123 Cups

Everyone has a set of five coloured cups. A card is flipped showing an arrangement, stacked in a tower or lined up in a row in a particular colour order, and every player races to build it with their own cups. The first to match the card slaps the bell in the middle of the table, and if they are right they keep the card. Most cards at the end wins. It is a pure speed and dexterity game with no reading and almost no rules, which puts it in the same corner of our shelf as Ghost Blitz and Jungle Speed. Children beat adults at it regularly. Bring it out for a mixed-age table or as the noisy five-minute opener before a longer game.