Bandu
A stacking and bidding game where every awkward piece becomes someone else's problem to balance or pay to avoid.
Who it's for
Groups who love dexterity games with a bidding twist, where the real skill is timing when to pay up.
Not for you if…
You get frustrated watching a tower you carefully balanced get destroyed by someone else's poor choice, because that is the whole game.
Vibe's take
wobbly, tense, funny, chaotic, social
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About this game
Bandu makes every single piece somebody else's problem eventually. Draw a strange wooden shape, an egg, a bowling pin, a warped little cup, and offer it to your neighbor, who has to decide fast: pay beans to keep it off their tower, or pay beans to shove it along to the next player instead. Nobody wants the piece and everybody has to deal with it, which turns simple tower-building into a running game of hot-potato bidding. Towers topple, players get eliminated, and the last stack still standing quietly wins while everyone else laughs at the wreckage. Chaotic fun that never plays the same way twice.
Get it
from $120
By the numbers
Players
Duration
15–45 min
Ages 6+
Complexity
1.3 / 5 — Very LightBGG Rating
6.3/10
Rank #1,848
4.2k ratings
Published
1987
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