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L’Atelier des Chefs

Pancake flipping with cards

In cooperation with the organization of the same name, a Cooking School in Paris, Cocktail Games publishes a party and dexterity game with cards; you must complete tasks using the deck of cards, either each player alone in turn or all players together. If you comply best you receive a star, if you are first to collect five stars you win. In case of a tied result all players involved in the tie receive a star. The task cards are either white or yellow on the front side and show markings for the realization of the task – each player on his own or all together, using the timer or not. The deck must be well shuffled before handing it to the next player for his task.

All tasks have a culinary context, either for preparing or to recipes; for instance for „pancake baking“ you must snip cards one by one from the stack while the timer runs and try turn over as many as you can to show the reverse side. “Egg separating” asks you to halve the well-shuffled deck and then turn up cards and place them underneath the left stack when they are white and under the right one if they are yellow, you win the star with the fewest “wrong” cards in both stacks. Or you must be the first to name the ingredient that shows most often of five cards laid out showing the back side. For “Puff Pastry”, you must achieve the most cards sorted into the order white-yellow-white etc. without putting cards down on the table.

A downright funny game! The tasks are all unusual but manageable, the culinary context comprehensible and well-chosen. All in all, this is one of the most amusing dexterity games that I know and on top of it improves your French!

Players: 2-6

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer: Cyril Blondel

Artist: Olivier Fagnère

Price: ca- 11 Euro

Publisher: Cocktail Games 2011

Web: www.cocktailgames.com

Genre: Dexterity game with cards

Users: For families

Version: fr

Rules: fr

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Cooperation with Cooking School L’atelier des Chefs

Comes with recipes

Cute game idea

Simple texts, good for freshening up your French

Compares to:

Basically all dexterity games, first game of particular kind

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 3