Sweet Mess Pastry Competition

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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• 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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Quotes (from this video)

• the chefatron is a heartless and efficient pastry making machine
• you are playing a two-player game against the chefatron
• the seventh and final step of chefatron's turn is to claim exactly one award if possible
• What we've shown you is the harder mode of the game where you resolve every icon on the chefatron's cards
• end will be triggered by one player gaining three Awards

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Quotes (from this video)

• Sweet Mass pastry competition is played in turns starting from the first player and going clockwise around the table
• the end of game is triggered once somebody scores a third award and a player with the highest score wins
• this is the deluxe edition of the game the standard layout has these same Seven slots but in a different order
• solo mode where you'll compete in a two-player game against a robot Chef

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Action boxes and golden tokens — On a turn, a player moves their action marker to a new box and selects one of the two actions there; if they have golden tokens they may spend one to take the second action in the box.
• Action Points — On a turn, a player moves their action marker to a new box and selects one of the two actions there; if they have golden tokens they may spend one to take the second action in the box.
• End Game Bonuses — The game ends after a third award is scored; final scoring includes various bonuses and tie-breakers.
• Endgame and tie-breakers — The game ends after a third award is scored; final scoring includes various bonuses and tie-breakers.
• Event and bonus effects — Event cards can alter the game state; bonus actions can be resolved when an award is claimed.
• Events — Event cards can alter the game state; bonus actions can be resolved when an award is claimed.
• Gaining ingredients — Left-side actions relate to gaining ingredients from bowls or leftovers from a display.
• Making a mess — When a bowl is emptied, a 'making a mess' refill occurs affecting neighboring bowls and shifting tokens.
• Recipe — Players may reserve recipes by spending a tool card and later prepare them, unlocking victory points.
• Recipes, prepping, advancing, and awards — Players prepare recipes, advance them on a track, and cash them in for awards, with scoring tied to top/bottom shelf awards.
• Reserved recipes — Players may reserve recipes by spending a tool card and later prepare them, unlocking victory points.
• solo mode — There is a solo mode where a two-player game is played against a robot Chef.
• Storage jars and stored ingredients — Stored ingredients provide permanent discounts; jars allow moving ingredients to storage in a dedicated slot.
• tool cards — Tool cards grant bonus actions and can be drawn, looked at, stored, and played to gain or swap ingredients.
• Turn structure with four phases — Players take turns resolving four phases indicated on their player board: taking actions, reserving/preparing reserved recipes, advancing recipes, and claiming awards, followed by cleanup.
• Variable Phase Order — Players take turns resolving four phases indicated on their player board: taking actions, reserving/preparing reserved recipes, advancing recipes, and claiming awards, followed by cleanup.

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Quotes (from this video)

• Sweet Mass pastry competition is played in turns starting from the first player and going clockwise around the table
• the end of game is triggered once somebody scores a third award and a player with the highest score wins
• this is the deluxe edition of the game the standard layout has these same Seven slots but in a different order
• solo mode where you'll compete in a two-player game against a robot Chef

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• activate_arm — The drawn card indicates which arm (claw or scoop) is active for the round.
• awards_and_scoring — During the turn, attempt to claim an award by matching icons, with tie-breaking rules and potential golden tokens.
• craft_and_complete_recipe — Choose a valid recipe from the board, using stored ingredients and minimizing super ingredients to complete it.
• difficulty_variants — Multiple variants to adjust difficulty, including hard mode, different tokens, or other modular variants.
• Draw_card — At the start of the chefatron's turn, draw the next card to determine which arm is active and the primary direction.
• End Game Bonuses — End condition triggered when a player gains three awards; the current round is completed.
• end_game_trigger — End condition triggered when a player gains three awards; the current round is completed.
• force_field_and_steal — Place a force field on a bowl; the bowl's ingredients interact with the force field and the bot may steal ingredients.
• move_arm — Move the active arm a number of steps as indicated by the card, with wrapping around rows.
• place_and_store — Place gained ingredients onto the storage space; ingredients may be stored or converted into super ingredients.
• Recipe — Choose a valid recipe from the board, using stored ingredients and minimizing super ingredients to complete it.
• resolve_primary_effect — Apply the primary effect on the card, including taking storage jars and potentially gaining ingredients.
• secondary_effect_and_completion — Resolve the secondary effect, often enabling the completion of a level one or two recipe.
• select_ingredients — The active arm picks ingredients from the specified row, choosing the bowl with the most ingredients and breaking ties by the arm's primary direction.

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Quotes (from this video)

• the chefatron is a heartless and efficient pastry making machine
• you are playing a two-player game against the chefatron
• the seventh and final step of chefatron's turn is to claim exactly one award if possible
• What we've shown you is the harder mode of the game where you resolve every icon on the chefatron's cards
• end will be triggered by one player gaining three Awards

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