Tussie mussies exemplified the Victorian custom of assigning meaning to the flowers that friends and lovers exchanged. Inspired by the ideals of elegance and discretion, these bouquets were carefully made to convey subtle messages to their recipients. Now you can choose the right flowers to make a winning tussie mussie of your own!
Tussie-Mussie is based on a Victorian fad that assigned meanings to the flowers that friends and lovers exchanged.
Featuring I-Divide-You-Choose drafting, this microgame of 18 cards is played over three rounds. In turn, players look at the top two cards of the deck, then offer them, one face-up and one facedown, to an opponent. That opponent takes one, leaving the other for the active player.
A round ends when each player has four cards, at which point the scores are tallied. The highest score after three rounds wins!
—description from the designer
Co-winner of the GenCan't Design Contest.
Released in the September 2019 Board Game of the Month Club $20+ package.
- thematic for spring/motherly vibes
- compact and portable
- elegant art by Elizabeth Hargrave's lineage
- light on direct interaction
- some players may want more competition
- flowers, spring, Victorian bouquet
- Floral bouquet-themed set collection
- delicate, decorative, thematic
- Wingspan
- Calico
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card drafting — draft two cards and present faces up and down to the next player.
- set collection — players collect flower cards to form bouquets.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- it's just a word game it's very very fun
- mom loves auctions
- it's a perfect family gathering game
- this is Azul, a tile board builder
- moms love auctions