They thread the suburbs like veins, connecting houses, allotments, playgrounds and roads. Across the four seasons, create the most vibrant and flourishing Twittens before teatime in this gentle game of tile laying and luck pushing.
Designed by Paul Stapleton, Illustrated by Tristam Rossin
1-4 players, age 10+, 20-30 minutes
Although Twittens comes with some built in modules you can mix into your game (called Detours), it's recommended to use the basic set up for your first few games, which looks like this: a deck of Twitten tiles, and 4 Bimble card decks - one for each of the four seasons. You'll also need a page from the scorepad.
On your turn, you do 1 of the following:
* Choose the top tile on either face up stack.
* Draw 2 tile from the Twitten deck. Choose 1, add the other to the top of either stack, face up
* Choose your Favourite Place tile.
The tile you chose is then added to your Twitten. You'll be scoring by placing various elements such as roads, streetlights, playgrounds, trees and wildlife. Some of these elements score from being adjacent (such as trees adjacent to allotments, or a railway station that can reach wildlife).
You'll also score points for the houses in your Twitten but be careful - you don't want to exceed your house limit. If you feel you're getting close and don't want to risk it, you can choose to go home for tea after adding a tile to your Twitten.
If you do exceed your house limit, you must go home for tea, and don't score points for your houses this season. The stakes couldn't be higher.
A lot of the points you score will come from completing Bimble cards. At the start of each season you draw 3 Bimble cards. You can keep as many as you wish, but you must keep at least 1. If you can complete these during the season you'll score the points shown on the card. If you fail to complete them, you'll lose 4 points instead.
This Bimble card has been completed by placing these 2 bends next to each other.
This Bimble card has been completed by placing a school adjacent to a dewpond (the one to its left, with a newt on it). Note the dewpond on the other side of the Twitten path ISN'T adjacent, as the path, with its bordering hedges, walls and fences, breaks adjacency between the different elements.
When all players have gone home for tea, you each score the points for your Twitten, then set up the next season. When all 4 seasons have been played, the winner is the player with the highest total.