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2012 Ranked #18,993

Chef Cuckoo!

This creative food party game has chefs draft ingredients, invent a dish, and earn the most votes for meeting a tasty or awful challenge. Naming and describing the meal is as important as the three-card recipe.

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Players

3-8

Play time

10-20 min

Age

7+

Complexity

1/5

Rating

5.94

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.6/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Armed with a stack of ingredient cards and a given food challenge, you need to create the best – or worst – meals with Chef Cuckoo. Yes, the challenge in Chef Cuckoo!

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Armed with a stack of ingredient cards and a given food challenge, you need to create the best – or worst – meals with Chef Cuckoo. Yes, the challenge in Chef Cuckoo! is not always to make the most delicious dish as sometimes you'll be tasked with creating an awful meal. Can you whip up the yuckiest soup? The most sensational pizza? In Chef Cuckoo!, the player chefs first shop for six ingredient cards, then they arrange them creatively to create one special dish with three ingredients, creating an appropriate name and evocative description while doing do. All all players have presented their creations, each chef awards one star to what they think is the tastiest or the most disgusting dish. The chef awarded the most voting stars is dubbed "Chef Cuckoo"!

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Play and group

Players
3–8
Best with
4–8
Play time
10–20 min
Age
7+
Complexity
1.0/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Christophe Raimbault

Publishers

1
Blue Orange Games

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