| 👨👩👧👦 | Players: 2-6 |
| ⏳ | Time: 20-30m |
| 🎂 | Ages: 8+ |
| ⚙️ | Mechanisms: Card Drafting, Set Collection |
What do you do when your dinos are hungry? You feed them of course!
Sugarrr!, from Delta Phase Games, puts you in charge of collecting and feeding ravenous, fruit loving dinosaurs. With names like sPINEAPPLEsaurus and TriPEARatops, these prehistoric behemoths each want a specific type of fruit.
Both fruit and dinosaur cards are obtained by adding matching cards to one of the five columns that make up the play area. If the last card you play matches the number of cards in the column you add them to your fruit pile, if not you get to collect a dino scoring card instead.
While the rules and gameplay are straightforward, we were pleasantly surprised by how much strategy is needed to do well. It’s not just about grabbing what is in front of you at the time, but about thinking ahead and setting yourself up for future turns.
For a game involving dinosaurs it’s not overly aggressive, these are herbivores after all! That doesn’t mean there aren’t a few ways to mess with the other player indirectly, and much to my disgust Steph managed to find them all very quickly!
We’ve had our best scores by striking a good balance between the fruit and scoring cards. My first game I neglected the dinos and while I had a huge pile of fruit it didn’t matter because without a matching multiplier it was fruitless!
We’ve enjoyed it a lot at two players. The market and columns don’t move that much between turns, which helps you to plan ahead. There are also plenty of dinos to go around and since there’s only one other person going for them you can usually grab at least one of each colour.
It’s been rawr-some fun so far and it’s one we’re keen to play more of.
You can see this post on Instagram here and if you are interested you can find out more about the game on the Delta Phase Games website!
The copy of Sugarrr! used for this review was provided to A Tale of Two Meeples by Delta Phase Games
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