Totton
We are on a mission in our house at the moment to spend more proper time together, which in practice means we’ve been sitting down together to eat our evening meals and we’ve been making a real effort to play a board game or card game on a non-homework night. It’s great fun and the kids look forward to choosing their game every night; they are genuinely as excited about it as they are a new game for the Xbox so it’s fast becoming a staple part of our evenings.
When the days have been long and dreary, especially with the weather that we seem to be having at the moment meaning that we’re cooped up all day, it’s the active, quick thinking games that the kids seem to want to go for. Burger Party by Goliath Games is just such a game – a fun, active and quick thinking game with lots of opportunities to smite your fellow players and also to scupper your own chances of victory by being that little bit TOO quick!
WHAT’S IN THE BOX?
This isn’t a boardgame, it’s a tabletop card game. The box contains:
105 Ingredient Cards
- Green: 15 lettuce, 11 Pickles
- Red: 15 Tomatoes, 11 Ketchup
- Yellow: 15 Cheese, 11 Onions, 8 Mayo
- Brown: 11 Meat Patties, 8 Mushrooms
- 5 Special cards (3 mice, 2 steals)
- 5 ‘Half Eaten’ cards
- 1 plastic burger, which doubles up as a storage container for the cards
- 1 set of instructions
WHAT’S THE AIM OF THE GAME?
The aim of the game is to win as many burger ingredients as you can by spotting matches between your fellow players. However, penalty points are scored for incorrectly declaring a match or even for stacking your matched ingredients in the wrong order, so you have to have your eyes in two places, and be quick thinking as well as just quick!
HOW DO YOU PLAY?
The game is for 2-5 players aged 6+. To play, everyone sits around the table and the burger is placed in the centre of the table. All of the cards are shuffled and are dealt out between the players. Play starts a little like snap, with the players playing their cards one by one, but instead of the played cards going into one central pile, each player plays their cards onto a pile in front of them. When a player spots a match, instead of shouting ‘snap’, they smash the burger in the middle of the table. If the match is confirmed, they can then pick one of the matching ingredients and put it under their ‘half eaten’ burger pile. But you have to be quick, because picking up one of the ingredients can potentially reveal another match which you might be able to smash for too! But it gets even more involved than that! The ‘half eaten’ burger pile is half eaten so you can see the last ingredient you won. You can’t stack two ingredients of the same colour on top of each other (so you can’t stack gherkins on top of lettuce). If you smash for either a non-match or for a match that will double up on your colours, the card has to go on your penalty pile. At the end of the game, each burger ingredient is worth one point, but the penalty ingredients result in a points deduction of two, so your hard-won points can soon diminish pretty quickly if you’re too slap-happy! Finally, the ‘steal’ card will allow you to steal any card from an opponent if you smash for it, and the mice cards will force fellow players to miss turns, putting them at a disadvantage. A round of the game takes around ten minutes to play.
WHAT WE THOUGHT
This is one of those great games that’s so easy to pick up and learn that after a round or two, everyone knows what they’re doing and is playing confidently. We absolutely loved the game and we all thought it was fantastic fun and it was absolutely hilarious! Something slightly physical is particularly good for those rainy days where everyone has been stuck inside and is a bit restless, so this is perfect for that. The quick 10 minute play time is also perfect if the kids are getting a bit restless and just need to fill a few minutes up to reset everyone’s frustration levels!
Rating: 5/5
RRP: £7.62
Available to buy from Amazon here.
