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Faction: Gamiverses · Type: Digital · Price: €9.95 (excl tax) · Same Spell As: Bauble Ball · The Silent Wall · Quiz of Christmas (Kids) · My First Colors · Comes Before: Split Safari

Bauble Ball

An empty tree awaits your touch Place your baubles, but don’t place too much In this tactical Christmas game, every bauble matters See who scores the most; see whose deco dream shatters

Bauble Ball is a game about decorating the same Christmas tree together. Unfortunately, though, you’re not working together—you’re playing against each other. The tree has only a few spaces for baubles, and every tree has its own strict rule about what’s allowed. For example: it’s forbidden to place two of the same color next to each other.

Try to get rid of all your baubles! And try to do it in a way that makes it impossible for other players to place theirs.

There are many trees to pick, and many baubles to randomly distribute, which makes every game feel completely different.

Moreover, the base game does not rely on text or numbers, allowing young kids to play too. Only the expansions add special baubles with numbers and letters, allowing some practice with maths and language, if you want. They also add action baubles and the ability to play with multiple trees, which can support a higher number of players.

Even better, this is a simultaneous game: people don’t get turns, but instead act all at once! You secretly pick your baubles at the same time, then reveal and resolve together. This makes individual games very quick and without downtime, satisfying even the most impatient of players.

Of all our Christmas games, this is probably the most suitable entry game for any group of people. Not complicated, but also not childish. Short and simple, but still with clear strategy and a Christmas theme.

REMARK! The game requires cutting out a good number of circular Christmas Baubles. That’s why “setup” is marked as 2/5 stars (instead of our usual 1/5), because this will take a solid 30 minutes of cutting! Once cut out, of course, you never have to do it again and every new game can be started within 10 seconds.
REMARK! This is one of our rare games that really must be printed in color. The bauble colors are such a crucial part of the game, and one of the “educational topics” of the game, that we realized it made no sense to support a grayscale/colorblind version too.

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  • Rules PDF (3 pages; 1 base game, 2 expansions)
  • Material PDF (8 pages; 8 possible trees to play + many different Christmas baubles)
  • Original/Source Files (.af files that you can open and edit in the free Affinity software!)