Critter Kitchen is a charming strategic board game from Lucky Duck Games in which players take on the roles of animal chefs competing to cook the best dishes during Restaurant Week in the bustling town of Bistro Bay. Players gather ingredients, fulfill unique challenges, and try to impress a discerning food critic to lead their restaurant to victory.
Each player controls three different chefs — a mouse, a lizard, and a boar — each with unique speeds and carrying capacities. These chefs are sent simultaneously to various locations on the board to collect ingredients and spices. With careful planning, anticipation of opponents' moves, and a dash of cunning, players craft the perfect combinations of ingredients to complete goals and earn stars. With asymmetrical powers, hidden information, and simultaneous programming, Critter Kitchen offers a flavorful and replayable strategy experience.
This edition of the game is entirely in English, including all components and the rulebook.
🎯 How to Play
- Players simultaneously assign their three chef figures to locations on the map.
- Each chef has different movement speeds and can carry a specific number of ingredients.
- Players collect ingredients, spices, and soup tokens to complete dishes.
- Points are earned by fulfilling public and private challenges and by satisfying the visiting critic.
- After seven rounds, the player with the most stars wins.
📦 Box Contents
- 1 Waterfront board
- 8 Location boards
- 1 draw bag
- 1 round tracker
- 119 ingredient, spice & rumor tokens
- 2 Allspice (7th round) tokens
- 40 soup tokens
- 7 bisque tokens
- 72 star tokens
- 1 hold token
- 7 challenge cards
- 28 rumor cards
- 12 critic cards
- 45 location cards
- 12 sous-chef cards
- 12 sous-chef tokens
- 10 restaurateur cards
- 1 maître d’ card
- 5 player restaurant screens
- 5 kitchen boards
- 15 wooden chef figures
- 5 chef hats
- 20 plates
- 1 solo kitchen board
- 56 solo cards
- English rulebook
📌 Game Specifications
- Players: 1–5 (expandable to 7 with the “À La Carte” expansion)
- Age: 12+
- Playtime: 60 minutes
- Language: English (cards and rulebook)
- Game type: Strategic board game with simultaneous programming and asymmetric player powers
- Mechanics: Contract fulfillment, action programming, variable player powers, solo mode
- Publisher: Lucky Duck Games