Burning Cookies: survive the wildest amateur baking contest
Published by Piatnik, Burning Cookies throws you straight into the heat of an international baking competition where anything goes. In this fast and mischievous party card game, your goal is to bake the finest cookies without ever letting the oven overheat. Behind its colorful and sweet presentation lies a cutthroat game of bluffing and sabotage where you must deceive your rivals while deflecting their dirty tricks. The game features:
- Vibrant cartoon artwork that immediately sets a lively mood.
- A straightforward bluffing mechanic that creates laughter and friendly accusations around the table.
- A pocket-sized format, making it effortless to take to parties or family gatherings.
Burning Cookies: play your cookies, bluff your way out, and set traps
Gameplay revolves around managing the shared baking tray positioned at the center of the table:
- Stacking rules: On your turn, you must place a cookie card of a different color and higher value than the previous one.
- Pushing your luck: If you lack a legal card, play one face-down while claiming it meets the conditions, risking serving a burnt cookie.
- Calling the bluff: Any rival can challenge your claim. If caught lying, the bluffer takes all burnt cookies as penalties; if truthful, the challenger suffers the consequence instead.
- Special actions: Use event cards to tamper with your opponent's oven temperature or force them to draw additional cards.
Burning Cookies: victory conditions and end of the game
Tension builds as the baking trays fill up and burnt cookie penalties stack across the table:
- Game end trigger: As soon as an unlucky or overly reckless baker collects eight burnt cookies, the contest ends immediately.
- Crowning the master chef: The player with the fewest burnt cookies across the entire game is declared the winner. Burning Cookies is a punchy, approachable party game, ideal for fans of fast-paced card games where strategic bluffing and calculated mischief lead to victory.
