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Grandma, the best baker in town, has decided to retire and pass on her book of recipes, which she has carefully selected and perfected over the years.
Interested?
Well, it looks like you’re not the only one, as the family and friends are all secretly hoping the book will be theirs!
But Grandma has a test for you! She has sent out letters containing recipes to everybody. But wait – it looks like the letters only contain parts of the recipes! Can you get the missing information from your family and friends by trading in some of your information, and bake Grandma’s famous dessert?
Prepare for a series of deciphering clues and sealing pacts, to see who will impress Grandma the most and become a worthy successor to her recipe book!
In Secret Recipe, each player receives one or two pieces of the recipe with 4 hidden ingredients that only they know. The goal of the game is to impress grandma and score Grandma’s points (GPs). You can do that by discovering other people’s ingredients, which moves you forward on the score track.
You also gain points and other bonuses for communicating your ingredients so that other people discover them. This marks the progress you are making in baking your part of the recipe and brings you point tokens. These points are revealed at the end of the game. The player with the most GPs wins!
—description from the publisher
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Secret recipe is a game of deduction among the components
- it's best to play this game with two players
- we are using a prototype copy of the game so the rules and components are not final
- the two player rules are still in development
- you'll win points when you guess your opponents and when they guess you
References (from this video)
- Best played with two players (per setup guidance)
- Clue and deduction scoring mechanism rewarding both guessing opponents and having your own ingredients guessed
- Endgame scoring with secret tokens adds tension
- Two-player rules are still in development
- Prototype copy; rules and components are not final
- determining recipes via deduction
- classroom
- didactic/instructional
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Clue tokens system (Arrow, Yes/No, Greater/Less, Cross) — Clue tokens are placed next to ingredients to signal possible identities; includes weight clues and cross tokens to negate possibilities.
- Deduction — Clue tokens are placed next to ingredients to signal possible identities; includes weight clues and cross tokens to negate possibilities.
- End Game Bonuses — Players draw tokens that grant points or endgame benefits; endgame triggers when a player has unrevealed ingredients.
- Endgame and token-based scoring — Players draw tokens that grant points or endgame benefits; endgame triggers when a player has unrevealed ingredients.
- Hidden information with player boards and stands — Each player marks their ingredients on a personal board with a stand to keep information hidden from opponents.
- Pantry grid deduction with ingredient tiles — Players use a pantry grid and tokens to indicate which ingredients may belong to which players, crossing out impossible options.
- Think and Collect guesses — Think guesses are low risk/low reward; collect guesses are high risk/high reward and are resolved in turn order.
- Two-phase turns (Actions phase and Discussion phase) — Active player takes actions to gain information, then players discuss and guess.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Secret recipe is a game of deduction among the components
- it's best to play this game with two players
- we are using a prototype copy of the game so the rules and components are not final
- the two player rules are still in development
- you'll win points when you guess your opponents and when they guess you