Welcome to the Sweet Mess baking 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 with the victory. May the best chef win!
Throughout the competition you will gather ingredients from bowls, mix them together, put them in the oven, and bake them to get awarded. The more recipes you complete, the more skillful you become and the more Cooking Points you receive. Bake them in the best possible manner to get baking bonus points. Use kitchen tools to aid you and take advantage of random kitchen events. Ready…Set…Bake!
—description from the publisher
- Clever storage limitations mechanic
- Tight and efficient race to get awards
- Good balance between awards and engine building
- Engine building aspect is enjoyable
- Original Kickstarter was not fulfilled
- Pastry Competition
- Splendor
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- contract fulfillment — A simple contract fulfillment game and that's yeah that's not a style of game that typically excites me I get resource I find resources efficiently I spend them on the contracts and that's kind of all it is.
- Engine Building — You can build your it's like almost like Splendor in the way where you know if you have things you can fit into jar and then that means that you have that permanent resources.
- Resource Management — You've got different combinations you can hold you've got one column that can hold four different resources you've got one column that can hold up to four of the same and you've got one column that can hold up to two pairs of different.
- Set Collection — Each of the contracts has a type of pastry on it and as you get combinations of those you can get Awards.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Welcome to our top games of August 2023
- Please also let us know what is your top game or games in this month
- Inside job was I believe a Gen Con release
- It's the fourth game in the Forbidden series
- This one was definitely a Gen Con released
- Forest Shuffle this was another Gen Con release
- Great Western Trail New Zealand
- Last Light by Royal Kennedy and Gray Fox Games
- Rubber Paper Scissors
- Sweet Mess Pastry Competition
- My most favorite out of the Great Western Trail series ever being made ever ever
- Hopefully you've been doing bread you have a great day great weekend and we'll see you next time bye