a wolf in sheep’s clothing
People sitting at the table with me have to obey a few rules, although those less involved in the board game world look at me strangely or think that I am joking. Nothing liquid can be around, so the glasses are placed on top of other furniture, and only fingers are left of food. Spending a few dozen zlotys on a small game and destroying it is a small loss, but a title for a few hundred zlotys, not to mention 1000+, is a completely different story.
Therefore, it was quite fun to open a specific package, bearing in mind the greasy fingers of some of your teammates and all kinds of stains on the cards and the board. The chips in such an edition must even hit the table, and between two and five players can sit around it.
Help yourself
The chips are tossed into the packet. We put the boards in an accessible place in ascending order, and next to them we place reward markers and a deck, from which everyone draws 6 task cards.
During each round, we will draw pucks from the pack and play or discard cards as marked on the board. First, take out five chips and get rid of two cards from your hand, creating a discard pile in front of you, then lay out the next four and discard one more task. After placing three discs on the third board, everyone decides where to place the remaining tasks in their hands. Two of them should be placed on the plus side, and one on the minus side (they are on the back of previously discarded cards).
For each completed task (plus), we receive positive points in accordance with the task that we have successfully completed. If we pass the challenge assigned to the minus, these will be our negative points. The player with the highest total score receives two reward tokens and the player with the second-placed rank receives one reward. When someone gets four markers, they win the game.
Teeth, denture, denture
Chipsy is a party game, but quite relaxed for this category. You’re not going to yell and laugh. What counts during the game is to predict the random selection of pucks and the ability to estimate the probability with which a given color will be pulled from the pack.
The theme resembles a casual meeting with friends, but has nothing to do with the mechanics, while the packaging is very well reproduced and rustles like the original, as I found out when trying to play near a sleeping child. I was hoping the chips would be irregular, wavy, but that’s probably too much of a requirement for a small party party. I do not know what the durability of the package will be after a few months, but so far it works fine. The chips are neat and the markings on the cards are simple and understandable.
Is this a good party game? I don’t think I would recommend her to such meetings in the first place. In my opinion, the most important thing is probability, i.e. the basics of mathematics, which, combined with the unusual theme and packaging, should appeal to students and teachers (they could introduce this branch of science in such a fun way). I have a neutral attitude towards Chipsy – the aforementioned destiny seems optimal to me (I will sit down to the party proposed by someone), but they will not insist on taking the package out themselves. At the same time, there will be a lot of people who like simple, random games, who will like this snack, and the possibility of taking risks when choosing tasks will be an overwhelming advantage.
