Throw down your blanket! Will you end the day surrounded by friends and eating a delicious meal, or will you be invaded by ants and left stranded and hungry on the edge of the party?

Competitive picnicking is a large multiplayer game of trading items and claiming territories, set on a big lawn on a sunny summer day and using food as game pieces. Players come to the picnic with the basic ingredients for lunch and play a culinary variant of Go Fish to assemble the highest-scoring snacks and sandwiches.

Competitive Picnicking has been played at Come Out & Play 2008 & The Adelaide Film Festival 2009, and was featured in The Games Bible, by Leigh Anderson.


with Michael Dory, Daniel Soltis, & Scott Varland