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2019 Ranked #13,461

Cooks & Crooks

Competitive cooking card game has players prepare dishes for judges while seeking the highest score by round end. Stealing supplies, swapping ingredients, and spoiling recipes make every kitchen success vulnerable to sabotage.

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Players

2-4

Play time

20-40 min

Age

8+

Complexity

1.4/5

Rating

6.79

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 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 3.8/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

In Cooks & Crooks a group of international chefs compete in a cooking TV show, but unlike those ones, these chefs don’t mind playing dirty!

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In Cooks & Crooks a group of international chefs compete in a cooking TV show, but unlike those ones, these chefs don’t mind playing dirty! They will try to obtain victory while sabotaging their opponent’s efforts by stealing their supplies, swapping ingredients in their ovens or even by adding a nasty ingredient to their recipes. To win, you'll have to prepare the most delicious dishes... but be careful! Other players may try to put in the proverbial fly in your soup, or worse! Try to obtain the best scores from the judges while at the same time trying to ruin other chefs dishes. When the bell signaling the round’s end rings, the player with the most amount of points will be declared the winner. May the most crooked chef win! —description from the publisher

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Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
2
Play time
20–40 min
Age
8+
Complexity
1.4/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

2
Luis Muñoz Andrés Novelo

Artists

1
Luis Muñoz

Publishers

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