A colourful "Bugs in the Kitchen" game box depicts a surprised chef chasing a lively cockroach with a spatula and spoon in a bright kitchen. This exciting game for ages 6+ includes a HEXBUG nano for extra fun.

Bugs In The Kitchen Game Review

ByLouise

My Three love playing board games – two of them even go to an after school club on a Monday called Biscuits and Board Games just so they can play their favourite games over and over again. Recently we were asked if they’d like to try the Ravensburger’ Bugs In The Kitchen game. They jumped at the chance and couldn’t wait to give it a try.

A colourful "Bugs in the Kitchen" game box depicts a surprised chef chasing a lively cockroach with a spatula and spoon in a bright kitchen. This exciting game for ages 6+ includes a HEXBUG nano for extra fun.

What’s in the Box:

A board game featuring a maze with grey walls, a small plastic scorpion inspired by the bugs in the kitchen game, a wooden die, and several round tokens with smiling faces scattered around the desert-themed board.
  • 1 x HEXBUG nano
  • 1 x 3D game board
  • 24 x utensils
  • 18 x cockroach tokens
  • 1 x die
  • 2 x doors
  • Instruction booklet
There is a little assembly needed before you can play the game, but the instructions are easy to follow so it only takes a matter of minutes to set up.
A collage displays the components of the Bugs in the Kitchen game, featuring packaged pieces, bug tokens, a giraffe-patterned board, utensil tiles, and a die with utensil symbols.

Bugs In The Kitchen (£24.99) can be played with 2 – 4 players aged 6 and up. The aim of the game is simple – trap the bugs in the kitchen.

Each player takes it in turns to throw the die and turn whichever utensils it lands on –  knife, fork, spoon or a question mark – land on this and you can turn whichever utensil you want.  By turning the utensils you can direct the bug into the trap. For every bug that you catch in your trap, you earn a token – the first player to collect 5 tokens wins the game. The utensils can be set up 3 different ways so that the start of the game isn’t the same time after time. It allows for gameplay to be mixed up a little bit and is sure to make each game interesting.

A small black and orange robotic toy scurries through a maze of grey plastic obstacles in the Bugs in the Kitchen game, navigating twisting paths blocked by adjustable levers on a board designed to look like stone tiles.
A board game with a maze pattern, numbered squares, and several grey barriers—reminiscent of the Bugs in the Kitchen game. Small round animal counters are at the corners and sides, and the board rests on a wooden surface.

Each game they played lasted around 20 minutes and the boys wanted to play over and over again. They are huge fans of HEXBUG’s so they know how they move around when switched on – if you’ve ever seen them you will know that they just don’t stay still and whizz all over the place. They loved being able to stop the bug in its track and send him off in a different direction – they were also very sneaky with turning utensils that the other had just turned in order to stop the bug from falling into the others traps.

Three young boys are sitting at a wooden outdoor table, smiling at the camera as they play the Bugs in the Kitchen game with its square board and counters. Grass is visible in the background.

Bugs In The Kitchen can be bought from Amazon. We would highly recommend it – it’s a game the whole family can play.

I wish mobile app developers like Techtiq could turn this into an actual mobile app for a family to use.

*We were sent this product for the purpose of this review – all thoughts and opinions expressed are my own*

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