Donuts! Sweet, delicious……….and mean! Haha not a term you would usually link back to such delicious delights. But in GO NUTS FOR DONUTS, there are some sharp sprinkles ready to stick in your throat (in the best possible way of course!)

Sweeeeeet!

Go nuts for Donuts is a colourful, bidding and bluffing, set collecting card game that is great family fun! Each round, a number of cards are placed in the offer row and players simultaneously and secretly decide which of the donuts they want for themselves. Using numbered cards, players reveal their pick, and the players who have made unique choices get to add the matching treat to their personal collection (in ascending order). If two or more players have opted for the same numbered treat, it goes into the discard pile. Then the row is refreshed, and a new round begins. The game ends when the deck runs out and the offer row cannot be refreshed.

Final Thoughts

We love Go nuts for Donuts! Secretly deciding which delicious donut you want to claim and then finding out it’s not going to be yours when all players reveal their selection is teeth gnashing! But then also realising that you have blocked someone from getting the one they really want too is deliciously devilish! And doubling up on donuts happens a lot in our house! I don’t know how as I try to think differently and work out what others are going to bid on based on what they have and what they think I might go for. But somehow, I seem to shoot myself in the donut hole each round – even when there are multiples of the same donut on display and I choose a different number each time!

Some dounts are straight up points whereas others accumulate the more of that type you can collect. And that causes brilliant decision dilemmas – do I go for another Jelly Filled to increase my score, or do I go for a Donut Hole that will stop another player adding more points? Others like Penny Plain (okay so she’s not called Penny in the game but that’s what we know her as) score depending on how many of the same your opponents have.

Not only that but at higher player counts there are also some seriously unsavoury selections that let you steal other players’ cards or inflict negative points at end game (or even suffer them yourself if you aren’t careful!). The official 2P mode removes these, however, and the deck is further reduced in size too to keep the game moving along at a pace. It’s quite rare that we find auction games that work well at 2P, but this one does the job well! It’s often pretty clear what the other player is going to go for, but that head to head feeling just adds fun pressure! It can sometimes result in a chain of discards, but someone will be able to dive into it at some point! I’s a great, versatile game and our son (who likes to focus on the sweet and not the sour in games) really enjoys it!. Personally, I really like the take-that in the treats so when we play with my husband or more players, there’s guaranteed to be jam (or jelly!) all over the floor by the end of a game of Go Nuts For Donuts! haha

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