Pinched!

About this board game

Pinched! is a 2025 board game for 2–5 players, played in about 60 minutes, where rival burglars compete to steal and sell the most valuables.

In a world where the wealthy flaunt their possessions, you practice what you prefer to call Wealth Redistribution. Burglary may sound harsh, but pinching valuables is your specialty—and your so-called friends are just as skilled.

Each turn, one player becomes The Mastermind, planning a supposedly perfect and infallible heist. While the Mastermind prepares, the other burglars try to work out where the break-in will happen.

• Mastermind: Plan the heist and aim to keep the valuables at the chosen location for yourself.
• Rival burglars: Guess the destination and show up at the right place to pinch valuables from the heist.
• Winning objective: Steal and sell the most valuables, redistributing more wealth than anyone else.

If The Mastermind manages to go alone, they take all the valuables at that location for themselves. If the other burglars guess correctly, they can arrive at the scene and claim some of the valuables from the Mastermind’s heist.

That creates a contest of planning, deduction, and opportunism as every player seeks the best chance to profit. In Pinched!, a successful heist is only part of the challenge—you must also stay ahead of the other burglars in town.