Guess My Nuts

Guess My Nuts - Game Intro

Six nuts. Six hiding spots. A rival constantly on the hunt for yours.

Somewhere under a mushroom cap, a walnut is holding very still. Two of its friends have ventured off into the forest. It's squirrel protector nowhere to be seen. 

In this game, you are squirrels trying to guess where the other player's nuts are!

Roll the dice, get clues and triangulate your way to their stash before they get to yours. Think Cluedo's deduction, Battleship's nail-biting near-misses, and a dash of Sudoku-style elimination — wrapped in a game about very anxious nuts.

Guess My Nuts is a 2-player deduction game that plays in 10–20 minutes, easy to learn, hard to put down.

Meet the Nuts

Every game, you'll secretly tuck 6 of your 9 nuts across your own hidden Forest Map before play begins — you're the squirrel who buried them, and they're trusting you to have chosen well. Once the game begins, there's no more hiding to do and you are on the hunt for your rival's nuts. Your rival will also be creeping closer to the spot where each one of yours is holding still.

This isn't just a cute conceit. Real grey squirrels do something eerily similar: when they know a rival is watching, they'll dig a hole, pretend to bury a nut, and cover it back up empty — a genuine bluff to protect the real stash. Gray squirrels lose a substantial share of their cached food to thieving members of their own species, sometimes estimated around 25%, which creates real pressure to protect the stash! Researchers at Wilkes University have watched them do it in the wild, and it works — deceptive caching measurably cuts down how often a rival finds the real hoard. 

How To Play

Why We Made This

Four years in the making. Guess My Nuts started as an independent study project with Professor Henning Piezinka (formerly teaching at INSEAD, now at Wharton). The project was about a gamified take on entrepreneurship and deducing what actually causes ventures to fail. From there, the game went through a few lives — initially as a collaborative game, then as a 3-4 player version (with the now-defunct Radical Games), then a 2-player, first-to-guess-9-nut-card mobile game coded in Unity.

We finally landed on the version you see today in early 2026, after Good Spirits Games game designer Geoffrey Chia suggested narrowing down the guessing to 6 nuts from 9, with 2 revealed and 1 permanently hidden (thanks, Geoffrey!). 

We've spent 2026 turning that idea into the art and design you see now.

The Collector's Edition

For the ardent Kickstarter backers, we have prepared a Collector's Edition of Guess My Nuts. Note that this edition will only be available for sale during the Kickstarter campaign + limited in-person sales at board game conventions (no other online sales); it will also be a single print run. 

Gameplay remains exactly the same, but components have premium upgrades:

• Instead of drupe seeds (almonds, walnuts and cashews), the collector's edition will feature dessert nuts (macadamia, pistachio and hazelnut)!
• All Nut cards are now upgraded to Nut tiles! Made from resin material instead of 250gsm card stock
• Includes a cloth bag to keep Nut tiles   
• Box comes with a magnetic lid
• Forest maps are foil-stamped 

Pledge Levels & Optional Add-Ons

Optional Add-Ons 

(purchased separately, stack onto any tier, prices in Singapore dollar)

For late pledges, we will be using BackerKit as our Pledge Manager.

Stretch Goals

Playtests & Reviews

[Under construction]

Use of AI

We did not use AI for the board game. All artwork for the current and predecessor board game editions of the Guess My Nut games are 100% original by artists. For the latest edition, we partnered with Mubdi Designs, an art studio based in Pakistan, for all illustrations and graphic design, and worked with an India-based animator who built our gameplay video in Blender.

About Tembusu Games

Tembusu Games is a Singapore-based game-based learning studio, designing games for people to have an immersive experience while having fun. 

Guess My Nuts is our second Kickstarter!

Tembusu Games / Dexter Tiah has also published the following games titles:

• (2026) NEXT STATION: The Taipei Metro Game / 下一站: 台北捷運之旅
• (2025) NEXT STATION: The Singapore MRT Game (SG60 Edition) [first Kickstarter]
• (2024) NEXT STATION: The Singapore MRT Game
• (2023) Rockstar Portfolio Manager (Second Edition)
• (2020) Rockstar Portfolio Manager (First Edition)

Shipping & Sales Tax/VAT/GST Estimates

As shipping costs are in quite a bit of flux we’re collecting shipping outside of Kickstarter (via BackerKit) and will charge them when the production run is en route to the fulfillment centre. Please see the table below for the estimated shipping and tax rates:

• Kickstarter's Pledge Manager automatically collects and remits VAT for USA, UK and EU backers.
• If you are from Southeast Asia, East Asia, and Rest of World, we may collect import VAT/duties at BackerKit as well.
• We are unable to ship to the following places: Russia, Ukraine, Palestine, Israel, and regions where postal service is disrupted due to active conflict or war
• If you’re unsure whether we can ship to your location, feel free to reach out and we’d be happy to confirm!

Support

Need help or have a question for us?

• Comment on this campaign
• Tag/ DM us on Instagram @guessmynuts
• or email us at enquiries@tembusugames.com