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The Jam

Pick berries, cook Jam

A nice cup of tea and some aromatic strawberry jam with it or Circassian walnut preserve, and don’t let us forget some tasty cherry pie! So let’s go and pick berries, cook jam and bake pies!

Each player is dealt one task card each for pies, jam and the Grand Tea Party and in the end scores for jam, pies and completed task, but one component can only be assigned to one task. You have four cards in hand, eight cards are on display as the Basket for additional ingredients. In your turn you draw a card – Karlsmann or the Bear are implemented instantly; you bid with jam for Karlsmann, The Bear goes instantly the the player who currently has most pies. Then you can swap completed recipes with other players or give them away or agree on barter in future rounds; but you cannot add cards from hand or the Basket for such a barter. Then you can play a card to make jam, pies or fruit salad; you always play the necessary recipe card and ingredient cards: If you want to make jam, you take them from your hand and from the Basket, for a pie the jam must come from your own display, and for the fruit salad you can only use cards from the Basket. At the end of the turn you place cards on recipes completed in earlier turns into the Basket. When the cards are used, you add your points for your score, The Bear and Karlsmann score additional points.  The fun of this game comes from the different demands for different sources of cards for the individual recipes, and in the optimum combination of pies and jams for making up the tasks; don’t let the calculations at the end deter you from the pleasure in this game.

Players: 2-4

Age: 10+

Time: 60+

Designer: Sergej Machin

Artist: Sergej Machin

Price: ca. 14 Euros

Publisher: RBG 2012

Web: www.russianboardgames.com

Genre: card game

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en + fr ru

In-game text: no

Comments:

Pretty design

Nice, unusual topic

Quite a lot of calculation at the end of the game

Compares to:

Other set collecting games with different stages for sets

Other editions:

Russian first edition at Rightgames

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 1

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