Pinata (nee Balloon Cup) is an excellent and short two player game. In it you alternate laying cards down on your side of the game boards to get either the highest or lowest point total in one of the candy levels from one to four.
There are two sides to each of the four levels of boards, a high side and a low side.
Each card laid must correspond to a coloured candy. Therefore if you have two yellow, a red, and a blue candy you must lay down two yellow, a red, and a blue card. If your side, in a candy level, is filled with the required cards you can start to lay cards down on the opponents side.
Once a level has been filled with the required cards on each side, the winner of that level gets the candies, the card is flipped over and the level is filled with candies equivalent to the level number.
Once one player has enough candies, in a particular candy colour, they get the prize associated with that colour. First player to three prizes wins.
Its a simple game but lots of strategy can be utilized.
In the predecessor, Balloon Cup, the numbers on the cards were more varied and larger. As well, you could lay cards on your opponents side at any time. You could also tie in a level in Balloon Cup to get the cubes while in Pinata you cannot. This made it a more heated game.
My wife prefers the art in Balloon Cup although I like the new version for its less varied card scores.
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