It's time to hit the trail! Leave the campfire behind, and make your favourite S'mores recipes with the ingredients at hand. Every round you'll roll dice and have a different selection of marshmallows, chocolate, and graham crackers, and you'll have to draw them on your page and try to make the best recipes. Fill up rows and gain valuable bonuses, and roast your opponents by creating the most spectacular S'mores. Fill your sheet as best you can, or you might get burned by the end of the game!
Overview
S'mores Galore: Roast and Write is a roll and write game where each round, dice are rolled, giving all players a number of marshmallow, chocolate, and graham cracker symbols to write on their sheet. Players will place them trying to complete the recipes on display for points at the end of the game. Use the ingredients in another recipe for even more points. Complete rows and columns for special bonus and wild ingredients you can add to your page. At the end of the game, the player with the highest score wins.
—description from the designer
- family weight, plays up to many players
- portable and quick
- roll-and-write genre with a fun theme
- family-friendly, dessert-themed party game
- lightweight roll and write with a s'mores theme
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Compound Scoring — fill grid with s'mores-themed combinations to score points
- Flip/Roll and Write — roll dice to generate results and write into a shared grid
- puzzle-like scoring — fill grid with s'mores-themed combinations to score points
- Roll and Write — roll dice to generate results and write into a shared grid
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- this is a reimplementation of a game called Alf Ash.
- Well, this one is about gathering magical resources and then taking them along lay lines to deliver and sell them at markets.
- there is, you know, some luck because you'll be rolling dice to help you move.
- you will be auctioning off these cards.
- if you win the auction, you will get the card, but if you get second place, you get these animal cards.
- you can negotiate with other players.
- this is the card game version of the popular game Boop.
- you will be playing a kitten down that will boop away other kittens and you are trying to line up three of your kittens in a row in order to turn them into cats.
- There is a super kitten in the game which will boop cards two spaces away instead of just one space.
- this is an anti-set collection game in that you literally don't want to get two of the same card.