Crazy real-time cooking

🍳Frying Master is a real-time dexterity game of… well, frying. 😄 It is a pretty frantic and crazy experience for 2-4 players, with crazy good art. At least I love all the cheeky smiling ingredients. 🙂 Let’s take a quick look at the gameplay!

To set up the game you just each take a spatula card and dump the rest of the cards on the the table. Square cards are the rice and pasta 🍚, hex cards are meat 🍖, triangle cards are vegetables 🥦 and circle tokens are spices 🧄. These are the ingredients you will need to complete recipes. 

There are also plates 🍽️ that you set up as two stacks. These show the recipes. As you play you hold a spatula card in one hand and a plate card in another, always drawing a new plate when you complete another. 

You might have guessed the gameplay itself already. 😅 Players will simultaneously start to search the pile of cards for ingredients they need, flipping them with their spatula. Only faceup ingredients are valid, and you need to exactly match the number of things needed. Plates also show a suboptimal ingredient that gives minus points. If you finish an order you have to say “Order’s Up!” - and you play until a set amount of orders is completed.

There is an additional cool idea! The backside of plates also show special conditions: Each round you will draw one that will modify the rules. This could be something normal like getting bonus points if you have more meat cards in the end; but there are more wacky rules like having to use your non-dominant hand, or having two spatula cards. They give a fun variation to games. 

So if you were looking for the next funny party game you might not need to look further. Frying Master might be exactly what you need to turn some frowns upside down. 😄