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No one knows when the giant fruits started growing, but everyone agrees they make a legendary punch. Become the head of one of four factions — orange, lemon, grape, or strawberry — and lead a band of rollicking revelers to victory.
Compete with the other factions to bring the most desired ingredients to three massive punch bowls before they're served. Fish out your opponents' fruits, add droves of your own, and introduce special ingredients to tip the balance. When each punch is served, the winner adds some to their punch cup, along with coveted ice cubes for varying bonuses.
Punch Bowl is easy to learn and quick to play, with beautiful watercolor artwork and deluxe components. It includes elements of area control, as well as a unique deck-curation mechanism in which players manage an ever-diminishing deck. Outmaneuver your opponents to win eternal glory and an overflowing cup of punch!
—description from the publisher
- Award-winning game
- Cool components
- Interesting solo mode
- Gorgeous presentation
- Fruit factions at war
- giant fruits
- Fire Tower
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Players compete to control different areas with their fruit factions.
- Hand Management — Players lose a card every turn.
- Set Collection — Players are trying to collect sets of fruits.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- The show became three dudes and immediately became nothing but hot takes and all yelling at each other
- If you don't get a 12th of the year for yourself, selfish to say.
- This is an unprecedented time. Otani is unreal. Uh, to be able to provide that value and we're talking about value as in games, right?
- We're all League ignorant here, but Riftbound is a pretty sweet card game.
- make it so that you don't get screwed for resources. And make it so you never have to shuffle your deck.
- Again, they switch seats. But the set does look incredible.
- My head still hurts from that game, by the way.
- You know what's funny, too? It actually has a solo game which I'm interested in because area control and solo game never really I I never would have thought
- It's really cool to talk to Mike getting to know his background as a musician and as a DJ and uh how he used that um to um take him along the journey of the board game design.
- it's crazy how simple of a game it is and how much it paralyzes you and it's like a hallmark of his design.
- None of us were correct. That's so funny.