With Dabba Walla – Mumbai Food Express, a vibrant tile placement game from Queen Games, you experience Mumbai’s bustling streets while planning lunch routes, sorting boxes and delivering every dabba exactly on time.
How do you play the game?
Each game follows a working day of the famous dabba delivery workers. In the pick-up phase, you move your Dabba Walla around the city board, draft dabba cards and place matching polyomino tiles into your vehicle grid, stacking them over several levels. You try to fill spaces efficiently and trigger chai tiles for powerful bonuses. In the delivery phase, you flip the board and simultaneously play cards to set the values of the four dabba colours. For every level of your stack you score tips based on these values, remove that layer of tiles and continue until all lunches are delivered and the richest Dabba Walla wins.
Why is this game a must-have?
Dabba Walla blends accessible family gameplay with clever spatial puzzles and a strong cultural theme inspired by the real Mumbai lunchbox system.
- Engaging tile stacking puzzle with shared scoring that keeps everyone involved every round.
- Four different vehicles and a double-sided board for varied setups and difficulty levels.
- Two modular expansions included, adding alternative scoring and contract objectives.
- Premium, mostly cardboard components produced in Europe with less than 1% plastic.
- Ideal family board game for 2–4 players ages 8+ with a playtime of about 45 minutes.
Box contents
- 76 dabba tiles in four colours with polyomino shapes, plus 76 matching dabba cards.
- 12 bonus tiles, 15 empty dabba tiles, 36 chai tiles and 25 tickets.
- Double-sided three-part game board, 3 sorting boxes with lids and a card box with setup overview.
- 8 double-sided player boards with 4 vehicles, 4 Dabba Walla standees, level markers and tip markers.
- Module 1: 4 double zero tiles. Module 2: 3 double-sided order cards with 6 different orders.
Specifications
- Type: Tile placement game, family board game.
- Players: 2–4.
- Age: 8+.
- Playtime: approx. 45 minutes.
- Languages in the box: German, English, French (international edition).
- Publisher: Queen Games.
- Designers: Patricia Limberger & Felix Leder.
- Artist: Patricia Limberger.
- EAN: 4010350107928.
- Box size: approx. 230 × 230 × 50 mm.
- Box weight: approx. 1.3 kg.