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We will wok you!

Broccoli for rock musicians!

Wok cooking during the Wok Festival with Wok Musicians! Small wonder that ingredients are missing! Always problems with the competitor!

You collect coins in order to buy ingredients which you then use to acquire woks. Six ingredients are available in varying quantities and each ingredient cards shows 0, 1 or 2 symbols out of five different ones - Fortune Cookie, Spoon, Bowl, Eating Sticks or Star, the star is a joker for all the other symbols.

Ingredients, woks and coins are arranged in rows and groups according specifications based on the number of players. In your turn you have one of three actions: Collect coins, buy a row of ingredients (not a single ingredient!) or take a wok card. You are not allowed to pass. Empty rows are replenished; coins go back into the display when you buy ingredients. Wok cards are taken by laying out ingredient cards; you do not discard those cards but keep them on display. The ingredients you lay out to buy a wok must show four identical symbols. You cannot use those ingredients later in the game to acquire another wok; you need ingredients from your hand for a wok.  If you take coins you reduce the price for a row; if you buy a row you place the coins next to it and raise the price for this row.

When two rows of ingredients are empty, you allocate ingredients on display, ingredients from your hand and the Man-at-Wok (The Cook) to your woks and win with most points.

The allure of this set collecting game comes from the price mechanism, its ups and downs, and the dilemma that you only can acquire money by lowering the cost of ingredients for your opponents.

Players:  2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Sebastian Bleasdale

Art: Michael Menzel

Price: ca. 13 Euro

Publisher: Pegasus Spiele 2012

Web: www.pegasus.de

Genre: Card collecting and placement game

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Funny topic

Simple rules

Interesting money acquisition mechanism

Compares to:

Set collection games

Other editions:

Currently none

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