Like a lot of card games, players gather around a central draw pile and discard pile (called The Pantry). Something like this:
Each chef works to collect and complete Dish Cards to earn coins. You may play a Dish Card from your hand into the space in front of you, and immediately start assembling the required Ingredient Cards to complete the Dish.
But watch out! Other chefs are out to spoil you, and they can play action cards onto any dish in progress.
Place the entire deck in the middle of the table (take out the rules cards first). After deciding who goes first (we like letting the youngest or the oldest go first), that chef starts the game.
The winner is the chef that can earn the most coin by the end of the game. See: Winning for complete details.
Each turn follows three basic phases. For quick reference, keep the rule card out on the table. On each turn:
At the start of your turn, draw up to 7 cards into your hand. If the pantry pile is available, you may also draw from that pile.
Be smart! Draw your cards from the draw pile or pantry pile one-at-a-time, you never know if you'll pull a card that will suddenly make an ingredient in the pantry a must-have. Good chefs are versitile!
Always start your turn with 7 cards.
If you don't like your 7 cards, you may discard your entire hand, into the pantry, face up, and draw 7 new cards, ending your turn immediately.
During your turn, you can play any number of cards. You can play dish cards in the space in front of you, ingredient cards under the dish, and action cards to add coins to your own dishes or to sabotage the dishes of others.
On the table, you may only be working on 3 active dishes at one time. If you complete or drop a dish, you may start on a new dish in the empty slot.
Your goal as a chef is to complete dishes worth the most coin. See: The Anatomy of a Dish for more information.
Place any unwanted cards back into the pantry, face-up, next to the draw pile. Any chef can draw from this pile, so stack carefully! The more cards you discard, the more cards you'll be able to draw at the start of your next turn.
When you're done with your turn, tell the next chef so they can start their turn.
Let's take a look at a finished dish card, complete with multiple action cards, good and bad, attached:
Take note of a few things
Once a dish is final, it is safe from future action cards. Gather the cards and turn the dish sideways, to mark it complete.
The game is over when any chef completes 3 dishes. The winner is the chef that has earned the most coins on their completed dishes. Only dishes that are complete with all ingredients can be tallied.
Take note of any action cards that may add or subtract coins from your dishes.
Mogul Mode! Instead of playing to 3 dishes, this mode is a race to 10 coins, regardless of how many dishes it takes. Got what it takes to be the top earner?
Use Action Cards to turn up the heat! Target other Chefs, give yourself more Coin, block to play defense. When an Action Card is played, discard it to the bottom of The Pantry card pile.
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