Game Review: Art Ditto

by Birdcage Press, $24.95

We couldn’t have picked a better game for our first-ever GameTime game review!

“Art Ditto” by Birdcage Press is a real winner from the inside out. At the most basic level, this is a 48-card game of “memory,” where you turn the tiles face down and try to match pairs. If it were just a matching game, the high-quality, reproduced art cards are attractive enough to keep our attention. But this game can be stepped up a notch, too.

To play “Art Ditto,” players each take at least one card panel that contains three pictures of classic paintings. As the game of memory progresses, players try to collect the artwork found on their panels. If they do, they get to keep both cards. If a player matches cards belonging to another player’s panel, the two players must share the cards. At game’s end, the winner is the player with the most cards.

We like this new twist, which makes “Art Ditto” a great family game for all ages!