🐸 QUAGMIRE BY PERPLEXT GAMES 🐸
The battle for the bog has been a new addition to our table, and we are pleasantly surprised!
If you remember Chris Handy’s tiny BOG from the Pack O Game series, this is that same design fully realized in a bigger box. It’s light, snappy, and doesn’t take up a ton of space, but it feels like a proper, complete game.
This is great for a relaxed weeknight after work, or a quick game to kick off a longer board game night. It’s super easy to teach, but there’s enough strategy there to keep it interesting.
How it Plays 🐸
You’re moving frogs across a grid of lily pads, eating flies to refill your hand, and capturing other players’ frogs to score points. The real puzzle comes from trying to complete specific Frog Routes and creating Frog Formations.
On your turn you’ll do one of three actions;
– Play a frog to your shore
– Move one of your frogs, following the path on the card
– Discard & score a frog based on how many frogs are in the yellow dots
What we really like about it! 📣
Finding the perfect path to hop your frogs across the grid is a great little puzzle. The multi-use cards keep it interesting, figuring out if you should play a card now or hold onto it for a big end-game score.
It has a sweet spot of player interaction! Stealing a spot from someone else is satisfying, but it never feels overly mean.
The art by Magdalena Markowska is gorgeous, it looks so bright and clean on the table. It plays well with 2, 3, or 4 players and takes about 30 minutes, so we almost always end up playing a second game immediately.
Thanks to Perplext for sending us a copy to check out – our thoughts and opinions are always our own!
