Jon and I wanted to have a little game to ourselves, and since we still had leftover apple fritter cake, we probably didn’t need another sweet treat lol. So I tried a new recipe to make us a light dinner / snack (and then had apple fritter cake for dessert!). Both the recipe and the game had potential, but how did they turn out?

At a Glance…

‘Egg’ Bites

These egg bites are so cute and easy to make. Fry up some veggies and blend tofu with seasonings, bake and voila! You’ve got a protein packed little snack or light dinner. This made 24 mini muffin sized bites or 12 regular sized muffin bites. I threw in some green chili cheddar rebel cheese, because, of course I did. These have a lot of potential and flexibility. They did turn out saltier than we would’ve liked, between the salt, soy sauce, and black salt, so next time I’ll cut down on that and they’ll be great! They were good plain, but would probably also be great with some guacamole, salsa, hot sauce, or ketchup. The possibilities are endless, and they’re super easy!

Kokeshi

Kokeshi looks so lovely; and the theme is delightful! You’re making little Japanese dolls, but really you’re trying to increase your happiness. Delightful. The unique thing about it is that you’re creating your own engine and tracks using these bakelite acrylic-y tiles that are so lovely and chunky. Each turn, you move up one of your players on its track and do the thing on the tile. It’ll often move other people up, or move various animals up their tracks. If you ever move someone up and there isn’t a tile there, they go back to the bottom and you add a new tile to their track. You get points (and more tiles) for your animal tracks, as well as getting point tiles instead of regular ones as you get higher and higher. I found it a bit lucky, as sometimes it felt like the clearly better tiles kept coming out on Jon’s turn, lol, and we definitely saw the potential for mean play. If you see someone going high on one track, saving up for that good point token, you can get a lower point token before them and that makes the higher ones get discarded. We don’t tend to play that mean-spirited, but it definitely has that potential, so beware. If you’re ok with that possibility and like some simple track movements that chain together in fun ways, check this one out! Thanks Grand Gamers Guild for gifting this one to the cafe library!

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