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Soda Pop Girl Verika at Midwinter Gaming Con running demos of Tentacle Bento in the Milwaukee Company of Gamers board game room.

These are the minis that came with the Kickstarter pre-order of the game after I finished painting them, with LEGO Gandalf for scale.

Missy does a royal capture on Soda Pop Girl Verika

Tentacle Bento being demoed at Midwinter Gaming Con in Milwaukee, WI

MilCoG @ Midwinter Game Convention, Milwaukee

Tentacle Bento (2012)

Players

2–6

Best: 4

Playing time

60–60 min

Age

16+

5.51

Average rating

340

Ratings

1.27/5

Weight

#28050

BGG rank

Outside top 5,000

Designer:John Cadice, Chris Birkenhagen, Deke Stella

Artist:Andrea Cofrancesco

Publisher:Soda Pop Miniatures +1 more

Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).

Game DNA

Strategy5.0

Luck5.0

Interaction5.0

Complexity2.5

Theme6.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

Card GameScience FictionMature / AdultSet CollectionHand Management

Overview

Tentacle Bento is a cheeky, fast-playing trick-taking card game for 2 to 4 players. Each game puts you in the enviable position of being a horrid, tentacle-flailing, slime-oozing monster from outer space – cleverly disguised (of course) as an adorable and newly enrolled student at Takoashi University, an all-girls school nestled in scenic Japan.

Play requires matching a student, a location, and an action in order to get points for that student. Any suit combination of these cards is sufficient for a "sloppy capture", but a "noble capture" (all items of the same suit) allows you to capture up to three students simultaneously. Noble captures also allow additional game actions.

Suits in the game are "cute", "sexy", "sporty", and "smart". Cultural events (such as Sports Day) and special personalities can also modify the basic game play.