Wok up – action game about cooking

What can't be done with the pan: frying, steaming, deep frying, stewing, boiling, boiling, smoking, roasting, steaming and stewing. Kung food? Sure, this works too!

In Wok Up by Alexandre Droit and Johan Benvenuto, we compete as culinary ninjas to compete in food kung. As one shinobi sage said, if you learn the culinary arts for your own sake only and always try to rely on others just because it's easier, you will be controlled by these three cooking recipes. With this in mind: Wake up!

This is how the board game Wok Up works

First, of course, you need a frying pan. The corner points of the pan are drawn using the five piles of recipe cards. However, only three recipes from different groups were revealed. If all of this is attached to the walls of the pan, you will get the pan apron. The 25 component markers printed on both sides are distributed fairly evenly before the match and you're ready to go!

Work on the pan

take a deep breath. Everyone takes an ingredient marker in their hand and simultaneously swirls it through the air in the pan. It is best to rotate the mark several times before it hits the pan. When you hit the pan… because a pen like that sometimes flies farther than it should. But as long as it's still touching the walls of the pan or the recipe cards, all is well. Now quickly compare whether the ingredients can meet the recipe card. If so, hit it with the palm of your hand. It should be clarified whether or not hand edging is also permitted.

So tired in the fun skillet kitchen

But recipe cards have it all. At least for people who don't have ninja reflexes. It should be based on a certain amount of one or different components. Even when labels touch recipe cards, attention is required. Maybe even multiple recipes can be fulfilled. It's all about hand-eye coordination. Once at least one recipe card is completed, the ingredient marks are roughly distributed again and recipes from another set are revealed. It continues. The first person to have five recipe cards wins and is crowned Smo Wok.

Conclusion: Real ninjas don't sweat while cooking

Wok Up – The Kung Food Game is a game you either love or you don't. Because it calls for quick action. If you prefer to think in a frying pan, you don't stand a chance. Fortunately for these people, the wake-up tour doesn't take long. Who knows, maybe you'll discover your ninja cooking skills after all.

Crazy gameplay, crazy storytelling and a crazy game board.

Anyone who has smiled three times now knows: “It's my game!” But some fun ninja qualities don't hurt.

But what is unfortunate is that the authors and illustrator Sebastian Lopez are only mentioned on one of the lower parts of the box, in small print. Something like that is inappropriate in this day and age. Printing names on the box and in the game instructions is the least you should do for your people.