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1989 • 2-4 Players • Age 8+
Who is this game suitable for?
Suitable for ages 8 and up. You can play with 2 to 4 players.
For the pros among you, the following mechanics can be decisive: Action Points, Dice Rolling und Set Collection...
Game Data
- Average time to play
- 30 Minutes
- Minimum age
- 8+
- Number of players
- 2 - 4
- Publisher
- Heidelberger Spieleverlag, Moskito Spiele, Competo / Marektoy, Fantasy Flight Games, Giochi Uniti, HeidelBÄR Games, IELLO, Intrafin Games, Stratelibri, Swan Panasia Co., Ltd., UBO CnC
- Designers
- Karl-Heinz Schmiel
- Artists
- Jochen Eeuwyk, Michael Präpasser, Christof Tisch
- Mechanics
- Action Points, Dice Rolling, Set Collection
In one of his sillier games, Karl-Heinz Schmiel casts the players as semi-psychotic cooks attempting to hone their culinary skills. Each player receives a miniature pan and a hotplate. Then each turn you can either attempt to turn up the heat, season your dish, or attempt to steal another cook's recipe in the making. Heating your hotplate is a random affair with a die, and could raise the heat on everyone's plate. Spicing the dish is heart of the game and done by up-ending small bottles filled with little colored wood pellets. When the pellets tumble out of the bottle (sometimes, if they do), the number of pellets can't exceed two, because over-spicing the dish ruins it and you have to throw it in the trash!
The 2009 version includes some changed rules, a new victory condition, additional recipes and some new mechanics in comparison to the 1989 version.
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