06/17/2026
Who doesn't love playing games with loved ones? This is a perfect game to put on your coffee table. Check out Bread & Milk from Gray Dog Games and all of their offerings including Bread & Milk and Hand & Foot remastered!
๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ & ๐ ๐ถ๐น๐ธ (Gray Dog Games)
Thematically this is a game we really ought to have featured in the depth of winter. Still, winter will come round again in due course... The premise of this light, tongue-in-cheek set collection card game is the mad panic buying that besets supermarkets when the weather forecast is for heavy snow and everyone wants to stock up and hunker down.
Bread & Milk is designed by Bill Diener with some great cartoon art from Oksana Mykytiuk. It's published by Gray Dog Games. With a hand size always of five cards, the 2-4 players are each turn drawing a card and playing a card to their supermarket tableau or for its effect. To be able to play a Check Out card you need first to fufil the requirements of having in your tableau eight Aisles (six in a four-player game) and at least two Bread and two Milk cards. As you might expect from the panic buying theme, there's a strong 'take that' element because you can play Steal cards to take an Aisle or Food card from another player's tableau and you can play Obstacle cards to limit an opponent's actions until they are able to play a Manager card.
And even when you meet all the requirements and play a Check Out card, you haven't necessarily won the game... You draw one of the three Exit cards: only one of them confirms the arrival of blizzard conditions and gives you the win; the other two show the storm hasn't arrived and so the game continues. Each turn your one-in-three chance of claiming victory means that other players still have a chance to catch up, particularly as you can no longer play any 'take that' cards once you've played your Check Out.
Tho' it's a 'take that' game where players will inevitably be trying to sabotage each other's progress, the humorous theme and presentation means this isn't ever likely to turn into a grudge game. It's all good-natured family-friendly fun, and the end-game Exit card draw gives an added injection of excitement into this filler-length game; playable in around 20 minutes. And you don't need to be snowed in to enjoy the game.
