Cooking Noodles
Cooking Noodles Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Game Components
- 52 Food Cards:
- 7 Noodle Cards (blue mark)
- 15 Seasoning Cards (red mark)
- 30 Ingredient Cards (green mark)
- 8 Fridge Cards
Game Setup
- Shuffle all the Food Cards into a deck and place it in the center of the table.
- Select 4 Fridge Cards and place them next to the card deck. Leave space below them to place the Food Cards later in the game.
- Randomly shuffle all the food cards.
Starting Hand
The starting player draws 3 cards, while the other players draw 4 cards each. The last player draws 5 cards.
Player Turn
On your turn, choose 1 of 4 possible actions:
- Draw 2 cards.
- Play a card to your tableau.
- Pick a card from any Fridge.
- Donate to a Fridge.
Play a Card
- Cards must be played to the far left or far right.
- Cards must share a symbol on shared sides.
Donate to a Fridge
Donate more cards than in the Fridge for the benefit.
Note: the leaflet's illustration shows a food card icon, a greater-than sign and a fridge icon, but the printed text does not spell out what the "benefit" is. It is transcribed as printed.
Winning by Scoring
Game Objective
Build a tableau of food cards that scores 7 points.
Cards must share a symbol on shared sides.
Points Are Scored as Follows
- Ingredient (green) cards always score 1 point each.
- Noodle cards (blue) only score 1 point, no matter how many you have in the tableau.
- Seasoning (red) cards score 1 point each when placed next to a Noodle (blue).
End of the Game
The game ends immediately when a player reaches a score of 7 and that player wins the game.
Fridge Card Instructions
There are 8 Fridge Cards in total, but only 4 will be used in each game.
For the first game, it is recommended to use the following green Fridge Cards.
Note: the four example Fridge Cards pictured on the leaflet show their names and effect text in very small print. In the photographed leaflet this text is not legible, so the individual card texts are not transcribed here.