WaterGame

By Adventerra Games
Price $24.95
Age 7+

WaterGame cleverly pits players for and against one another by giving them a common cause that, if neglected, becomes everyone's loss. Players move their tokens along the river on rolls of the die, gaining or losing water according to cards they pick up along the way. Those cards contain water-saving and water-wasting behaviors applicable to everyday life, information that affords players potentially habit-changing knowledge. The gloriously illustrated board is a masterpiece of playfulness. Its eye-catching visuals serve a variety of purposes such as keeping track of the communal water supply, a source to which players can turn when running low but that relies on voluntary donations to fend off depletion. Such donations tend to be made strategically by savvy players with their eyes firmly on the prize. For if any player arrives at the end with less than 10 gallons of water in supply, all players lose the game. And while that shared conservation-of-water objective is central to the gameplay, WaterGame serves it up with such an enjoyably entertaining touch that the foremost thing on players' minds following each game was how much fun they'd just had! For 3 to 4 players, ages 7 and up!