The kitchen is calm. Too calm. All of a sudden, the chaos begins: as bits of cheese fall off the table, mice scurry in to snatch them up!
The cat, who was patiently waiting for this moment, extends their claws and leaps onto the rodents. But they didn’t notice the dog, who suddenly appears with their mouth wide open…
This chaotic crowd chases and squabbles with each other all around the room until the infuriated innkeeper bangs on a pot to disperse the would-be thieves. After all that hubbub, can you remember how much cheese there actually was?
In Cheese Master players are rolling all dice and need to be as fast as possible to figure out how many cheese are left on the floor. Each die will show animal faces or cheese pieces and create a funny interaction that you will need to understand before your opponents.
They are 4 cheeses but 2 mice eating cheese, 1 cat is there, chasing a mice but before they do so, the dog is making the cat running away. So how many cheese pieces are left?
Be quick as the slowest of players will not even be able to take a guess!
—description from the publisher
- Quick gameplay
- Cool modularity
- Solid worker placement
- No downtime
- Maybe less balanced than the newer version
- Cheese making
- France
- Majio
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Engine Building — Upgrade your facilities to gain bonuses.
- Set Collection — Make cheese on these slices because each of them will give you victory points in different ways.
- Simultaneous action selection — All players do their turns at the same time.
- Worker Placement — Send one worker up here doing this action. And the other one you have to send to make cheese.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- It's like final girl but co-op version with multiple players.
- It's just not for me. I'd rather have bajillion resources and then figure out the most efficient way rather than having a game where you start out, do bad, and then realize I should really like restart everything.
- This was a card game in a video game. Now it's a card game in not a video game.
- Video game enter is much more fun than this.
- It's essentially a two-player role playing game.
- It could have been one of the best thematic games ever.
- Company of Heroes is a war game unlike I've any played.
- This is kind of like that [Warhammer], but so accessible and very strategic.
- It's a solid worker placement game with no downtime, simple rules, and pretty cool decisions.
References (from this video)
- chaotic and fun
- chaos can be hard to track
- chaotic party game
- tabletop session
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- multi-player interaction — Fast-paced turns with chaos and humor; social pressure to perform.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- May the 4th be with you.
- it's kind of like gamma in Canada, and it's for content creators as well as like board game industry people designers.
- remember you are somebody's reason to smile.
- it's such a fun weekend and I had the time of my life.
- I really want to get a copy of spots cuz it's very fun.
- Nana is a card game from Japan but they recently came out with another version of it here in North America by Happy Camper Games called Trio if you see Trio I definitely recommend you pick it up