Table feel
Moderate level of direct and strategic confrontation with high frequency of interaction, but low emphasis on cooperation.
Rich game profile
A La Carte
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 stea...
Players
2-4
Time
?-?
Age
8+
Weight
1.3
Rating
6.46
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Moderate level of direct and strategic confrontation with high frequency of interaction, but low emphasis on cooperation.
Teach
2.4
Teaching signal
Replay
4.1
High replayability
Interaction
3.7
Highly interactive
Scaling
4.0
Scales well
Strategy
4.7
Deep strategy
Control
3.0
Luck-sensitive
Replay value
a la carte has a high replayability score due to its high variability gameboard, impactful expansions, deep strategic possibilities, and good scalability. While it may take some time to learn, the game offers a fresh and engaging experience each time it is played.
Luck profile
A la carte has a moderate influence of luck. Random elements like dice rolls or card draws have some impact on the game outcome, but players have substantial ability to mitigate randomness through strategic decisions and planning. The game outcome is primarily determined by player strategy and decisions, with luck playing a minor role.
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What ABG knows about this game
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.
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Designers
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Karl-Heinz Schmiel
Artists
3
Jochen Eeuwyk
Michael Präpasser
Christof Tisch
Publishers
2
Heidelberger Spieleverlag
Moskito Spiele
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