Kitchen Rush: Piece of Cake
Kitchen Rush: Piece of Cake Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
1. Components
42 Cards: 30 Orders, 8 Specialist Abilities, 1 Ice-Cream Objective, 2 Prestige Bonuses, 1 Upgrade. 1 Rulebook. 4 Player Mat Extensions.
24 Custom Wooden Tokens (Ingredients): 12 Crème tokens, 12 Fruit tokens.
12 Wooden Cubes (Spices): 12 Brown cubes.
30 Wooden Domes (Ice-Cream Scoops): 6 White domes, 6 Pink domes, 6 Green domes, 6 Brown domes, 6 Yellow domes.
1 Hourglass (Specialist).
32 Cardboard Tokens: 20 Ice-Cream Orders, 6 Ice-Cream plates, 4 Specialist tokens, 1 Locked token, 1 Unavailable token.
1 Cardboard 3D Freezer.
1 Game Board (New Board).
2. Components Anatomy
Dessert Orders: Expansion Symbol; Refrigeration Time; Ice-Cream Requirement; Dessert Order Indicator.
Specialist Abilities: Ability Name; Ability Effect.
Ice-Cream Objective: Number of Players; Difficulty Level; Number of Ice-Cream Orders Required.
Ice-Cream Orders: Ice-Cream Indicator; Ice-Cream Scoops Required; Prestige Reward; Money Reward.
Player Mat Extensions: Refrigeration Time.
3D Freezer: The 3D Freezer is used during the game to store your ice-cream scoops. Before playing for the first time, assemble it as shown in the following diagram.
Ice-Cream Objective table. The card lists the number of Ice-Cream Orders required for each difficulty level and player count (the card's player-count icons read 2, 3 and 4 from left to right):
| Difficulty Level | 2 players | 3 players | 4 players |
|---|---|---|---|
| Easy | 4 | 6 | 8 |
| Normal | 6 | 9 | 12 |
| Hard | 8 | 12 | 16 |
| Very Hard | 9 | 13 | 18 |
Example Specialist Ability card (Charismatic): "When using the Maitre d' action, you may reveal up to 4 Orders."
Ice-Cream Scoops. The colored domes represent ice-cream scoops of different flavors.
- White: Vanilla or Cookies.
- Brown: Chocolate.
- Pink: Strawberry.
- Yellow: Lemon or Banana.
- Light Green: Pistachio.
Ingredients. The Ingredients in the game represent many different types of ingredients used in actual cooking.
- Crème: All types of cream (whipped, whipping, butter etc).
- Fruit: All types of fruit (strawberry, cherry, orange etc).
Spice. The colored cubes represent various spices and herbs.
- Common Spices. Brown: Chocolate Chips & Nuts.
Game Board. The game board consists of various areas (like Shopping, Fridge, Freezer etc) with each one containing one or more action spaces.
Areas shown on the board diagram: 3D Freezer Area; Ice-Cream Orders Area; New Action Spaces; Order Deck Area.
3. Setup
When setting up the game using Piece of Cake, include the following steps:
- Place the New Board next to the game board.
- Place the Specialist Hourglass next to the game board.
- Place a Locked token on one of the Fridge spaces. If playing with 2 players, place also an Unavailable token.
- Place 2 additional coins on the Office area.
- Take all 5 Upgrades and place them face-up near the Office area. When playing with the expansion they are all available to get when using the Office action.
- Give each player a Player Mat Extension. They should partially slide it beneath their Player Mat as shown in the picture below.
- Place piles of all new Ingredients, Spices and Ice-Cream scoops near the boards, within reach of all players.
- Place the Ice-Cream Objective card next to your chosen Objective. In addition to the chosen Objective's requirements, you will have to complete a number of Ice-Cream Orders, as indicated on the card.
- Shuffle the Ice-Cream Orders and place them face-down on the Ice-Cream Orders area.
- Shuffle the Dessert Orders in the Order deck and place it on the Order Deck area face-down.
- Add brown cubes in the bag, equal to the number of white/green/black cubes (either 1, 2 or 3).
- Place the 3D Freezer on the designated area. Fill it with ice-cream scoops according to the number of players:
| Players | White | Brown | Pink | Yellow | Green |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-2 Players | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 Players | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 4 Players | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Make sure to place the lid on top of the Freezer afterwards.
- Add to each Storage area Crème and Fruit tokens equal to the number of the Salad/Pasta/Cheese/Bread tokens (either 2 or 3).
- Add to the Clean Plates Area a number of Ice-Cream plates equal to the number of sized- I / II / III plates (either 2, 3 or 4). Add one Ice-Cream plate to the Dirty Plates Area and another one along with the plates near the Office area.
- Shuffle the Specialist Ability cards and draw 3 of them. Place them face-up next to the board so that all players can see them. Place a Specialist token on each Ability card's corresponding Action space on the board (see Specialist on page 13).
- Shuffle the two new Prestige Bonuses with the rest.
Upgrades (Office action). The five Upgrade cards are shown with their costs:
- Storage area: Cost 4.
- Oven space: Cost 3.
- Plates: Cost 1.
- Helper: Cost 2.
- Fridge space: Cost 2.
Transcriber's note: each Upgrade card's body text is printed as small image-only text in the rulebook's setup illustration, and at the source's resolution the wording beyond the card title and cost could not be read reliably. The titles and costs above are as printed; the full card wording is not transcribed here.
Transcriber's note on step 11: the source prints "white/green/black cubes". The only dome colours listed for the scoops are white, brown, pink, yellow and green; "black" is transcribed as printed and has not been corrected.
Transcriber's note on components: the component list prints "1 Upgrade" within the 42 cards, while setup says to take "all 5 Upgrades". Both are transcribed as printed.
4. New Actions
Maitre D'
You welcome the new customers and you suggest ice-creams for desserts.
The new board adds another space for the Maitre d' action and a new option on what to do when performing it:
- Add Ice-Cream Orders: Get 1 coin and draw 2 Ice-Cream Order tiles, placing each of them on an available Order on the board (you need to place two Ice-Cream Order tiles - if there are not enough available Orders to do so, then the action cannot be performed). For an Order to be able to get an Ice-Cream Order tile on it, it must not already include ice-cream as part of its preparation nor can it have a side-dish. If both of these conditions apply, place the tile over the card as shown in the picture below.
The Ice-Cream is now part of the Order and must be delivered with it, otherwise the Order is not considered complete. See the Freezer action for more details on how an Order with Ice-Cream can be prepared.
Please note that you may use any of the two Maitre d' spaces (the one on the Main Board and the one on the New Board) to perform any of the 3 available options (Bring New Orders, Replace Orders or Add Ice-Cream Orders).
Freezer
You open the freezer and choose the ice-cream flavors you will be getting.
When performing this action you get ice-cream scoops out of the Freezer and place them on the dishes you are preparing. There are two different ways in which ice-cream scoops are used:
- Dessert Orders: Some Dessert Orders include ice-cream scoops in their requirements - these represent desserts in which ice-cream is a part of them. In these cases, you must first prepare everything else on the Order (including Cooking and Refrigerating) and then place the listed ice-cream scoops on the same plate as the dessert.
- Ice-Cream Orders: The Ice-Cream Order tiles (placed on Orders via the Maitre d' action) represent separate requests for ice-cream by the customers - they are not part of the main dish they ordered. When an Order has an Ice-Cream Order tile on it, the ice-cream scoops need to be placed on a separate ice-cream plate. If no ice-cream plates are available, you may use a size-I plate instead.
Note that ice-cream plates, after placed on your Player Mat's first row as normal, are never cooked further nor do they get refrigerated.
When checking Orders during the Cleanup Phase, if the ice-cream (and the rest of the Order) are successfully completed, you get the Order's rewards as normal. If the ice-cream was from an Ice-Cream Order tile, in addition to the rewards listed on the Order card, you also get the rewards listed on the tile.
If an Order containing ice-cream is not found to be complete during the Cleanup Phase, the ice-cream melts; you will have to discard the ice-cream scoops and the plate they were on, and prepare it again next round. This means that if it was a Dessert Order, the whole dish will need to be prepared again while if it was from an Ice-Cream Order tile, you just discard the ice-cream plate. What happens to the main dish of the Order will depend on why it wasn't completed (see Cleanup Phase in the main game's rules).
At the end of the game, count the number of Ice-Cream Order tiles from successfully completed Orders. To win the game, you must have at least as many as the corresponding number in the Ice-Cream Objective card. Dessert Orders that included ice-cream in their requirements, do not count for the Ice-Cream Objective.
IMPORTANT NOTE: In order to get the ice-cream scoops from the Freezer you need to lift its lid first. After you are done, you will have to place the lid back on top of the Freezer. If at any point during the game the Freezer is left without its lid on (with no player performing the Freezer action at that moment) all the ice-cream it contains melts. Discard all the ice-cream scoops inside of it and put the lid back on top of the Freezer.
Fridge
You place your dessert in the fridge to make sure it is properly refrigerated before served.
Many of the Dessert Orders require the dish to be refrigerated. This is indicated by the symbol with the refrigeration time (the snowflake symbol with a number on the Order card). You do this by performing the Fridge action.
When performing this action, choose one of the plates on your Player Mat that needs to be refrigerated and move it one column to the left, on the Player Mat extension. You need to use the Fridge action as many times as it is indicated on the Order card (moving the plate on the Player Mat extension one step to the left each time) to fully prepare it.
When a plate is moved to the Player Mat extension, it remains on the same row it was on and may not be cooked any more. This means that you cannot perform the Oven action (and move the plate downwards to another row) or add any Spices to it. In other words, you should refrigerate a plate only after you've made sure that all the Ingredients and Spices have been added and it has been cooked the required number of times.
The only addition you may perform on a plate that is in your Player Mat extension is to add ice-cream scoops on it (after of course you have refrigerated the appropriate number of times).
If during the Cleanup Phase you realize that you refrigerated a plate without having cooked it enough times or without having added any required Spices to it, then you've made a mistake and you will have to discard the plate and prepare it again.
Shopping
Having new recipes means new ingredients will need to be bought on time.
When playing with Piece of Cake there are additional items that you can buy when performing the Shopping action. On top of the choices you have in the main game you may now choose one of the following:
- Get 5 tokens of either Crème or Fruit and distribute them among the active Storage areas.
- Get 3 common Spices in any combination, including brown cubes, and put them in the cloth bag.
- Get 3 ice-cream scoops in any combination and put them inside the Freezer.
To easily remember the new options, the board in Piece of Cake includes another Shopping action slot which indicates them.
Please note that both Shopping spaces are exactly the same and can be used for anything you want to buy, regardless of what is written on each one.
5. Specialist
The right man for the right job!
The Specialist is a "special" worker that you can use in your games. It lasts twice as long as the other Hourglasses in the game but can perform vastly improved versions of the actions.
When playing with the Specialist, during the Setup, shuffle the Specialist Ability cards and reveal 3 of them at random. These 3 cards indicate the actions that the Specialist can perform improved versions of. As a reminder, place a Specialist token on each corresponding action on the board.
During the Action Phase, when the Specialist worker is used to perform an action with a Specialist token next to it, you may perform an improved version of the action, as indicated on the corresponding Specialist Ability card. If you do, remove the Specialist token from the board and place it next to the Specialist Ability card - each ability may only be performed once per round.
The Specialist worker can also be used as a regular worker and perform any action on the board, as normal.
During the Cleanup Phase, when paying wages for your workers, count the Specialist tokens you removed. The Specialist is paid 1 coin for each Specialist Ability that was used (with a minimum of 1 coin). If you are unable to pay wages for all of your workers and need to leave one or more Hourglasses aside, you may not choose the Specialist Hourglass for that.
At the end of the round, return all Specialist tokens back on the board, on their previous spaces; the abilities will once again be available during the next round.
If you wish to introduce the game to new players and prefer to leave the desserts and the ice-creams out of it, you can still include the Specialist - in fact, it will make the game easier for them. To do so, just remove the Specialist Ability cards that refer to actions on the new board and play with the rest.
6. F.A.Q.
If there is an Ice-Cream Order tile on top of an Order and I use the Maitre D' action to replace that Order, what happens?
Both the Order and the Ice-Cream Order tile are discarded and you draw a new Order without placing an Ice-Cream Order tile on top of it. If you want the new Order to have an Ice-Cream, you will have to use the Maitre d' action again.
When the Specialist is used in a game, does it replace the Helper?
No. Both the Helper and the Specialist are used as normal.
Section 7 of the source (Credits) is omitted, as are the publisher's contact and copyright lines.