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Just Desserts

Just Desserts

Edge Entertainment · 2015
2–525 min8+ yrs1.3/5 complexity5.7 BGG#11.712 BGG2,5 KFamily
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How do you play Just Desserts?

The guests are here, and they're hungry, so try to be the best waiter at this café by making sure that all the guests get their Just Desserts!

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The guests are here, and they're hungry, so try to be the best waiter at this café by making sure that all the guests get their Just Desserts!

In this card game, each player starts with a hand of three dessert cards while three guest cards are placed in the center of the table; each dessert card shows 1-3 tastes that it satisfies, such as chocolate, fruit, or pastry, while the guest cards show what they crave as well as what they refuse to eat. On a turn, you draw a dessert card, add a guest card to the table from the deck, then take one of three actions:

Serve (and claim) one or two guests by discarding one or more dessert cards to give them what they want (while avoiding what they don't want); if you give a guest their favorite item, you get tipped with an extra dessert card.
Draw one more dessert card.
Dump as many dessert cards as you want, then drawing that many cards from the deck.

At the end of your turn, discard guests from the table so that only one guest of each "suit" is still waiting to be served — but the guest heading out the door (on top of the discard pile) can still be claimed by any waiter. If at any time you've served three guests of the same suit or five guests of different suits, then you win!

Just Desserts includes game variants that allow you to steal guests from another waiter by sending more sweets their way, to force other waiters to each give up one guest, and to hold a surprise party to claim a guest out of turn.

game anatomy
Complexity1.3 / 5
BGG rating5.7 / 10
Vibe
Family
Language dependence
Some text — easily memorized
🌐 plays without English
Play time
25 min
Players
2–5
Recommended age
8+ yrs
BGG rank
#11.712
from Trișache · verified

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Q3How do you play Just Desserts?
Just Desserts is a card game game, for 2–5 players, taking ~25 minutes, featuring contracts. Check the Rules tab for setup, gameplay, and scoring, or ask Trișache anything about Just Desserts — our AI assistant built by howtoplay.ro and trained specifically on board game rulebooks.
Q4How many players does Just Desserts support?
Just Desserts is played by 2–5 players.
Q5How long does a game of Just Desserts take?
A game of Just Desserts takes about 25 minutes. (The first game doesn't count. It never counts.)
Q6What age is Just Desserts for?
Just Desserts is recommended from age 8.
Q7How complex is Just Desserts?
Just Desserts has a BoardGameGeek complexity of 1.3 out of 5.
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