Tea for Two Review

I have said it on here multiple times, but my wife and I are always looking for new two-player games to play at home, and while we’ve been playing a bunch of them over the past few weeks, Tea for 2 is one that gets onto the table again and again. Join up with some of your favourite characters from Alice in Wonderland, and let’s see how it plays!

There isn’t a whole lot to Tea for 2 – a scoreboard, deck of cards, a few objective tokens, player pawns, a pocket watch dial, and a few additional tokens. Each plyer chooses a colour and places their pawn on the score track. The objective tiles are shuffled and placed on the score track as well. Then each player selects the 9 numbered cards of their colour and takes them into their possession. These cards are shuffled and placed in a draw stack.

Place the rest of the game components as per the rule book and you are ready to play.

Players flip the top card of their draw piles and the person with the higher valued card gets to take two actions. Possession of the Pink Flamingo wins a tie! The winning player can then activate the character card they just flipped over in the dual, or use the difference between their card number and their opponents card number to purchase one of the cards on the score board. This will then be shuffled into a players deck.

There is a bonus objective that can be completed – after completing a dual, a player may then use as many hour glass tokens as they have to move the hand on the pocket watch dial, ultimately triggering another action. When any player empties their draw pile, they must add a number 1 rabbit to their pile before shuffling and continuing with the game.

The game ends when 4 of the 5 character stacks are empty or when a player needs to add a rabbit but there are no rabbits left! After scoring the objective tiles, you are can see who won!

So the ultimate question of course is whether this game is any good, and to that I can say yes! There is a lot of strategy in determining when you should activate card abilities, when you should use pies and hour glasses, and so on. Making sure you have a good balance of cards to finish end game objectives is also really important, and is definitely the difference between winning and losing. If you are looking for quality two player games, Tea for Two is one worth checking out!