Button Shy

Tides

Tides - Main image
$9 $15 In stock

Category: Wallet Game

Take a stroll along the beach. Feel your toes digging into the sand. Discover a world of beautiful objects just waiting to be found. Whether you're picking up driftwood for your sculptures or sea glass for earrings, let Mother Nature be your muse as you follow the tides.

Tides is a game about collecting items from a beach. The goal is to score as many points as you can by making the most interesting sets of items. The tide is always changing; you never know what you’ll find on the beach!

Take cards from the row during LOW TIDE to collect items from the beach. During HIGH TIDE, flip the double-sided cards; the back side has scoring conditions. Score a set in either LOW or HIGH TIDE, by combining items you collected with a scoring card. Play until someone reaches 50 points. Finish the current low tide/high tide cycle. The player with the highest score wins!

  • Players: 1-2
  • Length: 20 minutes
  • Age: 14+

Button Shy hand assembled games are labeled for ages 14+.

EXPANSIONS

Fun In The Sun (3 cards with Special Abilities)

The best finds aren't always on the surface. Take a few moments to dig and dive for buried treasures that will make your art pop.

Shuffle these 3 cards into the deck to give some new special abilities. If you have any of these new card abilities in your hand, you may use the special ability as an action during the required Tide Phase. Once used, discard the card.

CREDITS

Designed by Mike Berg
Art by Marty Cobb

VERSIONS
Tides Wallet Game  - base game packed in a vinyl wallet

Fun in the Sun Expansion - three card expansion packed in a card sleeve

Customer Reviews (4.6 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Timothy ★★★★★

The satisfying crunch of walking across dry sand followed by that soft squish when you hit the wet part—this game nails that feeling perfectly. I’ve already spent hours just hunting for sea glass pieces to add to my collection, and the detail on each object is genuinely impressive.

Eli E. ★★★★★

I’ve been playing this every evening after work, and the beach strolls are oddly calming — the way your toes sink into the sand actually feels realistic. Finding sea glass pieces for the collection never gets old, and the objects you uncover keep me coming back for just one more walk.

Christopher ★★★★★

The driftwood collecting loop is such a chill way to unwind after work—I've sunk entire evenings into just scouring the shoreline. The sand-digging sensation feels oddly real and makes every little discovery, even a plain piece of sea glass, genuinely exciting.

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