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Top 5 Tastiest Looking Board Games

SUMMER PAVILLION

Everyone bangs on about how pretty a game is in the same way. "The components are so well crafted", "the art style is so rich and thematic", “You can really see the aura of the game in its look”; this all misses the key factor in reviewing board game aesthetics and component quality: how tasty does it look?

Before I start rattling off board games, I'd like to thank my flatmate for the blog title suggestion and I would like to emphasise the following point: do not eat board game pieces. They may look tasty. They are not.

Wingspan

There's a reason that Wingspan is considered a modern classic. A tight system of interesting choices tied together by one of the most engaging decks of cards ever put to print, depicting delightful birds and even more delightful bird facts. You might be worried that I'm going to rave about how tasty all those rare, exotic birds look but no, it's all about the eggs. Of all the board games on this list, the eggs of Wingspan are the most dangerously close to the real thing, i.e. mini chocolate eggs. As Wyrms are now the new hotness thanks to Wyrmspan do I think those Wyrm eggs edge out Wingspan as the tastiest looking? While they have the same feel as the Wingspan eggs, and the splotches are perhaps more accurate to actual chocolate mini eggs, the clashing colours between the egg background and egg splotches make them too similar to that of poisonous frogs for them to rank high on the tasty scale.

Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra and Summer Pavilion

The Azul series of board games ranks as some of the most consistently tasty board games ever created. As such, I will cheat slightly and include two games in this section. The runner up for tastiest Azul is Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra. Granted, glass is not known for its taste (and certainly not its texture) but the glass pieces bear a striking resemblance to jelly cubes which arguably have the opposite texture and taste of glass and are quite frankly delicious. In first place we have Azul: Summer Pavilion. Even though in the game universe you are meticulously laying ceramic tiles down to make a summer pavilion for a Portuguese king, boy have ceramic tiles never looked so tasty. The light pastel colours give them a Starburst-esque quality, and the little imprints give them the aura of some exquisitely designed chocolate. Paradoxically, I don’t rate Azul: Master Chocolatier highly in terms of the tasty scale.

Bärenpark

Similar to Wingspan, don’t get the wrong idea. I am not saying that I want to tuck into a polar bear for dinner. Instead the tasty aspect of this game is about the number one form of potato: chips. Surprisingly, I am not referring to the chip kiosks on the food street tiles, although if one day I was to visit a bear park I would gladly buy some. Instead, draw your eyes to the Gobi bear enclosures and I dare anyone to disagree with me when I say that the ‘rocks’ look exactly like fish and chip shop chips.

Hallertau

Uwe Rosenberg. Let's be honest, he loves farming. And who can blame him, the man makes farming exciting. Because of this obsession, the amount of food based board game components is high in a Rosenberg game and thus we have a lot of contenders for the tastiest Rosenberg game. Most people would probably say A Feast For Odin for the simple reason that the game is based around the titular feast which funnily enough involves food. To that I say rubbish, the tastiest board game is actually Hallertau. The real life Hallertau region is obviously known worldwide as the “largest continuous hop-planting area in the world” and thus in Hallertau the board game you compete with other players to be the most prosperous beer-making town in Hallertau. Granted, most of the food being represented in the game you would not describe as “edible” but quite frankly it does not matter. The importance of a tasty looking board game is quite simply how tasty the components look. It doesn’t matter if these lovely looking blue pieces technically represent flax. If they look tasty, that’s all that matters to me.