- Set-up
- About 5 min
- Reading
- Some
The quick verdict
Full verdict ↓Great for Families with children of about 5 to 8 who are ready for a first game with money
Think twice if You want choices and strategy; the die and the squares decide almost everything
How we rate it
Learning curve. Roll, move and do what the square says: a five-year-old picks it up in one game, so it sits with UNO at 1 on our scale. Handling the money needs a grown-up or an older child at first.
Luck & skill. The die and the cards decide nearly everything; the board and cards in store photos leave players few decisions to make.
Interaction. Everyone travels the same route and shares the bank, but none of the squares or cards seen lets you act on another player.
Set-up. Open the board, hand out a token and the starting money to each player, shuffle the 12 cards and choose a banker.
Reading. Each square and card carries a short English instruction or amount, so someone has to read them out for children who can't read yet.
Learning curve: 1 = UNO or Connect 4; 3 = Catan; 5 = a heavy strategy game. These describe the experience, not an overall score.
Is Jumbo Picnic right for you?
Great if
- Families with children of about 5 to 8 who are ready for a first game with money
- Mixed-age cousins at a get-together, since luck evens things out and nobody needs a plan
- Practising counting and adding with play notes, with a grown-up as banker
- Five or six players round one big board, more than most children's board games take
Skip it if
- You want choices and strategy; the die and the squares decide almost everything
- Your children can't read yet and nobody wants to read out every square and card
- You want something small to carry; the Jumbo box is about 42 cm long and weighs about a kilo, and Picnic Junior is the smaller box
How Jumbo Picnic plays
Set-up: open the board, give each player one of the six coloured tokens and hand out the play money as Ratna's leaflet in the box says. Shuffle the 12 cards into a pile. One person, often a grown-up, can look after the bank and pay out notes.
- Time to teach: about 5 minutes.
- Reading and language: The board squares and the 12 cards carry short English instructions and amounts (miss a turn, go back, collect or pay a sum), so a child who can't read yet needs a grown-up or an older cousin to read them out. Paying and collecting play notes in hundreds is the main maths.
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A turn, step by step
- 1Roll
Roll the die and move your token along the picnic trip.
- 2Follow
Do what the square says: wait at the airport, go to the garage, miss a turn, take a card, or pay or collect play money.
- 3Win
Head for Home; Ratna's leaflet in the box says how the winner is decided.
The full explanation: how a game of Jumbo Picnic goes
On your turn, roll the die and move your token along the trip, then do what the square says. Indian store photos of Ratna's Picnic board show squares written like a family day out: wait at the airport until your next turn, go to the garage after a puncture, miss a turn when a cow is on the road or someone is car-sick, go back for a forgotten mobile, or take a card. The cards bring good and bad luck, such as birthday money, a jackpot or a GST refund, or an insurance premium, a fire in the godown or a fine for spitting on the road.
The trip ends at Home. Ratna's rules leaflet is not published online, so check it for how the winner is decided (the first player home, or the richest once everyone is back) and agree before you start. Expect a game to take about half an hour to an hour.
Jumbo or Picnic Junior? Indian store listings give both boxes the same contents: a board, 12 cards, six tokens, a die, play money and a leaflet. The difference is size. Jumbo, the box our Amazon.in link goes to, has a board about 42 cm across in a box about 42 x 23 cm that weighs about a kilo, and is listed for 2 to 6 players. Picnic Junior comes in a box about 33 x 18 cm at about half the weight and is listed for 2 to 4. Choose Jumbo for five or six players or a big table where everyone needs to see the board; choose Junior for a smaller group and a smaller shelf.
Tip for young players: let a grown-up be banker and read each square aloud, and give children the job of counting out what they pay or collect. That keeps the game moving and turns every turn into a little maths practice.
What's in the box
- 1Game board
about 42 cm across, according to an Indian store listing - 12Ratna's cards
good- and bad-luck cards that pay or charge play money - 6Tokens
one colour for each player - 1Die
- –Play money
a set of paper notes - 1Instruction leaflet
Box: 42.5 × 23 × 5 cm, 1 kg. Handy to know for gifting and travel.
From an Indian toy shop's product data for the Jumbo box, which names Prem Ratna Toys as the maker: 1 game board, 12 Ratna's cards, 6 tokens of different colours, 1 die, 1 set of currency notes and 1 instruction manual. Ratna's doesn't publish a contents list of its own. The same shop lists the same contents for the smaller Picnic Junior box.
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How to make sure you get a genuine copyEditions and the details worth checking.
What reviewers and players say
We found no independent written reviews, parenting blogs or forum threads about Ratna's Picnic game, so there is little to report on what families think of it. Two YouTube unboxings exist, one of the smaller Picnic Junior box in Hindi, but neither gives a verdict we could draw on. On paper it is a light, luck-driven trip game with play money that keeps young children busy and practises counting; families who want decisions to make will find little here.
What people love
- A familiar Indian day out on the board: the airport, a hotel, traffic and a cow on the road
- Easy for five-year-olds to join in, since every turn is roll, move and do what the square says
- Play money gives children practice at counting and making change
- The Jumbo board has room for up to six players
Common complaints
- Mostly luck, with few decisions, so older children may lose interest
- Lots of short English text to read out for young children
- The rules aren't online, so a lost leaflet leaves families guessing how the game ends
5 research sources
- Reference Ratna's Jumbo Picnic: maker, barcode, size, weight and contents (read October 2026) · Kheliya Toys
- Reference Ratnas Picnic Game - Multicolor, 42 x 42 cm board (read October 2026) · FirstCry
- Reference Ratna's Picnic Game Unboxing (Toystorybharat, November 2025) · YouTube
- Reference Unboxing and review of RATNA'S junior Picnic Board Family Game (The Knowledge Crusade, August 2021) · YouTube
- Reference PREM RATNA TOYS channel description (read October 2026) · YouTube
Summarised in our own words from the sources above. We don't use Amazon reviews or ratings.
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Questions people ask about Jumbo Picnic
How do you play Ratna's Picnic board game?
Each player rolls the die, moves a token along the trip and does what the square says: wait at the airport, go to the garage after a puncture, miss a turn, take a card, or pay or collect play money. Cards bring good and bad luck, such as birthday money or a fine. The aim is to get home; Ratna's leaflet in the box says how the winner is decided.
What is the difference between Jumbo Picnic and Picnic Junior?
Mainly size. Jumbo has a board about 42 cm across in a box about 42 x 23 cm, weighs about a kilo and is listed for 2 to 6 players. Picnic Junior's box is about 33 x 18 cm and half the weight, and it is listed for 2 to 4. Indian store listings give both the same contents: a board, 12 cards, six tokens, a die, play money and a leaflet.
What age is the Picnic board game for?
Ratna's says 5 and up, and one Indian store lists the Jumbo box for 5 to 12. Five- and six-year-olds can roll and move on their own but need someone to read the squares and cards and help with the money; by about 7 or 8 most children manage alone.
Is Ratna's Jumbo Picnic made in India?
Ratna's is the brand of Prem Ratna Toys, a Mumbai toy and game maker, and Indian store listings give India as the Jumbo box's country of origin. We haven't seen a photo of the Jumbo box that shows a made-in-India line, so look for it on the box.
How long does a game of Picnic take?
Ratna's doesn't give a playing time. Allow about half an hour to an hour; more players and more miss-a-turn squares make it longer.
Game facts
- Publisher
- Ratna's (Prem Ratna Toys, Mumbai)
- In India
- Prem Ratna Toys, Mumbai (maker of Ratna's games)
- Players
- 2–6
- Barcode
- 8904114982196
- Language
- Some English – The board squares and the 12 cards carry short English instructions and amounts (miss a turn, go back, collect or pay a sum), so a child who can't read yet needs a grown-up or an older cousin to read them out. Paying and collecting play notes in hundreds is the main maths.
- Box size and weight
- 42.5 × 23 × 5 cm, 1 kg
Sources & photo creditsThe references behind this guide.
Facts on this page come from the publisher, the Indian maker or distributor, and the sources below. Photos are credited under each one.
- Kheliya Toys - Ratna's Jumbo Picnic (maker details, barcode, size, weight and contents)
- FirstCry - Ratnas Picnic Game, 42 x 42 cm board (age, box size, country of origin)
- FirstCry - Ratnas Picnic Game, the smaller 33.5 x 18.5 cm box (photos of the board and cards)
- Kheliya Toys - Ratna's Junior Picnic Board Game (contents and barcode of the smaller box)
- Satyam Stationers - Ratna's Picnic Board Game Jumbo (barcode)
- Prem Ratna Toys - official YouTube channel (about the maker)
- Ratna's Picnic Game Unboxing (Toystorybharat, November 2025)