Nutty Noodles Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Components
• Basic Mode
  • Setup
  • How to Play
    • Example
  • Special Cases
  • End of the Game
• Advanced Mode
  • Setup
  • How to Play
  • End of the Game
• Variants
  • Panic in the Kitchen
  • Scrambled
  • Order Please

Components

• 5x 1 ingredient Noodles Cards
• 10x 2 ingredients Noodles Cards
• 10x 3 ingredients Noodles Cards
  • 25 Noodles Cards in total
• 1 Miso Soup Card
• 3 Ingredients Dice
• 22x 1 allergy Monster Cards
• 20x 2 allergies Monster Cards
  • 42 Monster Cards in total
• 4 Table Cards (From 1-4)
• 16 Table Tokens (4 of each colour)
• 1 Rulebook

Basic Mode

Setup

1. Separate the 15 Noodles Cards of 1 and 2 ingredients and put them together with the Miso Soup Card, place them randomly to form a 4x4 grid with the green background side, face up.
2. Place the Table Cards numbered 1 to 3 in order, above the Noodles.
3. Separate the 22 Monster cards with 1 allergy (this includes the 2 Monsters allergic to miso soup) and shuffle them to form a face down Draw Deck. Next, draw 3 Monster Cards and place them one at a time at each Table.
4. Each player takes the Table Tokens numbered 1 to 3, the colour of their choice.
5. Finally, take 2 Ingredients Dice and place them next to the Noodles.

Leave the rest of the components inside the box, these are used for the Advanced Mode.

How to Play

Nutty Noodles is played over a series of rounds. In each round, the player who won the previous Monster Card will roll the dice to determine the ingredients of the bowl that must come out of the kitchen. Then all players at the same time will try to serve that bowl to one of the Monsters sitting at the Tables, always taking into account their allergies. We don't want them to transform into something even uglier!

The player who has eaten noodles most recently rolls the 2 Ingredients Dice and starts the game.

Immediately after throwing the dice, all the players at the same time look for the bowl (Noodles card) that contains the exact ingredients shown on the Dice (a repeated ingredient counts as one) and as quickly as possible, they try to place their Table Token which corresponds to one of the Monsters that is not allergic to those ingredients on top of the correct bowl. Each Monster Card shows its allergies in the top right corner. If neither dice show any ingredients, players should then look for the Miso Soup.

The first player to place their Table Token correctly, wins the Monster Card they have served, that is, the Monster sitting at the Table corresponding to the Token they played, thereby ending the round. The Card is then placed in the player's game area as their reward.

Note: Each player can only place one Table Token and there is only one correct bowl. If the first player who places their Table Token does so wrongly, the other players continue playing until someone places their card correctly.

Example

James throws the 2 Ingredients Dice, with the following result: chilli and fish [A]. Quickly, all players look for the bowl which contains those 2 ingredients. The first one to find it is María and she puts on her Table "2" Token on that bowl [B]. On that Table there is a Monster who is allergic to Miso Soup, but not chilli or fish (the Monsters at Tables "1" and "3" are allergic to those ingredients). As her reward, Maria wins the Monster Card and places it in her game area [C].

Once the round is over, all players collect their Table Tokens and draw a new Monster Card to fill the empty Table space. The player who won the previous Monster Card rolls the 2 Ingredients Dice to start a new round.

Special Cases

• If all the Monsters sitting at the Tables are allergic to the ingredients shown on the Dice, the player who first places one of their Table Tokens, whichever, face down on the corresponding bowl takes the top Monster Card from the Draw Deck as a reward. A lazy monster did not want to come to the restaurant and has ordered a takeaway from home.
• If several players correctly place their Table Token on the bowl, but it is not possible to determine who placed it first, they all win a Monster card: one of them will take the Monster from the corresponding Table and the others take one from the Draw Deck. If it was a takeaway delivery, everyone takes a card from the Draw Deck. Then, they decide together who rolls the Ingredients Dice to start a new round.
• If no player places their Table Token correctly, the round is repeated by rolling the Dice again.

End of the Game

The player who first gets the following number of Monster Cards wins the game:

• In 2 player games, 7 Monster Cards.
• In 3 player games, 6 Monster Cards.
• In 4 player games, 5 Monster Cards.

In the case of a tie, the tied players share the victory.

Advanced Mode

Setup

1. Separate the 20 Noodles Cards of 2 and 3 ingredients and place them randomly to form a 4x5 grid with the green background side, face up.
2. Place the 4 Table Cards in order above the Noodles.
3. Remove the 2 Cards of the Monsters who are allergic to miso soup and shuffle the remaining 40 Monster Cards to form a face down Draw Deck. Next, draw 4 Monster cards and place them one at a time at each Table.
4. Each player takes their 4 Table Tokens, the colour of their choice.
5. Finally, take the 3 Ingredients Dice and place them next to the Noodles.

Leave the rest of the components inside the box, they are not used in Advanced Mode.

How to Play

The rules text below is printed on the sheet under the heading "How to Play" in the Advanced Mode section, and it refers to "the Basic Mode" as the baseline it modifies.

The rounds are played in the same way as the Basic Mode, with the following exception: 3 Ingredients Dice are always thrown instead of 2. If together the dice show less than 2 different ingredients, all the dice must be thrown again until there are at least 2 different ingredients. The Monsters, now that they know the restaurant, no longer settle for just anything.

End of the Game

The game ends in the same way as in the Basic Mode.

Variants

The following variants add a touch of difficulty and fun to the game, and can be applied to any of the game modes either by themselves or by using a combination of them.

Panic in the Kitchen

Place the Noodles Cards in a messy way in the centre of the table instead of forming a grid making sure that the ingredients are clearly visible.

Scrambled

Place the Noodles Cards on the orange side: the scrambled ingredients amongst the noodles are now more difficult to distinguish.

Order Please

It is mandatory to respect the order of the Tables (always from left to right), so that players must place the Table Token of the first Monster that can eat it on the bowl. That is, if the Monster at Table "1" can eat it, the Table "1" Token must be placed on the corresponding bowl; if the first Monster that can eat it is the one sitting at Table "2", the Table "2" Token must be placed on the correct bowl, and so on.