Keep your balance steady in Rafter Five, a fast-paced dexterity travel game where every placement planks, treasure chests and wooden meeples can send your carefully built raft wobbling towards disaster. Compact enough to take anywhere, this pocket-sized strategy game packs plenty of tension into every turn.
 
Build your raft piece by piece as you lift a rafter, add a new raft card then place one of your treasure chests in a precarious position. You will also need to move one of the five meeples already standing on the raft, making each decision a delicate balancing act. Knock an opponent’s treasure chest into the sea and you must add it to their hold, bringing them closer to elimination.
 
The closer the raft gets to completion, the harder it becomes to place new pieces without sending treasure tumbling. Players with five opponent-owned chests in their hold are eliminated, so clever positioning can turn a seemingly harmless move into a devastating setback. Survive until the raft is complete or all other players have collected too many penalties, then the player with the fewest penalties claims victory.
 
With tactile wooden components, quick turns plus plenty of suspense, Rafter Five is an excellent small box travel game for family game nights, holidays or anyone who enjoys physical strategy challenges.
 
Will you keep your raft afloat while forcing your rivals into troubled waters?