Before my family cruise vacation, I made an order for several new Button Shy wallet games. I looked for a combination of games I could play with my son on the ship, plus some solo games that I could play in moments of downtime. Wallet games are great for travel (they take up very little space)!
Let's take a look at what I picked out to buy:
Glass Garden (with Centerpieces expansion)
This is a solo game about assembling a terrarium while an annoying pest tries to destroy your work. I haven't tried adding in the expansion content yet, but I can say that the base game is a fun puzzle that definitely takes some practice to master!
A Nice Cuppa (with Expansion Collection)
In another solo game, in this cozy game, you are trying to make a perfect cup of tea while forgetting about your worries. I'm not a hot tea drinker, but I appreciate the vibe that this game is going for, though the actual gameplay loop is fairly thinky! So far, I've found the "Casual or Standard" mode to be easy, but the "Ceremonial or Hard" mode has been much more difficult. Much like with Glass Garden, I think this game will get much easier the more I play it.
Making Manhattan
This is a two-player game about building (you guessed it), Manhattan...or at least, building your little individual portion of the city. Every card has three possible placement locations, and depending on where you place the card in your 3x2 grid, it will trigger a different scoring criterion. My son and I played this several times on the cruise ship, and I'll say his young brain seemed to do much better remembering all of his scoring goals! I enjoyed this one quite a bit!
Lands of Amazement Expansion Collection
I already owned (and enjoyed) the Lands of Amazement game, so I decided to order the additional content that I didn't already own. That said, I didn't end up playing Lands of Amazement while on vacation, so I can't speak to whether or not the Expansion Collection was a worthwhile purchase yet!
Overall, I think I chose quite well. I enjoyed the three new games that I bought, and I'm fairly confident that the expansion content will add more life into each game once the puzzle starts to feel a bit "solved." That said, of the three new games, I think the two-player Making Manhattan game is my current favorite!
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