P for Pizza - Game Review

Table of Contents

• Game Breakdown
• P for Pizza - Overview
• How to Play P for Pizza
• P for Pizza - Tips and Tricks
• P for Pizza - Honest Review

P for Pizza - Overview

P for Pizza is a quick and nifty word game where all players have a chance to build their own pizza slice. The game works off a pretty simple premise: you’re given a category and a letter, and you have to be the first player to yell out a word starting with that letter. If you win that round, you get the corresponding letter card to help you build your slice. Simple?

Here is the twist. Each row of your slice can only be filled by yelling out a word from the correct category. Say, on the bottom row (easy row), you can fill it by yelling out any word from any row. The second row can be filled from only medium/hard categories. Once you get to the final row, you can only fill from hard. You can’t start building your medium row until you have finished your easy row and your hard row till you have finished your medium row. This means that if a player gets on a hot streak to begin, anyone can easily catch up when they start to struggle with the medium and then the hard rows.

How to Play P for Pizza

Step 1: Set up the Table

Place a pile of pizza cards in the middle of the table. You might not need all of them, but you will need at most nine times the number of players. Take three cards from the deck and lay them around the centre pile with the “pizza side” (the side with letters facing up).

Step 2: Start the Game

Take the first card off the top of the pile and discard it. The game starts immediately. The first person to yell out a word that fits one of the categories wins the round (or slice). The next round starts immediately as the winning player takes their slice off the top.

Step 3: Building your Pizza

Build your pizza from the ground up when you win the round. Remember that:

• EASY cards can only go on the bottom levels.
• MEDIUM cards can go on the bottom and middle levels.
• HARD cards can go on any level.
• You can only add cards to your MEDIUM level once your EASY level is complete (5 cards)
• You can only add cards to your HARD level once your MEDIUM level is complete (3 cards).

Step 4: Winning​

The first player to complete all levels (a total of 9 cards) wins the game.

P for Pizza - Tips and Tricks

• For new players, it’s worth playing a few practice rounds/examples so that they can understand how quickly the game flows.
• Obviously, for adults playing with younger kids, you’re going to be at an advantage with a larger vocabulary and knowledge. Keep that in mind to make sure that they get a go and be generous in the answers you accept from them and the time you give them.
• Set the rules you are going to play by early to avoid arguments.
  • Who is responsible for flipping over the next card after the round is won (we suggest the round winner)
  • A reminder that you must build your row in order (the official game rules)
  • How are you going to decide if a word fits into the definition of a category? Does it have to be indisputable, or are we going to a group vote?
• It’s always helpful to have an example of some sort as to how the rows should be set up.
  • 5 on the easy row (3 pointing up, 2 pointing down).
  • 3 on the medium row (2 up, 1 down).
  • 1 facing up.
• Official tips from the game rules (Extra Nibbles, as they call them)
  • If two people shout an answer at the same time, neither of them wins the card, and the round continues.
  • If no one can think of an answer in a round, discard the top Pizza Card to reveal a new set of categories. Everyone must agree before doing so.
  • To make things easier, younger players can build all three levels of their slice using any category they want.
  • If a player shouts out an answer from a category that they can no longer use, the round continues as normal.

P for Pizza - Honest Review

P for Pizza is a great, simple and easy game to pull out for a round or two at your next family board game night. The whole family can join in to build their pizza slice, and with the categories making it harder to fill the higher rows, it means anyone can catch up at any time, which is a great twist by the game designers.

The best part of this game is undoubtedly the laughs you can have as your family pulls out the most random words to fill each category. There can be a few light-hearted (or heated arguments if your family is particularly competitive) when you argue about whether certain words really belong to certain categories.

The game is good value for money if you can pick it up at a low price. It’s probably not something you will pull out at a more competitive game night with friends, but like previously mentioned, great to play with families, kids or even as an icebreaker for work/corporate or other events if you need a safe and easy to learn game.