Pink Soup Game Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Overview
  • Scoring Summary
• Components
• Setup
  • Recipe cards
  • Ingredient cards
  • Who Starts?
• Late-Game Example (3 Players)
• Player's Turn
  • Option A: Draw 2 Face-Down Ingredient Cards
    • First card
    • Second card
  • Option B: Take One Card from the Shared Kitchen
• Mouse Powers
• End of the Game
  • Ingredient deck runs out
  • A player declares the last round
• Winning
• Scoring
• Example of Scoring

Overview

The Head Chef can be only one! To earn that title, you must collect the most points.

Scoring Summary

• Recipe completion: +15. At least 5 different suitable ingredients in Pot + Shared Kitchen.
• Suitable Ingredients: All card values. Ingredients with your recipe symbol in Pot + Shared Kitchen.
• Desserts: +6 each. Pot only.
• Chili: -3 each / exactly 3 = +15. Pot only.
• Mice: -1 each. Pot only.

Components

• 12 Recipe Cards
• 70 Ingredient Cards
• 2 Rules Reference Cards
• 1 Head Chef Winner's Crown

Setup

Recipe cards

• Each player secretly draws 1 recipe card.
• You may look at your recipe at any time, but keep it secret until the end of the game.
• Return the remaining recipe cards to the box.

Ingredient cards

• Shuffle all ingredient cards.
• Place them face-down in a single draw pile in the center of the table.

Who Starts?

The player who most recently ate cold pink soup (šaltibarščiai) goes first. If no one has, then the player wearing clothes closest to pink starts.

Late-Game Example (3 Players)

The printed manual shows a late-game layout for three players. Its labelled areas are:

• Shared Kitchen
• Ingredient draw pile
• Personal Pot
• Recipe card
• Discard pile

Player's Turn

On your turn, you must choose one of two actions:

Option A: Draw 2 face-down ingredient cards.

Option B: Take one card from the Shared Kitchen (only if there are 5 face-up cards).

Option A: Draw 2 Face-Down Ingredient Cards

First card

• Only you may look at them. Choose one card and place it face-up in the Shared Kitchen (in the empty space next to the ingredient draw pile).
  • Tip: Suitable ingredients in the Shared Kitchen also score at the end of the game, so choose wisely.
• If there are already 5 cards face-up, place the new card on top of any pile face-up.
  • Tip: Cover ingredients you don't need, or those that could be valuable to your opponents.

Second card

You must choose one of the following:

• Place it face-down into your Pot.
  • Once placed, you cannot look at it again. You must remember what you put in your Pot, or which cards other chefs gave you. Only with a Mouse special action can you look at all your cards again.
  • Your Pot can hold a maximum of 5 cards.
  • If your Pot is full:
    1. Choose one card from your Pot without checking (rely on memory).
    2. Reveal it, then place it into the Shared Kitchen (on top if there are 5 cards already).
    3. Then place your chosen card from the Shared Kitchen in the freed-up spot in your Pot.
  • Tip: This way, you can get rid of unwanted cards from your Pot.
• Place it face-down into another player's Pot.
  • If their Pot is full (5 cards), choose one of their cards without checking, reveal it, and remove it from the game.
  • Tip: If you know something about another chef's cards, try to discard a card that would be valuable for them.
• If it's a Mouse card, you may activate one of its powers.
  • After activation, remove the Mouse card from the game.
  • Tip: If you keep a Mouse card as your second card, you don't have to activate it. You can also place it into another chef's pot.

Option B: Take One Card from the Shared Kitchen

• Choose a top card from any Shared Kitchen pile and place it face-down into your Pot.
  • You cannot place it into another player's Pot.
  • If you choose a Mouse card, you may immediately activate one of its powers and then remove it from the game. You do not need to keep it.
• If your Pot is full:
  1. Choose one card from your Pot without checking (rely on memory).
  2. Reveal it, then place it into the Shared Kitchen (on top if there are 5 cards already).
  3. Then place your chosen card from the Shared Kitchen in the freed-up spot in your Pot.
  • Tip: This way, you can get rid of unwanted cards from your Pot.

Mouse Powers

When you activate a Mouse, choose only one power to activate. After activation, remove the Mouse card from the game.

1. Take any card from a Shared Kitchen pile, not just the top one.
2. Shuffle all the cards in your Pot or another player's Pot.
3. Swap one card from your Pot with one from another player's Pot, or swap between two other players (you cannot look before or after).
4. Look at all the cards in your Pot or another player's Pot (do not change their order).

Source note on this section: the printed manual reads "Take any card card from a Shared Kitchen pile"; the doubled word is corrected here to "Take any card".

End of the Game

The game can end in two ways:

Ingredient deck runs out

Each player takes one final turn. In this last turn, you may:

• Take one ingredient card from the Shared Kitchen into your Pot.
• Activate a Mouse from the Shared Kitchen.
• Pass.

After your last action, place your recipe card face-down on top of your Pot to close it. Once closed, no one can change the cards in your Pot or use Mouse powers against you.

A player declares the last round

This can only happen if all players have 5 cards in their Pots. After completing your turn, you may declare the end of the game. Every other player then takes one final turn. Each player must close their Pot after their final turn.

Note: If the last active player draws 2 cards, they may place both into the Shared Kitchen, since all other Pots are already closed.

Tip: Declare the end only when you are sure you have good cards in your Pot, because the Shared Kitchen can change a lot before everyone takes their final turn.

Winning

The player with the highest score becomes the new Head Chef!

Tie-breakers:

1. The player who completed their recipe wins.
2. If still tied, the player with the most desserts wins.
3. If still tied, players share victory. Enjoy the soup together!

The winner gets the Head Chef Crown. Now try to guard it from the other chefs!

Scoring

Recipe Completion

• +15 points if you have at least 5 different ingredients with your recipe symbol between your Pot and the Shared Kitchen.
• The same ingredient cannot count twice.

Suitable Ingredients Scoring

• Each ingredient with your recipe symbol in your Pot or the Shared Kitchen scores the points shown on its card.
• Duplicates count.
• Ingredients without your recipe's symbol score nothing.
• Salt always scores 0.

Desserts

• Each dessert in your Pot is worth +6 points.
• Desserts in the Shared Kitchen give no points.

Chili Peppers

• Each chili in your Pot is worth -3 points.
• Exactly 3 chilis is worth +15 points (a spicy chili soup).
• Chilis in the Shared Kitchen do not count.

Mice

• Each mouse in your Pot is worth -1 point.
• Mice in the Shared Kitchen give no points.

Example of Scoring

The printed manual shows one finished example, with the recipe card (15 points, Cold Pink Soup) and the cards in the Shared Kitchen and the chef's Personal Pot:

• Shared Kitchen: eggs (2), milk (3), onions (1), minced meat (1), mouse (-1).
• Personal Pot: salt (0), beetroot and cabbage (4), dessert (6), mouse (-1), chili (-3).

The printed result line counts the suitable ingredients (2, 3, 1, 0 and 4), the dessert, the mouse and the chili from the Pot. The minced meat and the Shared Kitchen mouse do not appear in the total. The example's result line is:

15 + 2 + 3 + 1 + 0 + 4 + 6 - 1 - 3 = 27