Share a pot to create your own soup using refreshing trick-taking mechanics. 

2-5 Players  |  30 Min  |  Age: 8+

Key Features: Hand Management Set Collection Trick-taking

Description:

This Reiner Knizia concoction is a sort of a trick-taking game but instead of everybody playing one card and seeing which one wins the trick everybody takes turns adding cards until the total adds up to 10 or more and the player who added that card takes the whole pile.

This can be a good thing or a bad thing depending on the player's goal for that particular round! There are five rounds in the game and exactly five different goals to be fulfilled: to take as many mushroom cards as you can or as many pea soup cards or as many onion cards or as many chili pepper cards or to take no cards at all. (The pepper cards incidentally count minus 1 unless your goal for the round is to collect them.) Goals are revealed simultaneously so you may or may not be in competition with another player for the same cards during the round. And you can't choose a goal you've already chosen so things can get pretty tough especially on the last hand where no matter what cards you're dealt you *have* to go for whichever of the five goals you haven't done already.

Since the game is always exactly five rounds it lasts a good dependable half an hour every time.