Eye4Games Presents

Once and Future Cuisine

A lab game for 2–4 players that runs 30 min

It’s the Time Tyrant’s wedding and they’ve called on you

to whip up the feast! The Tyrant knows a chef is only Saturday, Oct 17, 1570 BCE

NEW KINGDOM
as good as their ingredients and has loaned you a time
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machine to let you leap through the ages and collect 2 2 2 2

delicacies that will truly wow the guests. 1 2 3

The bad news? You’re not the ONLY culinary master to

catch the Time Tyrant’s endless gaze. You’ll be competing FIRST COURSE SECOND COURSE THIRD COURSE

against other elite chefs to snatch up prime ingredients

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and design the best menu. GINKO TEA NETTLE SOUP MULLIGAN STEW

Oh… there’s also the risk of paradoxes. Gathering

groceries from throughout the timeline can wreak havoc
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on continuity. When you start messing up history or the

future too noticeably, the Time Tyrant will summon you Example: In the above setup, the New Kingdom era
home to evaluate your meals. board is filled with cuisine entirely from alternate
eras. This time period is now a paradox, and if two
COMPONENTS other eras join it, the game immediately ends.
• 8 pawns (2 per player); (pennies work well for this)
• 5 era boards, with 2-3 cuisine spaces on each SETUP
• Five 8-card Cuisine decks. Each cuisine deck is associated 1. Each player chooses a color and takes the corresponding
with a particular era and each deck contains 2 cards of 2 pawns.
each dish type: · In 2-player games, each player takes 2 pawns of another
· Appetizers color as well
· Drinks 2. Fill each era board’s cuisine spaces with cards from that
· Entrees era’s Cuisine deck.
· Desserts 3. Choose a first player.

GAME END THE ROUND

The game ends immediately when either of the following Each round has three phases:
happens during the “refill” step of the round’s Cleanup
1. Travel in time
phase (see “The Round”):
2. Claim ingredients
PARADOXES APLENTY 3. Cleanup

If 3 or more era boards have all their cuisine spots filled TRAVEL IN TIME
with cards from eras other than their own.
Starting with the first player and proceeding clockwise,
CONTINUITY ERROR each player on their turn places a pawn on an era board.

If it is not possible to fill all the cuisine spots on 1 or more Players adding pawns to era boards on which pawns already
era boards. have been played put theirs in lines behind the existing
pawns, to track the order of placement. No more pawns may ERA SET
be placed on an era board if the number of pawns on that
You also get points by collecting different dish types from
board equals the number of Cuisine cards on it.
the same era.
Repeat this until all players are out of pawns.
Example: You could pair “Hand-Scooped Creek Water”
CLAIM INGREDIENTS with other dishes from the Middle Paleolithic Era
Starting with the Cretaceous Period era board and and score them as an era set. If you have other drink
proceeding through the era boards one-by-one in cards, you could also count “Hand-Scooped Creek
chronological order, do the following: Water” among them when scoring for a Dish set.

1. The player who’s pawn is first in line on a board (i.e.,

who first placed their pawn on it) takes one Cuisine card You can score the same card as part of both a Dish set and
from that board an Era set.

2. Followed by the player’s pawn next in line
3. And so on, etc.
CLEANUP
1. Players take back their pawns.
2. Any unclaimed Cuisine cards on a board are placed into a
common discard pile. Do not separate the discarded cards
by era.
3. Refill each era board’s cuisine spots with cards from their
corresponding decks.
· If a cuisine deck runs out of cards, shuffle the common
discard pile and draw from this new deck to replenish.
· If there are still not enough cards to fill all the empty
cuisine spots, then the game ends immediately due to a
continuity error disrupting the timeline.
· If three or more eras’ cuisine sports are all filled with
cards from eras that are not their own, the game ends
immediately due to too many paradoxes having been
created.
Each card in a player’s collection can only be scored for
each of the two types of sets once. Ex. If a player scores
the drink “Hand-Scooped Creek Water,” appetizer “Nettle
Soup” and entree “Mixed Offal Terrine” as a 3-card Middle
Paleolithic era set, they cannot then replace “Nettle Soup”
with that era’s other appetizer (“Roasted Grub”) and score
the 3 cards again as separate era set).
To make a second Middle Palelolithic era set with the new
appetizer, the player would have to combine and score
it with other unused cards from that era. For example,
combining “Roasted Grub” with that era’s other drink,
“Wine and grapes in an animal skin pouch,” for 2-card era set.
Dish sets (same dish type, different era)
# cards 2 3 4 5
points 4 9 16 25
Era sets (same era, different dishes)
# cards 2 3 4
points 4 9 17

4. Whoever is sitting to the left of the first player becomes Each card you have that is not part of a set earns you
the first player for the next round. 1 point.

SCORING CREDITS
You score by collecting sets of Cuisine cards that either
ORIGINAL CONCEPT
share a common dish type or common era. The more
cards that are in your sets at the end of the game, the Chris Baum, Don Mitchell,
more points you earn from them. Robert Karl, Jr.

DISH SET ART & DESIGN

You get points for collecting Cuisine card that are of the Chris Baum
same dish type (Appetizer, Drink, Entree, or Dessert) but
different eras. RULES, EDITING
Jule Pattison-Gordon

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chef pawns (penny-sized) extra chef pawns (just in case)
66M-YEAR-OLD IOAH GUYOT
VOLCANIC SPRING MAGNOLIA PETAL
GINKO TEA WATER POTAGE

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CYCAD SEEDPOD BRINED

HESPERORNIS STEAMED RUDISTS
SALAD LEG

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OVERDENSE ROASTED HAND-SCOOPED

FIG DRIZZLED PINE NUTS CREEK WATER
IN HONEY

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 WINE AND
GRAPES IN AN NETTLE SOUP ROASTED GRUBS
ANIMAL SKIN
POUCH

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WILD GAME MIXED OFFAL HARD-WON

SKEWERS TERRINE HONEYCOMB

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COLLECTED TENENET FESTIVAL CENTURY

LOCAL BERRIES STYLE BEER AGED CHASSUT
& NUTS RED WINE

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EMMER WHEAT LENTIL WHOLE ROASTED
BREAD WITH AND MUSHROOM OXEN
CORIANDER STEW

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GRILLED AND TOASTED TIGER NUT AND

SALTED CAROB PODS DATE SWEET BITES
NILE PERCH

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MICRO-BREW LOCAL STRAIN AVACADO

SELTZER KOMBUCHA SPREAD ON WHOLE
GRAIN TOAST

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 BRUSSELS FISH THAT MAY ANCIENT GRAIN
SPROUTS WITH OR MAY NOT BE INFUSED SALAD
BACON SALMON

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HAND-ROLLED ICE MELTING FORMERLY

CREAM MOCHI CHOCOLATE GLACIAL SPRING
TRUFFLES WATER

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DESALINATED UNTOUCHED OFF-COLOR

OCEAN WATER SHRIMP PLATTER CHOPPED
VEGETABLES

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 SCROUNGED SCRAP-ROASTED
GRAIN PANCAKE MULLIGAN STEW SUGAR CANE
STACK

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CAREFULLY
SELECTED FRUIT PARADOX PARADOX
BOWL

post-human dessert

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