Fit to Print

Why Fit to Print.

Fit to Print is a newspaper game in two halves. In the first, everyone grabs tiles from the middle of the table at the same time, flipping over articles, photographs and adverts and trying to collect a mix that will make a good front page. In the second, everyone lays out their page on their own board, fitting the tiles together like a puzzle, and the scoring rewards a balanced paper: happy and sad stories in proportion, photos next to the right articles, adverts paying the bills. The real-time grab is loud and a little chaotic, and the layout phase is quiet and thoughtful, and the swing between the two is what makes people ask to play again. The illustrations, by the artist behind Everdell, are the kind children pull the box out for on their own. It scales from one to six, and it is one of the few games that is genuinely good at six because the frantic part gets better with a crowd. The rules take ten minutes and a first game thirty. Players who dislike real-time games will not be converted by this one, and the scoring has a few small rules that trip up a first play. For a family or a holiday table that wants something with more decisions than a party game and less weight than a strategy game, it sits in exactly the right place.

No paid placement. No sponsorship. We chose it on merit. The Amazon link funds the lights - if you'd rather buy direct from a local game store, find one via BoardGameGeek.