Manual — Picky Eaters

Inside Picky Eaters
Ingredient cards x 85

LETTUCE
MEAT
EGGPLANT

Recipe cards x 35

GRILLED CHEESE
bread
+
cheese

BOLOGNESE
noodles
+
meat
+
tomato

FISH & CHIPS
fish
potato

Americans eat about 2.2 billion grilled
cheese sandwiches a year.

You might think bolognese is from Bologna, but it's
actually from the northern town of Imola.

Most people think that Fish & Chips
originated in England. However, its history
is traced back to 15th Century Portugal.

Item cards x 19

EXTRA
SEASONING

SPRINKLE
OF HERBS

FANCY
SILVERWARE

Put on an opponent's Recipe to
downgrade it one notch for all
Guests that have it listed.
♡-6-9-X

Put on one of your Recipes to
add +2 points each time it is
a Guest's favorite. ♡

-1 point for each of your Recipes.
This card permanently takes up
a Recipe slot.

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Guest cards x16

BILLIE
school teacher

♡ mousaka
♡ pizza
♡ bolognese
♡ sushi
♡ pad thai
♡ falafel
X peanut butter
sandwich
X maafe

ALEX
health nut

♡ sushi
♡ peanut butter
sandwich
♡ baba ganoush
♡ veggie burger
♡ kebab
♡ burger
♡ pizza
X pierogies

RAMONA
food critic

♡ maafe
♡ mousaka
♡ baingan bharta
♡ sushi
♡ burrito
♡ dal
♡ pupusas
X peanut butter
sandwich

Player aid cards x6
First player card x1
score pad x1

Guest
deck

Food
deck

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1. Shuffle the Food Deck.
2. Shuffle the Guest Deck.
3. Give the first player card to the player who most recently went grocery shopping.
4. You are now ready to start the first round!
The goal of Picky Eaters: Make the best feast for 5 picky dinner guests!
The game has 5 rounds.
Each round has 5 steps:
1. Reveal 1 new Guest.
2. The Market is in the center of the table and where players get Food cards. Fill the Market with Food cards, face up (2 cards x the number of players). If there are cards still in the Market at the end of a round, discard them.
3. Deal 5 Food cards to each player. These cards are kept secret. All players discard down to a maximum of 10 cards.
4. Starting with the first player, each player takes 1 action until all players have passed.
5. Pass the first player card to the next player clockwise.

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Players can choose from 5 actions:
Get Food from the Market
Take 1 card from the Market.
Prepare a Recipe
To prepare a Recipe:
1. Have both the Recipe card and its listed ingredients in your hand. If you don’t have all of these, you can’t prepare a Recipe!
2. Discard the Ingredient cards and place the Recipe card in front of you.
3. This Recipe remains in play and will now take up one of your 5 Recipe slots.
4. When preparing a Recipe, you may discard 3 cards in place of any 1 Ingredient. You may only do this once per Recipe.
Play an Item
Play an Item card from your hand.
Discard 2 to draw 1
Discard 2 cards from your hand to draw 1 face-down card from the Food Deck.
Pass
Announce you are done taking actions.
Once you pass, you may no longer take actions for that round.

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Go through each player’s Recipe slots
and calculate their score:
1. Each Recipe is worth 2 points.
2. Modify the Recipe’s point value
each time it is listed on
a Guest card:
Favorite: +4 points
Like: +2 points
Dislike: -1 points
Restriction: -3 points
3. Add the scores of all your
Recipe slots together.
The player with the most points
wins. In the case of a tie,
whoever started the game
as a later player wins.
The game ends once all players have passed in the fifth
round.

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You may replace a Recipe when (and only when) you prepare a new Recipe. When you replace a Recipe, you discard the Recipe you are replacing as well as any Items on it. You may replace a Recipe even if you have only 1 Recipe in play. You may not replace a Recipe that has Hot Plate on it. There is no limit to how many Items can be on a Recipe. However, no Recipe can have more than 1 of the same Item on it. Players may never end their turn with more than 10 cards in hand. If you take a card from the Market with 10 cards in hand, you must immediately discard a card. The discard pile remains face down. If the Food Deck is ever empty, shuffle the discard pile to form a new Food Deck. You may never use more than 5 Recipe slots. When you take a card from the Market, you do not replace it. The Market only gets refilled at the beginning of each round. For 2-player and 3-player games, make the following changes for a less picky experience: 1. Fill the Market with 6 cards (instead of 4 cards for 2-player games). 2. Deal 6 cards to each player at the beginning of each round (instead of 5 cards).

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a Word from Le Fou

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Art by Alex Hoskins

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