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2020 Ranked #12,710

Chef Umami

Menu-building card game has chefs combine ingredients and action cards to satisfy demanding customer preferences. Every recipe choice must balance flavor demands against the points needed to create the winning meal.

Card Game Theme: Food / Cooking

Players

2-4

Play time

20-35 min

Age

8+

Complexity

1.86/5

Rating

7.27

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

Is this game right for my group?

ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.1/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.6/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.4/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.7/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Chef Umami is a card game where players have to create a delicious and succulent menu. But they have to follow the gastronomic cravings of different very exigent customers. Adding different ingredients and using action cards they have to get the maximum points to win the game.

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Category

1
Card Game

Family

1
Theme: Food / Cooking

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
3
Play time
20–35 min
Age
8+
Complexity
1.9/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

2
David Bella Andreu Sierro

Publishers

1
Magic Box Int.

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