Some of the best two-player games are the ones you can teach in a minute and finish in ten, and Le Chocolat fits neatly in that pocket. Published by Allplay, it is a tiny-box game about carving up a chocolate bar and claiming the tastiest pieces before your opponent does, and it is reaching wider shelves this July.
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Start organising for freeSetup is as simple as it sounds. You shuffle a stack of chocolate tiles into a grid, then on your turn you slice that grid into two along a single straight line and claim one chunk of three tiles or fewer for yourself. Allplay calls it an "I Split, I Choose" twist, because you both make the cut and take a piece, so every slice is a gamble between grabbing the squares you want now and leaving your opponent a board they can pounce on next. Variable scoring cards decide which combinations of flavours are worth chasing, so no two games reward the same greedy cuts.
At roughly the price of an actual bar of posh chocolate, it is the kind of filler that lives in a bag or coat pocket for the pub, the commute, or the gap between heavier games. It plays in about ten minutes and suits ages seven and up, so it works as an easy family pick as much as a quick duel between two adults.
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