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The game with TWISTS but no TURNS!
Race to plant all cards from your Seed Pile, and see who can play the most cards into the Canopy. It's a game of speed, precision, and competition - a game with twists but no turns! Do you have what it takes to be not only the fastest player, but the best?
—description from the publisher
Banapples plays like competitive solitaire with player interaction. The red and yellow "tree" piles alternate colors while descending, and the scoring piles are one color only and ascending. You are allowed to play to other player's scoring piles, so you could potentially block them from scoring the card they wanted to score, but everything goes so fast that no one feels like it was mean. Everyone plays at their own speed, real-time, with no turns, until someone's "seed" pile runs out. Then it's time to score the cards at face value.
One round lasts about 15 minutes. A full game to 500 points lasts about an hour.
—user summary
- lots of laughter and interaction
- works well with six players
- bidding can get chaotic; may not appeal to all groups
- witty bidding and social negotiation
- apple bidding with positive/negative values
- humorous and party-friendly
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Auction / Bidding — players bid to win apples; some apples carry negative value
- bidding with positive/negative tokens — players bid to win apples; some apples carry negative value
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- "This is a game in which you are ranking things in tears."
- "It's a fun group talking activity, and it's silly and fun"
- "Simple, fast, fun, speedy card game"
- "My favorite party game by a mile this year is from CMYK Games."
- "There you go folks. Those are my top 10 party games of 2025."