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Image from box top of Granny Wars:  A Game of Tit for Tat
Co-creators of Granny Wars, L-R:  Amanda Milne, Brad Thompson, Julia Schiller
In play at Auckland Board Games by the Bay May 2019
This lovely family sought Julia out at Board Games by the Bay and put her through her paces teaching them the full lineup of Cheeky Parrot Games. First up was Granny Wars.

Granny Wars: A Game of Tit for Tat (2013)

Players
2–8
Best: 4, 5
Playing time
20–20 min
Age
7+
6.16
Average rating
61
Ratings
1.33/5
Weight
#21950
BGG rank
Outside top 5,000
Designer:Julia Schiller, Amanda Milne, Brad Thompson
Artist:Tim Kings-Lynne, Kuan-Sheng Hsu
Publisher:SchilMil Games, Ltd. +1 more
Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).
Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 5, Luck 5, Interaction 9, Complexity 2.7, Theme 3
Strategy5.0
Luck5.0
Interaction9.0
Complexity2.7
Theme3.0

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

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Overview

Your Granny's position as the town's top handicrafter is threatened by upstart contenders from a new retirement community. Your task is to try to help her, while distracting and sabotaging her competitors – but if you don't keep your loyalty hidden, the other players will definitely stitch you up!

At the beginning of Granny Wars: A Game of Tit for Tat, you receive a secret loyalty card matching one of the Granny cards on the table, and you are dealt ten cards which range from -5 to +5 points. The deck also includes Gold cards, which grant a special Granny power (like "Nana Nap") in addition to points. Players take turns adding cards to the Grannies, and the "Tit for Tat" mechanism allows a player to "bounce" an equal and opposite card from one pile to another, e.g., playing a +3 on a -3 lets a player move the -3 to another pile of their choice.

After everyone has exhausted their 10 cards, players reveal which Granny they supported and sum the points in her pile of cards.

The game can be played by 2 players, with a small modification to the rules.

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