Something delicious is cooking up in the kitchen, and as a talented chef, it’s up to you to carefully carve up the right ingredients and turn them into culinary masterpieces. Prepare a wide variety of recipes from around the world, and hype them up to earn extra praise!
In Diced Veggies you take turns with the cleaver, slicing ingredient dice away from the shared chopping block and assigning them to the recipes you’re working on. This unique resource-gathering mechanism is the key to your scrumptious success. The particular veggies that your recipes require isn't your only consideration... you can only take a limited number of pips with each chop, and the right dice values can unlock all sorts of drool-worthy Hypes to boost a recipe's score!
A clever cleaver is all you need to whip up delicious recipes in this dice-slicing game for up to four chefs!
—description from the publisher
- cute, family-friendly
- easy to learn
- appeals to kids and adults
- dice management can get chaotic with younger players
- recipe creation with dice as ingredients
- Family kitchen / cooking theme
- cute, light-hearted
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Dice rolling — dice are rolled to determine ingredients and actions
- set collection — players collect recipe cards to complete meals
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Black Friday is still traditionally where everybody just go out and knock each other out the way trying to get stuff
- it's Christmas time
- we're going to talk about Black Friday game suggestions
References (from this video)
- accessible and fast
- fun coordination of dice
- thematic depth may be light
- cute kitchen chaos
- kitchen/dice cooking theme
- family-friendly
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- dice drafting / chopping — dice pool used to fulfill recipes; you can steal dice from others
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- none of these games have like an official solo mode but I really wish that they did
- I would play it way more if I could just play it by myself
- I would love a solo mode for Fort
- Hookie is one of my all-time favorite games
References (from this video)
- Unique knife drafting mechanism
- Light and quick gameplay
- Interesting solo mode
- Good component quality
- Potentially too light for serious gamers
- Recipe preparation
- Kitchen/Cooking
- Dice drafting cooking simulation
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- dice drafting — Players use a knife to cut and select dice representing vegetable ingredients
- Recipe completion — Players collect dice to fulfill recipe requirements
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- I don't really think it's a gimmick
- This is not similar to anything in my collection
References (from this video)
- stellar artwork and cute presentation
- family-friendly, accessible for kids and adults
- engaging dice mechanic with satisfying decisions
- can feel tight on choices late in the game
- endgame pacing may vary by player count
- recipe-building and quick-order fulfillment
- kitchen/cooking theme with colorful ingredients
- light, approachable family theme
- Kitchen Rush
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- dice drafting — take outer dice from a block, with restrictions on which dice can be taken
- End-game trigger — when someone completes seven recipes, the game ends
- hand management — manage dice pool and hype cards to optimize scoring
- pattern/recipe fulfillment — use dice to complete recipes and trigger hype cards
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- I freaking love Star Wars Rebellion; it felt like I was in the universe
- the artwork on the recipes is Stellar
- no downtime because when you take an action there's something for everybody else to do
- it's not a hard game but it's fiddly
- this is definitely more of a me game than you game
References (from this video)
- Beautiful dice aesthetics
- Simple to learn but with strategic depth
- Great kitchen/restaurant theme
- Rules nuance can take a couple of plays to grasp
- cooking and recipes
- restaurant/kitchen
- light, thematic
- Kitchen Rush
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- dice drafting — Draft colored dice representing ingredients to fulfill recipes.
- Pips-based bonuses — Pips on dice influence bonuses and limits.
- Set/recipe building — Assemble ingredients to build recipes and fulfill orders.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- This game is so ridiculously fun
- it's not simple it is very difficult to figure out how to move these cards around in your hand
- I challenge you to find somebody who doesn't think this game is fun
- it's basically Sudoku puzzle
- it's also such a simple like mechanically easy game but it shouldn't be as fun as it is
References (from this video)
- fun tactile dice interaction
- clever pun on dicedness and presentation
- satisfying to see diced veggies on the table
- dice luck can dominate some sessions
- theme may feel thin without strong visuals
- Culinary prep and presentation with a playful twist
- A veggie-cutting kitchen with diced pieces used for scoring
- Quirky, food-forward narration
- No Thanks
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- dice placement — Dice are used as veg items; players arrange them to fulfill scoring patterns.
- pattern-building — Players build patterns on their player boards to maximize points from diced veggies.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- I am in fact a dog see here are my feet uh and that's my face with my tall ears and this is me eating a dog treat
- my number one game of all time is a little game called exploding kittens
- this bone can get bit watch me bite
- I would rather just eat the food
- there cannot be too many bones