“We don’t explicitly say ‘No pillow forts,’ because how terrible would it be to have a rule against pillow forts?” Inman said. For the record, there is no couch fort rule. It was designed so a 7-year-old could explain how to play in a few minutes, the two said. “Throw Throw Burrito” actually relatively few, straight-forward rules.

I got a 45-year-old man to build a couch fort.” “That’s probably against the rules, but that’s not what matters.

“We played a match where a friend ran into the other room and built a couch fort to deflect shots,” Inman said. The card players - typically used to sitting around a table drawing and discarding - are suddenly leaping for stuffed burrito, running for cover, stalking each other around the house. Matthew Inman, who created the game with Brian Spence and long-time collaborator Lee, said those fights are where the real magic happens. It’s that movement when card game transitions into food fight that makes “Throw Throw Burrito” such an unusual offering for the tabletop gaming set. The game ends once the pile of those tokens is divvied out among the players.

The food fight wraps up once one person is hit with a plush, earning a negative point “burrito bruise” token. The way in which that can happen and how many people are involved in the prescribed food fight depends on the sort of burrito cards matched. Players grab one of the two included plush burritos and attempt to hit the other one with it.

Burrito toss game