Smoothies

About this board game

Smoothies is a roll-and-write game for 1–4 players that takes around 30 minutes. With a van full of fruit and a queue of thirsty customers, you must create the healthiest and most scrumptious smoothies while aiming for the highest score.

At the heart of the game are fruit dice and two blender boxes. Roll all the fruit into the blenders, then choose a combination from one of them that lets you mark the most valuable spaces on your sheet. Your decision has an important consequence: you can use only one blender, while the fruit left in the other becomes available to your opponents.

Every choice can contribute to your final score in different ways. Plan your fruit selections carefully, serve customers with the ingredients they require, and avoid filling the blenders beyond their useful capacity.

• Earn points for using each type of fruit a certain number of times.
• Score for every customer who tastes all the required ingredients.
• Compete to use more oranges and lemons than the other players.
• Lose points for customers you do not serve and for saturating the blenders.

The dice create changing combinations, while the shared availability of the unused blender keeps your choices connected to the other players’ opportunities. You must weigh immediate benefits against the fruit you leave behind, looking for combinations that improve your own score without giving away too much value.

In Smoothies, the player who gathers the most points by the end of the game wins. Its compact roll-and-write format combines resource selection, customer requirements, and a race for fruit-based scoring goals in a flavorful tabletop challenge.