Money Buns

It’s a gluten free-for all! — Trade zealously, collect piles of pastries, win big!

Money Buns is carb-themed card game for 3-7 players that takes under 10 minutes to learn and plays in about 30 to 45 rowdy minutes.

As the carb-loving owner of a small bakery, you yearn to make it big selling piles of pastries. But while you collect carbs in front of you, the real action in Money Buns happens above the table between the players. Trade zealously or you might get stuck taking your buns out of the oven before they are ready!

Buns come off your conveyor belt every turn whether you want them or not so even the most timid players will be trading away with enthusiasm.

Players each start off with a hand of carbs and are working to build up collections of the same carb on the table in front of them. The more copies of a carb in a batch, the more money the baker makes when they sell. Some carbs are rarer than others, and as such, they will earn a baker more money per card.

The catch is that players only have 3 ovens to bake carbs in, and you can't put your ginger snaps in with your challah bread, so when new carbs come off a player's conveyor belt, they might have to toss out a batch before it can be sold for profit. To avoid this fate, players can trade with each other during their turn, often bluffing or hiding info about the most valuable carbs they may have to offer.

Each turn the active player adds carbs from their hand into their ovens, adds new carbs into the mix from the draw deck, and optionally trades with other players. If desired, the player may also cash in their batches for money to make room for a new carb collection in that oven and to inch closer to victory.

The goal of the game is to be the player with the most money after three rounds of play.

-description from designer