Grail Games Elevenses Card Game - Be The Perfect 1920s Socialite and Serve Morning Teas! Strategy Game for Kids and Adults, Ages 10+, 2-4 Players, 15-25 Minute Playtime, Made

I enjoy everything about this microgame - the artwork, the unique theme, the player interaction, the hand and tableau manipulation... It has a bit broader of a scale than Love Letter (the definitive microgame, I suppose), with the spatial element of the tableau, and simply the greater number of cards (11 per player). Despite this, for me it has all but replaced Love Letter as a quick microgame.The game has the typical microgame aspect of cards that have both ranks and actions. On top of this, cards each also have 'spoons,' which is essentially a second sort of rank - it's their scoring value. You're always working with a pretty small hand - three cards to start, but if you play either or both of the more powerful cards that sit outside the normal eight-card tableau, your hand can shrink to two or even one. This is risky, as many actions involve swapping cards among players. Ultimately you want to get spoons showing so that you can score when the round ends, but the mandatory actions combined with the small hand sizes and potential to end up with multiples of the same card all leads to a nice amount of depth for a microgame. And I, personally, love having a bunch of cards out in front of me, even in such a small, simple game.I should also add that there's an 'advanced' module which gives you a certain guest you're trying to entertain, giving you bonus spoons for having a specific set of face-up cards in your tableau. It adds some strategy without really impacting the simplicity of the rules, and is certainly a worthy inclusion. Finally, it's worth mentioning that the game scales well... Quite enjoy it from two through the full complement of four.

Drinking high tea is not going to be everyone's idea of a fun as a theme for a card game. But if you're one of those people who complains about overused themes, then you need to give Elevenses half a chance.In this game, players get their own identical deck of 11 cards numbered one through eleven: 1. Tea Trolley; 2. Tea; 3. Milk; 4. Sugar; 5. Cups & Saucers; 6. Fine China; 7. Biscuits; 8. Sandwiches; 9. Cakes; 10. Servants; 11. Elevenses. Each of these cards also has a special action, and using these actions is the heart of the game. Players have a personal "spread" of face up and face down cards, and the idea is to try to have as many tea spoons on the face-up cards in front of you at the moment the Elevenses card is played. If you do that, you win the round, and earn some of the point scoring sugar cubes needed to win the game.Elevenses is fairly straight forward to learn and play, and is a light game that especially good with 2-3 players as a filler; it can drag a bit with 4 players. It has a unique and fun theme, with good matching artwork that evokes a genteel atmosphere. Much of the game-play is about hand management, and while there's also luck of the draw, there are tactical elements to keep in mind in deciding how to play your cards. There's also some `take-that' elements that you can use to mess with your opponents.While not ground-breaking, Elevenses is a reasonably fun filler that stands out from the crowd because of its unique theme and delightful components. - EndersGame @ BGG

Deceptively simple. Easy to learn, but tricksy to play. Lots of fun!

Fun game, GREAT seller-- would definitely buy from this company again. Thank you!