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Gingerbread House, Lookout Games, 2018 — back cover (image provided by the publisher)

I made some ginger bread to go with the game!

If you place under the tray the empty punchboard sheets, the tray rises up and comes closer to the cover. By that way, you can store the box vertically, and the components stay in their place.

Gingerbread Tokens (you can find 3D file on Thingiverse)

Getting ready to play. The game is so cute and fun

Gingerbread House, Lookout Games, 2018 — front cover (image provided by the publisher)

Gingerbread House (2018)

Players

2–4

Best: 3

Playing time

30–30 min

Age

6.98

Average rating

3,104

Ratings

1.85/5

Weight

#1807

BGG rank

Top 5,000

Alternate names:La Casa de Caramelo +6 more

Designer:Phil Walker-Harding

Artist:Klemens Franz, Andy Elkerton

Publisher:asmodee +7 more

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

Game DNA

Strategy7.0

Luck5.0

Interaction5.0

Complexity3.7

Theme5.0

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

FantasyPuzzleHumorMythologyNovel-basedTile PlacementSet CollectionPattern BuildingEnd Game BonusesContractsSquare GridLayering

Overview

Once upon a time a witch lived alone in her house in the depths of the forest. Her favorite hobby was baking yummy gingerbread; in fact, she loved gingerbread so much that she built her entire house out of it. Unfortunately, she wasn't the only one who loved it! Rude fairy tale characters passing by were eating away her walls, windows, and doors! One day, the witch decided that she'd had enough of them all helping themselves and, paying attention to which types of gingerbread these greedy intruders liked the most, she came up with an idea on how to get rid of them once and for all...

In Gingerbread House, you place domino-like tiles in a 3 by 3 grid, covering symbols that provide you with four different types of gingerbread and special actions. Tiles may also be placed on existing types of tiles, forming a 3D structure in front of you. Covering two of the same symbol is extremely valuable as it provides a bonus gingerbread or action. Victory points are awarded for building the tallest structure, completing orders by discarding sets of gingerbread, as well as being the quickest to achieve certain conditions. In the end, the player with the most victory points wins.