Gnomish Mustard
United States
Texas
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We had two first time chefs in our midst along with two veterans. I have played this game a number of times, and each time I have arrived at last place. Maybe it's the ever changing game and I can't adapt. Maybe, just maybe, its my strategy (most likely).
I decide to try a little something new. Taking recipes of 5,2,3 in the first round. The ides was to work on the 5, but start on the 2 and 3's to get the powerful cards in case the 5 starts getting to challenging.
My wife chose the following instead:
However, my strategy didn't go as planned. I always seemed to need two or three special cards in order to make the 5. I started cranking through 2 part recipes in vain attempts to gain cards to make my 5 part recipe. Often the card I would need would already be taken. For example, I needed stack, but only had a chop card available to take. The recipe was complete if I could have stacked the last ingredient. The chop wasn't an option because someone had already stacked there previously.
I ended up never completing it, and was limited to two recipes the entire game. Another last place finish. I won't give up though! There must be some strategy that I can use to finally become the best sushi chef in the land (or at least at the table). 
Picture of the final board:
That's me on the top left with the one Wasabi cube.
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Haven't played this for a while, but aren't stack and chop effectively the same - if you need stack to put something on top of something else, can't you just chop what's there and then play the thing you need to play? Maybe I'm misremembering the rules though.
On the strategy, I think taking 5/2/3 at the start is sensible. You need to start getting the special cards quickly to stand much chance of controlling the board well enough to get the bigger recipes later on. That has worked for me - although admittedly there may be group-think in our games, and perhaps other better strategies are out there.
BUT (and it's a big but), in 4 player, even in 3, chances of making the 5 are low. Much of the time I've played 2 player and there's a good chance then of making your 5. There's so much changing so quickly with more players that it might be more sensible to aim lower - and work on the two 4s for your big scores. There's much less chance of being stuck with only two recipes all game that way.
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Gnomish Mustard
United States
Texas
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david_os wrote: Haven't played this for a while, but aren't stack and chop effectively the same - if you need stack to put something on top of something else, can't you just chop what's there and then play the thing you need to play? Maybe I'm misremembering the rules though.
No you are correct... In this case though there were two items in the same square that I needed to complete the 5 recipe. I think chop just takes the top item off so I desperately needed stack, but the other chefs were not cooperating with me. :-)
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OK - hadn't thought of that. Makes sense now.
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