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Monster Diner

Restaurant cRitic and star chef

Employees are needed at the Monster Diner! The selection and number, however, needs careful planning, because three cooks without an ice cream vendor are no good, and, furthermore, each monster has other criteria for scoring.

96 cards for ten employees and disgruntled guest are stacked; each player has his own board with three positions for cards, from where he transfers the hired employees to the kitchen.

In turn, you draw a card and place it on your own board or onto that of another player; on an opposing board you can only fill one of the two positions to the left and right of the middle one; the middle one is taboo for placement by other players. On your own board, too, you fill the left and right positions before filling the middle one. If you put a card on the middle position, all three cards on the board go to the kitchen where they are sorted by type. When someone places the last card from the stack on a board, all employees on boards are transferred to their respective kitchens and sorted, then kitchens are scored. First, you use sets of one restaurant and one star chef; those two cards together are jokers for any other card or allow you to remove an unwanted card from your kitchen – some monsters score points according to their number in the kitchen or lose you points when you have too many or score in groups; the chef only scores if you have monsters depicted on his card in your kitchen, etc.

A nice vexing game – you sick monsters onto others to lose them points, and uuups, all of a sudden you have a fourth florist and either need a fifth or get rid of the fourth one! Witty set collecting with a vengeance!

Players: 2-6

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Anna Voinova

Artist: Viktor Zaburdaev, Natela Manushakyan

Price: ca. 12 Euro

Publisher: HUCH! 2019

Web: www.hutter-trade.com

Genre: Set collecting

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Nice design

Set collecting with some vexation

Many scoring criteria

Compares to:

Other Sest collecting games

Other editions:

Cosmodrome 2017 (en)

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0