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Year
2024
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Description
Welcome to the Sweet Mess Pastry Competition. You have worked hard to get here and the master chef cannot wait to see how you handle his famous recipes. The Sweet Mess kitchen is chaotic and, of course—messy! Work smarter and more efficiently than the other contestants and you might just come away victorious. May the best chef win!
Throughout the competition, you will gather Ingredients from Bowls, Prepare Recipes, and Complete them to claim Awards. The more Recipes you Complete, the more skillful you become and the more points you will receive. You can use special kitchen Tools and Golden Tokens to gain tactical advantages.
Ready… Set… Bake!
—description from the publisher
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The Dice Tower Top List at 0:56 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Nice components, almost overly nice with these little poker chips.
- Looks really delicious.
- Has a chef with a special ability.
- Fun to take all these ingredients, put them together, and make delicious desserts.
Cons
- A little odd that you're a messy baker, which you wouldn't necessarily be.
Thematic elements
- Pastry competition
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- scoring — Using those pastries to score and get points for various things.
- Set Collection — You are constantly kind of grabbing stuff, collecting these chips and then using these chips to make different pastries. The chips have different ingredients on them.
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Quotes (from this video)
- It took a long time, decades before many food games really came out, which is a weird thing to me because the world kind of revolves around food.
- There are a lot of cute food games that I could put on the list. I mean, this list could I could have probably done a top 100 food games. There's so many.
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The Board Game Garden Discussion at 8:52 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- excellent production & components
- cozy theme with strong production values
Cons
- some players may find storage rules dense
Thematic elements
- culinary arts and friendly rivalry
- pastry competition with dessert-themed cooking
- story behind the campaign and changes in publishing
Comparison games
- Cascadia
- Forever Home
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- set-collection and storage puzzle — Take ingredients from bowls, create storage layout, and fulfill recipes.
- Square Grid — Storage grid requires specific placements to manage ingredients efficiently.
- weighty storage grid — Storage grid requires specific placements to manage ingredients efficiently.
Video topics + discussion points
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Quotes (from this video)
- Hadrian's Wall is my favorite game of all time
- I love the theme, it warms my heart
- The end of the first chapter broke my heart
- Portals is an abstract strategy game
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