Flapjack Flipout Review

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We review Flapjack Flipout, a dexterity board game published by Mind the Gap Studios. In Flapjack Flipout, players are flipping pancakes trying to make matches to the current order card.

Every Saturday morning when I ask my 4 year old daughter what she wants for breakfast, 9 times out of 10 she says, “Pancakes.” (The 10th time she says “chicken nuggets.”) And after 4 years of being a regular pancake chef, I consider myself somewhat of an expert flapjack flipper.

So whena copy of Flapjack Flipout rolled up to BGQ HQ, I figured I’d be a natural. It’s a dexterity game (a favorite of mine) that also mixes in some pattern matching and memory elements. Time to fire up our griddles as we take a look at this tile flipping game.

Like most dexterity games, Flapjack Flipout is pretty easy to learn. Each player grabs a spatula and the pancake tiles are spread out on the table face down. The bell is placed in the middle and you are ready to go. A player flips over an order card, shouts “Order Up” and all players simultaneously start grabbing pancake tiles to flip.

The flipping rules are pretty straightforward. You need to put the pancake face down on your spatula and flip it so it (ideally) lands face up on your spatula. It’s then placed facedown in a pile in front of you. If it falls off and hits the table, it’s removed from the round (no three-second rule here).

Once you think you’ve got all the pancakes for the order card, you smack the bell with your spatula and yell “Order In”. If you are right, you claim the card as a point. If you wrong, you are out of the round, and the remaining players can use the pancakes you did get correct to fill the order. The first player to four points wins.

Flapjack Flipout arrived just in time to