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A culinary card game that feels like you’re competing on your favorite cooking show - without destroying the kitchen. Grab your starting hand - Every player starts the game by grabbing five ingredient cards and five dish cards for their own hand, along with a piece of paper and a pencil. Pick the Head Chef - One player takes a turn as the Head Chef each round. The Head Chef starts the round by picking a card from the Special Occasion Deck and a card from the Ingredient deck (which is now the secret ingredient). 5 minutes to create a dish - All the players now have 5 minutes to write down a unique recipe for a dish that utilizes the cards in their hand and the secret ingredient, something they would bring to that round’s special occasion. Present and judge - Once the five minutes are up, all the players take turns presenting their recipes to the head chef. The head chef picks one person to win, and that winner accumulates points for the ingredient and dish cards they used in their recipe. Repeat - Players continue playing rounds by redrawing cards and taking turns as the Head Chef. First player to reach 25 points wins!

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Traverse the jungle to narrow down possibilities and crack the hidden code! The Lost Code is a deduction game for 2 to 4 players where everyone has a combination of unique numbered tiles to find, based on the numbers that other players have. The game comes with 54 unique tiles numbered from 0 to 8 and equally divided in 6 different colors. Players are given a tile of each color to store in their logs with the values facing the opponents. During each round, a player rolls 3 dice and everyone will have to guess the sum of their numbers in the colors drawn by the dice.  Using your logic, you will determine a range that includes the sum of the numbers you think you have and pick one of the available guessing wheels, setting it in a way that includes that value. Other players will now tell you whether your guessing was correct or not, awarding victory points if necessary. At the end of the game, once you narrowed down the precise numbers you think you have, you place your final guessing for the single numbers in every color you currently have, scoring -or losing!- even more points.

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Build sky scrapers and develop transport in the city that never sleeps. A game of New York City is played over 5 game rounds. First, players each draw 3 cards from the deck. Then deal out cards in sets of two cards equal to two times the number of players plus one additional. In turn order, players draft a pair of cards until they have a total of 7 cards in hand. Next comes the bidding round, where in turn order players will play cards to bid to determine the strength of their action, with the player who bids the highest getting a bonus. In order, the actions are: Press: Advance on the Press track to determine player and tie-breaking order. Money: Receive money to be used for special actions. Characters: Take a character with a special ability or scoring up to the value of cards played. Building plans: Take a number of skyscrapers from the general supply. Prestige: Receive points equal to your bidding value. I addition, the first and second place bidder gets to increase the value of a borough. Skyscrapers: Players place skyscrapers from their board into borough currently being visited by the mayor. The game is played over five rounds (there are six boroughs, one is randomly not visited each game). Each game, the value of boroughs is randomly assigned, and the player with the most skyscrapers in a a borough receives full value, and the next player receiving half, and so on. There is also a bonus for building in every borough. Points are also awarded for certain characters, and the player with the most points is the winner. Based on Rialto, a previously designed game by Stefan Feld.

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