Veggies Review

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We review Veggies, a quick playing card game published by Devir Games. In Veggies, players are trying to create sets of fruits and vegetables for a fruit stand.

It’s Veggies! A quick-playing card game designed by Jog Kung and published by Devir Games. I’m a little shaky on the history of this game. It appears to have been based on the two-player card game Small Warehouse, but I’m not 100% sure. Anyway, in this card game, you’ll be trying to build out a produce stand with different types of food (and rats apparently). The game promises a short play time with accessible mechanics. Did they succeed? Let’s find out.

Veggies is a pattern-building, card-layering game for 2-4 players that takes about 10 minutes to play. Veggies play best with 3-4 players.

In Veggies, each player starts with a single card in their produce stand. On their turn, they must play a new card, either the card from their hand or one of the 3 face-up cards in the market. New cards must either be placed orthogonally adjacent to an existing card or layered on top of a card.

The goal is to create areas of similar types of produce. Cards may also contain empty pallets (which score no points) or rats, which lose you 2 points per rat. Turns go by in this manner until each player has played their 8th card.

For scoring, each player figures out which type of produce they have the largest area of. Then EVERY player scores that produce type by multiplying their largest area times the total number of areas of that type. Most points wins.

My first thought while playing Veggies was why the heck is this game called Veggies. There are 5 types of produce in this game and only two of them are vegetables (strawberries, bananas, grapes, carrots, mushrooms). And this isn’t