Muffin Time First Impressions

Muffin time is a random card game.

A terrible random card game.

Muffin Time is a chaotic card game with more twists and turns than you can shake a spork at! Battle your friends, family, and hyper-intelligent pets by drawing and playing from a deck of unique cards that’ll either help you, thwart others, or mix things up for the sheer hell of it! 

Muffin Time Game Play

TLDR You play cards to draw cards and make your opponents discard cards with the goal to have 10 cards in hand at the start of your turn.

Theme

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

Setup

Shuffle and deal.

Components & Artwork

Standard cards. The box is a cube and more than double the size of the cards which didn’t need to happen at all.

I love the ASDF very simple art style, it deserves a better game than this.

Ease of Teaching

May lay a trap then either draw or play a card. There, I taught you the whole game.

Muffin Time Summary

There is a tonne of games available where you play random cards and eventually someone wins.

Fluxx springs to mind but even that game has some form of tactical play. There are other ‘play and hope’ games like Find the Pickle and Chicken Time Warp but at least these move towards the end game.

That’s the problem with Muffin Time. Making players discard cards takes cards out of the game which prevents players from getting to 10 in hand. I’d want to see more ‘steal’ card effects rather than ‘discard’. You still prevent the target from winning but the cards stay in play so the lead shifts in a more positive way.

Also, a lot of the cards depend on the actions of the other players. So now I know to not touch the rulebook, cough, be sarcastic, sing or generally have any kind of fun while playing the game. I won’t even say hi to anyone or mentioned their name because the game punishes you for it.

But no problem, I will not be playing this again… 40 minute play time… awful.

Jesta ThaRogue