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Gingham

Gingham

2025·Robert Hovakimyan

Videos
7
Creators
4

Mainly how-to-play and playthroughs. Gingham is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 2 how-to-play guides, 2 recorded sessions, 1 unboxings, and 2 other videos.

2 - 4 players
20 - 40 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting

From BoardGameGeek

The race is on! Ants have found an abandoned picnic blanket ripe with sweets, but there aren't enough for every colony... Gingham is a tricky game of confection connection. In this game, players position their queens around the gingham picnic blanket and deploy their ants to connect sweets and claim the stockpiles they create. The lead player determines which edge of the playing area all players must play on each round. Everyone then places their queen next to a row on this edge, then deploys an ant into the row where they place their queen. The catch is that you cannot deploy your ant beyond the stitch in the blanket, and the rows closer to the star at the end of the row offer fewer options. That said, whoever places their queen closest to the star becomes the leader of the next round and places their queen next to a row on any other edge of the playing area; players take turns in order of the queens in the previous row. Do you opt for a better turn order position for next round or more flexibility for ant placement this round? By connecting matching sweet tokens with a line of your ants and by surrounding and claiming stockpiles, players score points. Sweet tokens are stacked atop one another after connecting, with sugar cubes being left behind; place next to a sugar cube to claim it as they can be spent on powerful abilities. Stretch your ants across the blanket, and grab the biggest piles of sweets to prove your pint-sized royalty! Gingham is the second title in Bitewing Games' Travel Line. This line of games is focused on being supremely easy to play with anyone, anywhere. -description from the publisher

Gingham

Watch first

Learn to play

How To Play Gingham (in a nutshell)3:58

How To Play Gingham (in a nutshell)

Bitewing Games

Bitewing Games

Watch it played

Gingham - Teach & Playthrough33:01

Gingham - Teach & Playthrough

Before You Play

Before You Play

Which Gingham video should I watch?

Gingham has 7 videos from 4 creators: 2 how-to-play guides, 2 playthroughs, 1 unboxing and 2 other videos. They date from April to December 2025.

To learn the rules, start with "How To Play Gingham (in a nutshell)" by Bitewing Games, which runs 4 min.

To see it played, watch "Gingham - Teach & Playthrough" by Before You Play, one of 2 playthroughs.

If you like it, try Moonrollers, Fractured Sky: Awakening, Bebop and Shuffle and Swing, also by Robert Hovakimyan.

All videos

Gingham - Teach & PlaythroughPlaythrough33:01

Gingham - Teach & Playthrough

Before You Play

Before You Play

Gingham Playthrough with Bitewing GamesPlaythrough30:06

Gingham Playthrough with Bitewing Games

Bitewing Games

Bitewing Games

How To Play Gingham (in a nutshell)How to play3:58

How To Play Gingham (in a nutshell)

Bitewing Games

Bitewing Games

Unboxing GinghamUnboxing5:55

Unboxing Gingham

Bitewing Games

Bitewing Games

How to Play GinghamHow to play7:31

How to Play Gingham

Bitewing Games

Bitewing Games

Kyle Spackman on bringing the convention heat to Bitewing - TCbH PAX InterviewInterview4:21

Kyle Spackman on bringing the convention heat to Bitewing - TCbH PAX Interview

The Cardboard Herald

The Cardboard Herald

Peeking Behind the Gingham Curtain: A Chat with Robert HovakimyanInterview34:35

Peeking Behind the Gingham Curtain: A Chat with Robert Hovakimyan

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Bitewing Games
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The Cardboard Herald
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About Gingham

From BoardGameGeek:

The race is on! Ants have found an abandoned picnic blanket ripe with sweets, but there aren't enough for every colony... Gingham is a tricky game of confection connection. In this game, players position their queens around the gingham picnic blanket and deploy their ants to connect sweets and claim the stockpiles they create. The lead player determines which edge of the playing area all players must play on each round. Everyone then places their queen next to a row on this edge, then deploys an ant into the row where they place their queen. The catch is that you cannot deploy your ant beyond the stitch in the blanket, and the rows closer to the star at the end of the row offer fewer options. That said, whoever places their queen closest to the star becomes the leader of the next round and places their queen next to a row on any other edge of the playing area; players take turns in order of the queens in the previous row. Do you opt for a better turn order position for next round or more flexibility for ant placement this round? By connecting matching sweet tokens with a line of your ants and by surrounding and claiming stockpiles, players score points. Sweet tokens are stacked atop one another after connecting, with sugar cubes being left behind; place next to a sugar cube to claim it as they can be spent on powerful abilities. Stretch your ants across the blanket, and grab the biggest piles of sweets to prove your pint-sized royalty! Gingham is the second title in Bitewing Games' Travel Line. This line of games is focused on being supremely easy to play with anyone, anywhere. -description from the publisher

Designer

Robert Hovakimyan

Artist

A. Giroux

Publisher

Bitewing Games

Categories

Abstract StrategyAnimals

Mechanics

Auction / BiddingNetwork and Route BuildingPattern BuildingTurn Order Manipulation
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