3, 2, 1 Piñata! Game Review

As I do from time to time, I enlist the help of my children to cover new games here at Meeple Mountain.

When the new family-weight card game 3, 2, 1 Piñata! arrived at the house, my eight-year-old son saw me place it on the table and immediately wanted to jump in. My wife, remembering how much fun we had with the similarly-titled light party game Piñata Blast, was game to try this one too. In a rare feat, I got a new game to the table the literal second it arrived at my home.

I’m going to take the high road where possible here and say that the initial excitement did not match our feelings about the gameplay, and that persisted during a subsequent play with both my son and their 11-year-old sibling. I think the reason for that is simple: 3, 2, 1 Piñata! ultimately wasn’t that much fun.

“For the Third Time, The Count is Six!!”

3, 2, 1 Piñata! is a 2-5 player set collection game. During setup and to start each of their turns, a player has a hand of five cards, a mix of “count” cards and “utility” cards. In a round, the game asks players to remember an imaginary starting count…

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