PLAYED
QUICKITY PICKITY
Flipping fun
Designer: Mashiu | Publisher: Oink Games
Quickity Pickity is a beguiling game. If I told you that it’s a simple matter of flipping tokens and making matching sets, you’d assume it was a game for kids only. It might even be considered a good one when I say that you have marketplace cards so each round has a different kind of scoring. Or a particularly nice to look at one as that there’s a little wooden stick to designate your area of the board (with no other discernible purpose).
But like the best games that Oink put out, Quickity Pickity really reaches into your brain and turns on the whisking function. All at once players flip over tokens in the centre of the table, hoping to make matching sets that will please the market. Each market card for the round will show players that they’ll get a certain number of points for certain set sizes – and even minus points for some. In one round, creating a set of two fruit might mean three points, in the next it might mean minus two.