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Minestrone box art
2003 Ranked #20,702

Minestrone

This set-collection card game has players gather soup ingredients and complete recipes. Completing a recipe forces rivals to discard unfinished recipe cards, turning a timely finish into a setback for every other collector.

Card Game Set Collection Hand Management Theme: Food / Cooking

Players

2-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

6+

Complexity

1.43/5

Rating

5.71

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 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.8/5

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?

A simple set collection game of gathering minestrone soup ingredients and completing the recipe. This card game plays like Knizia's Trendy except that when recipe gets completed, other players have to dump their uncompleted recipe cards.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Hand Management

Time and sequence a limited hand of cards to preserve future options.
Set Collection

Gather related items that become more valuable when scored together.
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A simple set collection game of gathering minestrone soup ingredients and completing the recipe. This card game plays like Knizia's Trendy except that when recipe gets completed, other players have to dump their uncompleted recipe cards. The italian edition is renamed in Collection and published by Dal Negro, the vegetables is replaced by object like Portobello Merchant (books, stamps, ...)

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Category

1
Card Game

Mechanism

2
Hand Management Set Collection

Family

1
Theme: Food / Cooking

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Game and edition data

All specifications (4)

Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
2–4
Age
6+
Complexity
1.4/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

3
Luisa Cognetti Francesco Cognetti Leo Colovini

Artists

1
(Uncredited)

Publishers

2
Dal Negro Piatnik

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