Winter is snowflakes in a small box card game for two players that packs strategic competition and takes only 15 minutes to play. Does that sound like a cozy winter’s activity? Bring on the hot chocolate and get ready to engage in a unique head-to-head battle for the most snowflakes left standing - - or not yet melted. This is a quick game for two players in which they take turns placing cards depicting four snowflakes with two shades of blue on each card. Players first choose which snowflake color they are - - light blue or dark blue and take their nine matching snowflake tokens. Place the first card down to start and winter has begun! There are two phases to this game:
In phase one, players take turns placing snowflake cards strategically so that they have groups of four of their color in a square formation. The goal is to place as many of their matching snowflake tokens on these formations. Once the deck of cards runs out or any player has used all their tokens, the game moves to phase two.
Time to thaw!!! It might look like one player is in a prime position to win before the thaw but watch out - - anything can happen now. Players take turns performing one of three actions. 1. Move a card that has no tokens placed on it to another location that will form a square of your color and place a token, 2. Remove a card from the game that has no token and cannot be moved to form a square of your color or, 3. Remove one of your snowflake tokens. Play continues until one player has no remaining snowflake tokens on any card. The player left with at least one token in play wins the game! This card game is quick to set up, learn and play but you will enjoy playing it repeatedly as you try to master the best Winter Game strategy!