Opportunity Shop: Bugs in the Kitchen Board Game 🎲 🪰 🍔

Today is Wednesday May 13th, 2026. So far this week I haven't seen much at my local Opportunity Shop. No Lego. No Lego minifigures. No DVDs. No books. Nothing of interest nor worth buying and wasting money on. I have to wait almost another week to get out of town and go back to Palmerston North. Today at my local Op Shop, I did see 1 item. Bugs in the Kitchen. Bugs in the Kitchen is a 2013 children's board game published by the German board game manufacturer Ravensburger. When I found it and looked on the back of the box, I thought to myself, "It's like Mouse Trap". In Bugs in the Kitchen, players manipulate, rotate and change a labyrinth of pathways on the game board as they attempt to lure bugs to traps in the corners of the game board. The maze on the game board is a deadly gauntlet where the players use knives, forks and spoons to rotate and change the maze. Whenever a player gets a bug in the trap, that player will recieve a bug token. The first player to trap 5 bugs and score 5 bug tokens wins the game. The game is like Mouse Trap. Home Alone. Splat! and Bed Bug. It's Gordon Ramsay's worst nightmare. Kitchens get infested by insects such as flies, cockroaches, ants and beetles because the food in kitchens attracts them. The game comes with Hexbug Nanos. 5 bug tokens. A dice. 24 rotating kitchen utensils and the game board with the traps in the corners. Instead of plastic counters of insects which you move across the game board with your fingers, the bugs in the game are battery operated insect-like robots called Hexbug Nanos and when you switch them on, they vibrate and move through the maze on their rubber feet. The Hexbugs Nanos give the game a sense of originality. It's funny, the game is called Bugs in the Kitchen and the game board isn't a kitchen. At first, I thought it was a maze game where the players must get their bugs safely out through the maze without getting splattered and flattened by the chef with a kitchen utensil. That would actually make a good computer game. I have to admit, I like the cartoony artwork on the box cover. Bugs in the Kitchen recieved mostly positive reviews from critics and it won 4 awards. The game was described as fast paced, fun and chaotic. I have never played Bugs in the Kitchen, but it really does look like a good fun game and it's the kind of board game children can play at parties. If your kids love Mouse Trap, they may like Bugs in the Kitchen too. My local Opportunity Shop has Bugs in the Kitchen for sale for $3.