Baobab

Players build a precarious tree by drawing and placing cards from a facedown personal deck without looking. Each turn a player declares they'll play 1–3 cards, then reveals them one by one and follows the placement instructions printed on each card: foliage can be placed anywhere, flowers and monkeys must overhang the edge, the snake fits between two cards, the toucan is tossed from a short distance, the leopard is dropped from above, the bat must be dropped with eyes closed, and the chameleon copies the previous card. If any cards fall while adding to the tree, those fallen cards and any unplaced cards from that turn go to the active player’s penalty pile. The game ends when a player plays their last card; remaining deck and penalty cards are tallied and the lowest total wins.

Players: 2–4 best 4
Playing time: 20 min
Age: 6+
Complexity: 1.2 / 5