Have you ever wanted to play a game about making a sandwich? No, I am not talking about a game about fulfilling customer orders and running a restaurant. Instead, a simple game about collecting the ingredients that you need to make a sandwich. Sounds boring, right? What if a twist on the game is that you could hinder your opponents from making their sandwiches?
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Short Explanation of How to Play
In Hoagie, players need to make a sandwich by collecting and playing: (1) Two pieces of bread, (2) meat, (3) cheese, and (4) lettuce. There are cards that have rotten versions of these ingredients that players can play on their opponents sandwiches, slowing them down and making them get another regular ingredient card to get rid of the rotten ingredient. Once a player collects all of the ingredients for their sandwich, they win! A variant for younger kids would be to take out the rotten ingredients and only use the regular ingredients.
Why it Works/Doesn't Work For Our Family
What Worked: This game is nice because it is simple, and it is short. The mechanics of the game (collecting the components of the sandwich and giving bad components to your opponents) is simple and since the cards are pictures and not text, even young kids can play it.
What Was Challenging: The only challenge I find with this type of game is the replayability. As kids get older, this is one they will likely age out of. It has some strategy, so it can be fun to figure out how to outmaneuver your opponent, but that strategy is limited with only a few options of cards to play. You either try to work toward completing your sandwich, or block your opponent. If you have more players this is more interesting as you figure out who to block in certain situations, but a game with only two people can be very simplistic.
Why it Works/Doesn't Work With Friends
I wouldn’t pull this out as a gaming group game. This one is a family game with the young kids.
Teacher's Corner
The educational benefit of this game would be in teaching recognition to young kids including pre-readers. Helping them realize what they need to complete their sandwich can help them with planning and preparation, but in a simple, low stakes way that isn’t very confusing.
Overall opinion, rating, and recommendation
6 year old son - My son loved playing this game. He particularly loved it when he could play the spoiled food cards on top of my sandwich to block my progress toward completing my sandwich.
9 year old daughter - My daughter had fun the first few times we played this game, but it did not take long for her to request that we play other games instead. She lost interest in the game.
Mine - I will rate this game Casual Family. It is a simple game that works well for families who just want to play a short game or want younger kids to be able to be involved in the gameplay. It is not a very long lasting or involved game, so people looking for more length, depth, or challenge should probably look elsewhere.
Games with similarities with this one at each rating level:
Casual Family: Scram / Taco vs Burrito / Racko / Water Works
Heavy Family: -
Casual Adult: - Timeline
Heavy Adult: -
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