Gingham (2025)

Overview

The race is on! Ants have discovered an abandoned picnic blanket overflowing with sweets, but there aren’t enough to go around for every colony. Gingham is a strategic game of confection connection, inspired by trick-taking mechanics. Players position their queens around the gingham picnic blanket and deploy ants to link sweets, claiming the stockpiles they create. The lead player determines which side of the board all players must use each round. The player who positions their queen closest to the star (in the most valuable spot of the led side) becomes the leader of the next round. Players then deploy their ants along the rows where they placed their queens, but there's a catch: ants cannot be placed beyond the stitch, and rows closer to the star offer fewer options. Will you prioritize a better position for next round or more flexibility for this one? By connecting matching sweet tokens and surrounding stockpiles, players score points while collecting sugar cubes to spend on powerful abilities. Stretch your ants across the blanket and claim the largest piles of sweets to prove your dominance as the pint-sized royalty! Gingham is the second release in Bitewing Games’ Travel Line, a series designed for quick, accessible play anywhere, with anyone.