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Who Is Going To Do The Dishes? box art
1991 Ranked #18,326

Who Is Going To Do The Dishes?

This card-stacking game has diners match dishes or colors while trying to finish with fewer dirty dishes than everyone else. Every stack changes who inherits the mess, so avoiding a match now can leave a worse cleanup later.

Card Game Humor Open Drafting Hand Management

Players

2-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

6+

Complexity

1.29/5

Rating

5.74

Harder to teach Low interaction Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.7/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.2/5

Low interaction

Player scaling 4.5/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 3.8/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Each player starts with 6 part of a meal (drink, fish, meat, sweet, etc.). On your turn, you can turn a card revealing a dirty dish in one of the 4 colors, or stacking one of your cards (or stack of cards) on one with the same dish or the same color.

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Each player starts with 6 part of a meal (drink, fish, meat, sweet, etc.). On your turn, you can turn a card revealing a dirty dish in one of the 4 colors, or stacking one of your cards (or stack of cards) on one with the same dish or the same color. The loser of the game is the one with the most dishes at the end. He's the one who will clean the dishes... The glove is included!

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2

Mechanism

2

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All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
2
Play time
20 min
Age
6+
Complexity
1.3/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

3
Philippe des Pallières Didier Jacobée Patrice Pillet

Artists

3
Cyril Chedeville Thomas Guidez Pascal Trigaux

Publishers

4
Abalone Games Granna Horisont Enterprises Ltd. Oy Identity Games International B.V.