Too Many Cooks

A tasty cooperative challenge.

A co-operative hidden information card game about fussy chefs cooking soups together, played in 3 rounds of 5 minutes.

You are chefs working together on a delicious soup that satisfies some shared culinary tastes. The catch is, each chef has secret personal tastes which must also be sated!

You can swap this green mushroom...
...for any green or mushroom card in the soup base...
...to match your tastes.

But Martha also has secret tastes, and you want to make her happier too.
She seems to like green cards, but not tomatoes.

Which card do you replace?

TMC martha does not like your tomato
Start with a soup base of 16 vegetable card ingredients laid out on the table. Then, take turns to change or move the soup ingredients to satisfy as many tastes as possible before the time runs out.

On your turn you may either:

Change just one aspect of a card - ie its vegetable or colour, by swapping it out for a spare vegetable card.
Rotate a row or column of vegetables 1 card in either direction.
Pass - if your personal tastes and all shared tastes are satisfied.

Of course changes to the soup may upset or satisfy other chef’s secret taste sensibilities too! So, players vocalise their satisfaction or dissatisfaction and rotate their taste cards in hand to indicate how happy or unhappy they are after each change to the soup. But they cannot say exactly why. Eg “Ewwww, that’s disgusting!” is fine, but not “Ewww, I hate mushrooms!” Watch what other chefs seem to be working towards, and try to make changes that make everyone as happy as possible.

Illustrations de Josh Wright et Ben Nelson
2-6 joueurs
10+
20min