{"id":308819,"date":"2024-11-22T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/?post_type=reviews&#038;p=308819"},"modified":"2024-11-20T23:16:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T05:16:44","slug":"oh-my-pigeons","status":"publish","type":"reviews","link":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/reviews\/oh-my-pigeons\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh My Pigeons! Game Review"},"content":{"rendered":"    <div class=\"amzn-ad amzn-enhanced-links-small\">\n        <div>\n            <div class=\"amzn-product\">\n                <span class=\"amzn-product-image-container\">\n                    <div class=\"amzn-product-image-holder\">\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"amzn-product-image lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51BSxlvDPDL._SL300_.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"amzn-product-image\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51BSxlvDPDL._SL300_.jpg\"><\/noscript>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/span>\n                <div class=\"amzn-product-title-container\">\n                    <a rel=\"sponsored\" class=\"amzn-product-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0D3FGZW4T?tag=meeplmount-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1\" target=\"_blank\">\n                        <span class=\"amzn-product-title-text\" title=\"Ravensburger Oh My Pigeons! 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(And look\u2014I might sound like a guy who has the mental capacity to play heavy pieces of chicken like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/reviews\/speakeasy\/\"><i>Speakeasy<\/i><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/reviews\/nucleum\/\"><i>Nucleum<\/i><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/reviews\/railways-of-the-lost-atlas\/\"><i>Railways of the Lost Atlas<\/i><\/a>, but the reality is that this works only because I balance it with games like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/articles\/back-in-the-day-uno\/\"><i>UNO<\/i><\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Any time a new Ravensburger game arrives at the house, my kids want to give it a spin. That\u2019s because Ravensburger has generally been good to us\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/reviews\/disney-villainous-introduction-to-evil\/\"><i>Villainous<\/i><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/reviews\/horrified\/\"><i>Horrified<\/i><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/reviews\/pinata-blast\/\"><i>Pi\u00f1ata Blast<\/i><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/reviews\/the-lord-of-the-rings-adventure-book-game-review\/\"><i>The Lord of the Rings Adventure Book Game<\/i><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/reviews\/dungeons-dice-and-danger\/\"><i>Dungeons, Dice &amp; Danger<\/i><\/a>, etc.\u2014and the games are always easy to get to the table. So when I whipped out <i>Oh My Pigeons!<\/i> after dinner the other night, something magical happened:<\/p>\n<p>The kids wanted to play it again as soon as the game was over.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-308820 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-wp-pid=\"308820\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-2-74x55.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 74w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-2-111x83.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 111w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-2-300x225.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 300w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-2.jpg?size=528x396&amp;lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 528w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-2-600x450.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 600w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-2-768x576.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 768w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-2-990x743.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 990w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-2-1024x768.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 1024w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-2-1200x900-cropped.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 1200w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-2-1320x990.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 1320w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-2-1200x900-cropped.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 1500w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/768;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-308820\" src=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-wp-pid=\"308820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-2-74x55.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 74w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-2-111x83.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 111w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-2-300x225.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 300w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-2.jpg?size=528x396&amp;lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 528w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-2-600x450.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 600w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-2-768x576.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 768w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-2-990x743.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 990w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-2-1024x768.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 1024w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-2-1200x900-cropped.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 1200w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-2-1320x990.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 1320w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-2-1200x900-cropped.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Now, some of that is because <i>Oh My Pigeons!<\/i> is SO short. The first game was won in less than five minutes. But subsequent games didn\u2019t take much longer, with our longest game taking about 12 minutes. That\u2019s because <i>Oh My Pigeons!<\/i> is so easy to teach you can knock that part out in less than 60 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Each player has a hand of three cards, all of which do something to the collective players at the table. Each player has a small bench with three cute gray pigeon meeples, with space for more (this varies based on player count). On a turn, you play a card, and likely get more pigeons, steal from other players, roll a die to take pigeons from either the supply or other players, or trade benches with other players. Once a player has a full bench of pigeons, the game immediately ends with that player declared as the victor.<\/p>\n<p>At the Bell compound, we usually don&#8217;t like to play games where people steal from each other\u2014UNLESS that game is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/reviews\/tanuki\/\"><i>Tanuki<\/i><\/a> (2024, Synapses Games), and the entire game is about getting \u201cgot.\u201d No one in my circles likes to play a two-hour Euro where someone can get robbed one time as a result of a card effect. It just doesn&#8217;t feel right. Do you know those cards in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/reviews\/terraforming-mars\/\"><i>Terraforming Mars<\/i><\/a> that allow a player to steal plant cubes from an opponent? Everyone I play with takes those cards out of their <i>Terraforming Mars<\/i> decks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-308821 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-wp-pid=\"308821\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-1-225x300.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 225w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-1.jpg?size=528x704&amp;lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 528w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-1-600x800.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 600w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-1-768x1024.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 768w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-1-990x1320.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 990w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-1.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 1125w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 768px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 768\/1024;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-308821\" src=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-wp-pid=\"308821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-1-225x300.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 225w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-1.jpg?size=528x704&amp;lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 528w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-1-600x800.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 600w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-1-768x1024.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 768w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-1-990x1320.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 990w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Oh-My-Pigeons-1.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 1125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>But in <i>Oh My Pigeons!<\/i> \u2014just like <i>Tanuki<\/i> \u2014nobody cares if you are getting robbed on nearly every turn. And nobody minds because the games are over so fast.<\/p>\n<p>The game&#8217;s cards have funny artwork, and there&#8217;s a mechanic where a die roll could lead to a dexterity element in each play\u2014the active player has to try and knock pigeons off of an opponent&#8217;s bench by flicking a die in their direction. When flicks are on target, watching birds get knocked off a small cardboard tile is strangely comical.<\/p>\n<p>I did three plays of <i>Oh My Pigeons!<\/i> \u2014eleven each at two, three, and four players. The game accommodates up to five players, and I think it will live on as a game that we break out with our entire family of four as often as we can. It&#8217;s great to play this on a bigger table to make the flicking more dramatic. A smaller table makes it too easy to knock a bunch of birds out of contention!<\/p>\n<p><i>Oh My Pigeons!<\/i> It was a welcome surprise. 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