Build jazz instruments for giant musicians
You and your fellow players are managers at the factory who are looking to make a name for yourselves, with supervisor mice at your employ to recruit cats around the factory and build giant jazz instruments. Since this is a team effort, you can make use of anyone's supervisor, but a supervisor will recruit workers only for their own boss! Careful planning and plenty of bragging will be needed to make sure the instruments get finished and the proper managers get credit for it.
In Shuffle and Swing, the player who builds the most efficiently, while ensuring that their work is noticed by Shuffle and Swing, will score the most points with their jazzy bosses and win the big promotion!
Shuffle and Swing is rich with crunchy decisions thanks to dual-layered rondels of department positioning and action die selection. Yet it also stays firmly rooted in classic design principles: clean systems, tight interaction, focused scoring, and fast-paced gameplay. Players can even use each other's supervisors (dice) as they face shared incentives to complete instruments before game end.
As you navigate the ever-shifting, player-driven rondels, you’ll encounter a wide variety of instrument competitions and combinations from one play to the next. The base game comes with six unique instruments, and the Instruments Expansion doubles the count!
Double your instrument variety with 6 more instruments (3 double-sided boards) with unique scoring objectives!
Upgrade your 30 punchboard boost tokens to squishy cheese, glossy milk bottles, and wooden ladders!
Robert Hovakimyan is an Armenian boardgame designer based out of California. Robert emphasizes simplicity in his designs, favoring human interaction as the driver of variability and excitement instead of the rules. His best known designs include Moonrollers, Bebop, and Shuffle and Swing.
Gary is a game designer, illustrator, and model maker from England. He is probably best known for his contributions to the Lone Wolf series of game books written by Joe Dever and Redwall series of books.
Alisha Giroux is an illustrator and general maker of things, working as a freelance artist for both small and large companies. Alisha's work is highly inspired by Canadian wildlife. She is best known for her artwork in Lunar, Cat Blues: The Big Gig, and Shuffle and Swing.