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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.
General
Number of players: 2-4
Duration: 30 min.
Age: 8+
Language: English
Kind of game
Type/Theme: Action / Dexterity
Mechanism: Action Points, Dice Rolling, Set Collection
Creators
Designer: Karl-Heinz Schmiel- Taal
- English
- Theme
- Action / Dexterity
- Age
- 8+
- Playtime
- 15-30 min.
- Game Mechanics
- Action Point Allowance System, Dice Rolling, Set Collection
- Number of players
- 2, 3, 4