Breakfast Games
Games About Breakfast, and Another Giveaway
Breakfast is the best meal. This is an objective fact.
There are two games about breakfast foods that are shockingly good and well worth your time.
Monster Crunch: The Breakfast Battle Game
Monster Crunch: The Breakfast Battle Game is a card game based on the General Mills cereals Count Chocula, Boo Berry, Frankenberry, Fruity Yummy Mummy, and Fruit Brute.1
Each player takes control of one cereal.
The game plays like the card games President, Haggis, and Tichu, but much simpler than those games.
In Monster Crunch, the goal is to get rid of as many cards as possible over three rounds. The lead player plays a single card of any value between 1 and 12. Subsequent players must play a card of equal or higher value or must pass. If a player passes, they receive a milk token. Milk tokens can be spent to combine cards of the same value or a run of cards. The value of all cards played is what must be matched by the next player. For example, if a player discards two milk tokens and plays three 8 cards, the next player must play 24 or more points.
Each cereal also has two special powers that can be used over the course of the game. The powers are simple but can be game changers if used at the right time.
The game is simple but engaging, and the aesthetics are incredible. The box looks like a cereal box, and the cards look like cereal and are placed into a cereal bowl.
Easy enough for anyone to pick up, and feels classic, like a game that’s existed for years.
Pop-Tarts
Pop-Tarts is a game where you try to collect different flavors of Pop-Tarts to collect specific score cards. For example, a card might have a cookies and cream, a maple and brown sugar, and a strawberry pop tart on it.
Some of the score cards require that a pop tart be either frozen or toasted. Depending on where you collect a pop tart card, you place it in a freezer or a toaster.
To play the game, players have a hand of action cards that will manipulate a line of Pop-Tarts cards. At the end of a players’ turn, that player collects the last card in the line of Pop-Tarts. Players use their action cards to try and get their preferred Pop-Tart to the end of the line.
The game is a race to score thirty points. It’s a short but punchy game.
And like Monster Crunch, the aesthetics are fantastic. The box looks like a box of Pop-Tarts, and the backs of the Pop-Tarts cards look like a package of Pop-Tarts.
Stranger Things: Eggo Card Game
One other game should be mentioned, simply because of how cool it looks.
The Stranger Things Eggo Card Game is very similar to UNO, so if you like UNO, you’ll probably like it. If UNO does nothing for you, you may want to skip this one.
I only mention it because the cards look like Eggo waffles, and the draw piles are put vertically into a toaster.
I mean, come on. That’s incredible.
The publisher of the game didn’t need to do that. People would buy the game if it were just made of regular cards.
But the game gets 1000 bonus points for the aesthetics.2
I have a copy of Pop-Tarts to give away. Subscribe and you’ll automatically be entered to win. Winner will be chosen on Sunday morning. USA shipping only unfortunately (international shipping is expensive…)
Fruit Brute and Fruity Yummy Mummy haven’t been around since the 80’s and I have no idea why. General Mills, bring them back.
Points are meaningless.