Problem Picnic: Attack of the Ants • Action-packed dicefest!
Created by Kids Table Board Gaming
It's a perfect day for a picnic! The park fills with families, spreading their blankets, and setting out colourful plates loaded with delicious treats.
But there has never been a picnic without uninvited guests ... ANTS!!
In Problem Picnic: Attack of the Ants, players are competing ant colonies trying to steal the best plates of food from the picnic blankets. In this 2-4 player, dice-rolling dexterity game, the dice are your ants. Roll them onto the picnic cards, trying to get the most ants onto the foods and plate colours you want. Different custom dice at your disposal represent your industrious Workers, speedy Scouts, and sturdy Soldiers. At the end of the day, the colony that has arranged their stolen plates to best satisfy the whims of the Queen will earn the most points and win the game!
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Stretch Goals, New Card Art, and Science Wide Open
over 7 years ago
– Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 03:30:34 AM
Hello my Army of Ants,
We find ourselves at over 540 backers and over 105% funded. It happened so fast on Thursday, I couldn't believe it actually happened. Now that the dust has settled, we're gearing up for a fantastic end to the campaign. In my experience, the last 48 hours are as significant as the first 48 hours. That being said, we're really looking forward to it!
New Round Card Images on Board Game Geek
Click on these new images, and thumb, thumb, thumb! If we get enough thumbs, these images will get onto the Boardgamegeek front page and lure more backers our way, driving us ever closer to those sweet sweet Stretch goals!
Only you can help us with these!! In both cases, we're really close. Let's make them happen... you'll add free stuff your game with a few clicks... who doesn't like free stuff?
Campaign Stretch Goals
As of right now, we're about $900 USD from our first stretch goal. We have no doubt that we'll make it. But let's try to push them a little harder!
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Add more to your pledge, get more for yourself at the same time, and get us closer to our Stretch Goals
If you are in Canada or the US, add Foodfighters or an awesome t-shirt to your pledge. Each are $29CAD and these upgrades do not involve any extra shipping.
If you are anywhere in the world, we still have a few Golden Ant pledge levels left. For only $75USD, you will get yourself a Deluxe version of Problem Picnic: Attack of the Ants, which includes this wide assortment of advancements:
The box top will have shiny gold foil logos
The box will be personally signed by both the amazing Scott Almes and Josh Cappel
There will be an exclusive Problem Picnic art print signed by Josh Cappel included in each Deluxe edition
Upgraded cards! The Picnic, Round, Scoring, Puddle, and Anthill cards will get a pp lamination and linen finish for luxurious feel
The Reward and Tie tokens will have a shiny gold foil finish
The Puddle card will have a metallic blue foil finish
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Army Ants, I'm taking off my publisher hat and putting on my Science and Math teacher hat to talk to you about a campaign that we have recently backed. Sometimes you just fall in love with a company because they create products that speak to you. When I first came across Genius Games, I was blown away by their ability to publish games that are educational AND truly fun. That is a hard thing to do! Trust me, I'm always working on it. Genius has created some incredible games. But what has blown me away recently is their latest venture in publishing, Science Wide Open: Children's Books about Women in Science. What an incredible thing Genius Games is doing here. Focusing on women in Science History is so important. As they themselves say, they are "transforming the narrative surrounding girls and science". I have backed this project for myself as a parent and as a teacher. We think that you should too!
Let's make this happen Ants!!!
Until next time, go get that food!
Helaina and the KTBG Family
Last 48 Hours, Social Stretch Goals, Campaign Stretch Goals and More
over 7 years ago
– Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 03:30:11 AM
Hello my Army of Ants,
We've made it! We're fully funded, and more! This update sees us at over 560 backers and over 110% funded!! Woooohoooo, party people! Well, at least I'm partying.
We've Still Got Some Work to Do!
I know you guys can get us to two new, backers only, Social Stretch Goals. Only a few more Twitter followers and a few more Problem Picnic Likes on Facebook. Click on the images below to take you right there. And don't be shy! Share the links with your friends, colleagues, cousin ... Even if they aren't backers, they can still like our Social pages and help to get you these two cards:
They're real, and they are close! I truly believe that we can blast through them! But backers, we can't do this without you. Please share this link (http://kck.st/2dgKUoo) with your family and friends that you know will like Problem Picnic. It is the only way!!
Speaking of Stretch Goals, Blue Beard Entertainment's Dracula's Feast has blown through several of their Stretch Goals. It's a 10-minute social deduction game for 4-8 monsters. The game features thematic art and 12 roles with unique abilities! Check it out!
Let's make this happen Ants!!!
Until next time, go get that food!
Helaina and the KTBG Family
Backer to Stacker
over 7 years ago
– Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 08:53:29 AM
Hello my Army of Ants,
What a whirlwind the last two weeks have been! We are now over 425 backers and more than 85% funded. And we still have 11 days left. Let's get to those stretch goals!!
The only way we are going to do it is with your help:
Here is something else we need your help with. There will be 24 dice, of four different colours in the game. We are having a hard time narrowing the colour choices down. We are aware of red-green colour blindness, so we've shown you what the same colours will look like to someone who has red-green colour blindness. Here are the options:
Please help us choose colours by picking 1 die from each of the four columns on the left. Post your choices in the comments of the update. Here are my picks: Goldenrod, Pond, Orchid, and Grass.
P.S. Something really weird happened while I was putting together this update. Two text graphics showed up and I can't get the following one out of the update. It's a Kickstarter glitch. I have contacted them, but of course, they only work during the week. I'll have to wait until Tuesday or Wednesday to find out what happened. I was going to hold off on the update, but I want to keep in touch with you and let you know what is happening every step of the way. So, there you are.
What? We're Funded? Just Like That?
over 7 years ago
– Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 05:16:55 PM
Hello my Army of Ants,
We'll it wasn't "just like that" because you had to do a lot of hard work to make this happen. So, thank you, thank you, thank you!! From the bottom of our hearts, thank you! Josh, Scott, and I are over the moon!
Now on to Our Stretch Goals
Don't forget to Like the Problem Picnic: Attack of the Ants on Facebook to get the beautiful backers only Second Chance Round Card. Once we get to 350 Facebook Likes, we'll include it in your game.
Also, by becoming a @KidsTableBG follower on Twitter, you are getting us one follower closer to the stunning Blue Bird Round card, also for backers of Problem Picnic: Attack of the Ants, only.
So, Here's What's Happening ...
Once we reach $22,500CAD, you'll be getting yourselves gorgeous Round CardsAND the matching punch board tokens. Trust me, you need these tokens!
Speaking of Round Cards ...
You might have noticed the beautiful Blue Bird Round Card and the Second Chance Round Card both have very different art than the existing Round Cards.
We are very confident that we'll reach that first Stretch goal... when we do reach it, that means that the Round cards in many cases don't need to be used as gameplay components any more, since we get those awesome tokens. So, Josh has been working hard on creating beautiful art for the Round cards to replace the functional versions in the prototype. Like this sketch on the right:
But Remember ...
We can't reach these stretch goals without you sharing the campaign with your friends. Find one person that you think will love Problem Picnic: Attack of the Ants, and give them this link: http://kck.st/2dgKUoo.
