Huge fun in a tiny box!

Rafter Five is one of the 2 Oink games we bought at UKGE'24 . It's a dexterity game which we don't own many of, but we decided we needed this because it looked so funny. 😄

The game is played on the box itself, where you put the 5 meeples: the rafters. Then you just spread out cards around the box to act as the sea - these will be the plank cards that you draw to add to the raft.

Gameplay is very simple: 🧐 on your turn you have to lift up a meeple, put a plank card on the raft overlaying another plank card, then put the meeple on it. You have to deftly weigh down cards so nothing topples. To end your turn you put a treasure chest on the plank.

Whenever the precariously constructed mess of cards topples, the player who did it has to collect all the chests.
The goal is to get rid of all your treasure chests, or alternatively whoever collects 5 chests loses. And funnily in this game there is only ever one loser, everyone else wins. 😅

As you might imagine, stacking cards without knocking stuff off gets hard fast, especially with the raft (box) being so small. Overall I think this is a fun little package, something you'd expect from an Oink game, and I love all the little meeples! 😍