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Chef Alfredo

One Chef and four pots of soup

Chef Alfredo makes the best soups, but unfortunately he has forgotten which soup is bubbling in which pot on the stove. Four ingredients - carrots, tomatoes, string beans and garlic - are laid out on the board. Four pots are equipped with one recipe tile each - again carrots, tomatoes, string beans and garlic - and placed on the stove spots on the board.

Players are active in turn in clockwise direction; at the start of the game all take a look into the pots and check which ingredient is in which pot. Then you roll the die: When the die shows Chef Alfredo, you switch two pots on the stove. If you roll an ingredient, you take a tile of this kind, open a pot and put the ingredient in. Then you check the pot, but do not announce if you did make a mistake. Then your left neighbor leaves the die unchanged and can either believe you or doubt. If he believes you, you take a cooking tile and pass your turn to your left neighbor who rolls the die for his turn. If your neighbor doubts you, he opens the pot, empties it and compares the recipe tile to your die result: If they correspond, you take a cooking tile. If not, your neighbor gets one. All ingredients that came out of the pot go into stock. Attention! It does not matter if there are wrong ingredients in the pot - only die result and recipe tile are compared, as you put an ingredient into the pot according to the die result. When all cooking tiles have been given out, you win with most of them.

Believe or not believe - a familiar standard mechanism has been very attractively varied; the control mechanism is an especially nice detail, simple and well-working. All in all a nice game for kids with pretty components.

Players: 2-4

Age: 5+

Time: 15+

Designer: Michael Schacht

Artist: Oliver Schlemmer

Price: ca. 30 Euro

Publisher: Queen Games 2015

Web: www.queen-games.de

Genre: Memo, dice

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr

In-game text: no

Comments:

Series: Queen Kids

Very attractive game components

Simple and efficient control mechanism

Compares to:

All memo games with believe-or-not mechanism

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 3

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0