Junk Drawer Review

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We review Junk Drawer, a quick playing board game published by 25th Century Games. In Junk Drawer, players are trying to place polyomino shaped tiles into spaces as efficiently as possible.

Americans love their stuff. There’s a whole industry set up to hold the stuff that doesn’t fit in your home. There’s even a company that makes storage units that can be delivered so you don’t have to transport the stuff you plan to store off-site.

But, no matter how much decluttering someone does, there will always be one (or more) drawers that just hold all those things that you need so you can’t box them up and send it to Public Storage or too small to justify doing so. Those items get tossed in the junk drawer and today we’re going to judge each other’s organizational skills while playing the game Junk Drawer by David Smith with art by Asha Farmer and published by 25th Century games.

Junk Drawer is a 1-4 player game where you’re trying to get your organization on in your junk drawer by playing polyominos onto your player board and scoring the most points by probably not filling your drawer.

At the start of the game four organizational goal cards are placed on a board in the center of the table with colored borders representing each of the four containers in your junk drawer. There are Easy, Medium, and Hard cards to choose from and these set the scoring for each of the four compartments you’re organizing. To start a round, lay out four item cards face down.

These goal cards will score points for things like having the edges filled, not touching the edges, or having specific gaps. Each one shows an example making it easy to decipher.

Each turn, flip the first face-down card which shows an item. Each player places that polyomino in