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Burger Boss

Serve customers, earn money

 

As boss of a Fast Food Restaurant you must keep making decisions - hire employees or buy more ingredients? Upgrade your kitchen or go for quick sales? Supermarket or Manager’s Special?

You start the game with a secret mission, for instance “serve two burgers with cheese”. In Phase 1 of each round two new customers appear in the display underneath the slots for serving sizes of portions, having varying orders to place. In Phase 2, turn order is determined; all roll all their dice secretly, reveal dice for use at their choice and add the values of the dice they want to use; the sums in ascending order determine turn order. In Phase 3, you place the revealed dice as workers, for ingredients additional dice, shopping at the Supermarket, getting special cards from the manager, kitchen expansion with grill/fridge or using grill/fridge. Ingredients on the grill move during the game and can be forfeit unused. Phase 4 is the Sales phase; in turn order, you can sell completed burgers to customers and take the respective customer cards. Then unserved customers in the display are moved further to the right and are removed, if the reach the end.

When all customers in the queue have been served or have been removed, you sell your remaining food on your grill(s) and win with most money from sales and bonuses from completed secret mission cards.

A nice topic, not new, using a mechanism that is also not really new, combined into a rather interesting game. The faster you acquire additional dice, the better you can use the attractive „I choose which of my dice to use“ mechanism to your advantage for turn order or placement.

 

Players: 3-5

Age: 8+

Time: 45+

Designer: Annis Araim, Saad + Zubbar Choudri, Michael Pambos, Dilwar Rahim

Artist: Shane Nitzsche

Price: ca. 40 Euro

Publisher: Legend Express 2015

Web: www.legendexpress.net

Genre: Worker placement with dice

Users: With friends

Version: multi

Rules: de en

In-game text: yes

 

Comments:

Nice topic

Suitable also for families with gaming experience

Lots of options for the various dice results

Plays quickly

 

Compares to:

Kingsburg and other Worker placement games using dice values

 

Other editions:

Currently none

 

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0