Token Vessels Review

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If you are a gamer of a certain vintage, at some point in your gaming life, you got the scoop on silicone muffin cups as a great way to hold game components. I have a set of 20 or so, in five different colors, and while I have used them to bake muffins, mostly they serve as impromptu game-piece holders.

But spoiler warning folks because as of today, those muffin cups are being retired from their gaming usage and will only be used for cupcakes and muffins from now on. Because I have found Token Vessels. OMG! 

Token Vessels are a hybrid of a token storage bag and a tabletop token dispenser. They can do exactly what the muffin cups do, but so much more.

Depicted above are six of the small-sized token vessels, holding the same set of tokens as the muffin cups. These smaller vessels are about the same size as my larger muffin cups, but they provide greater visibility because the holes allow players to see through the sides. While I was generally able to match up the color of my tokens with my muffin cups, you can see I had to put gray envelope tokens into a red cup, which always rankles me a bit.

Now with a very neutral white color, it doesn’t really matter what color tokens go inside. But you might also notice the token vessels have a small metal circle attached by a string, and comes in five different colors, one of which is a shiny silver. This allowed me to mostly match the colors of my tokens with the vessel, but then to use the neutral metal when they did not. And I have plans to purchase some small circular stickers to deal with my residual OCD there.

This is just the beginning though. Because the token vessels are also much more flexible than normal silicone cups. The holes make them more like a net than a cup, and so