Sneaky Supper Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Objective
• Components
• Setup
• Let's Eat! (But Shhh...)
• During Your Turn
• Noise
• Being Careful
• Pushing Your Luck (Why Not?)
• Busted! (Should Have Been More Careful)
• Retreat! (Too Risky)
• The Secret Stash Rule (Sshh!)
• Ending Your Turn
• Overwhelming Success (Wow)
• Cravings (I'll Tell Ya What I Want)
• End of Game (Are Ya Winning?)
• Optional: The Mish-Mash Rule (Leave No Snack Behind)
• Quickstart
  • Setup
  • Play

Objective

Eat snacks, complete recipes, and feed your cravings! The first to score 20 points ends the game, but the player with the most points wins!

Components

• Search cards x80
• Utensil cards x8
• Careful tokens x16
• Recipe cards x18
• Craving cards x9
• Point tokens x30
• Floorplan mat x1

Setup

1. Sort the Recipes and place them face up such that all 9 types are shown.
2. Shuffle the Search cards and Utensil cards separately and place them in the centre. (Note: there are Utensils within the Search cards as well, do not separate those.)
3. Place the Floorplan mat next to it.
4. Shuffle the Craving cards and deal 1 to each player together with 1 Careful token.
5. Place all Point tokens aside in a pile with the remaining Careful tokens and Craving cards.

The player who most recently tripped over something starts first!

Let's Eat! (But Shhh...)

Sneaky Supper is played over several turns. Once a player achieves 20 points (denoted by stars), all other players get 1 final turn before the game ends! After that, the player who has the most points wins!

During Your Turn

Each turn, you are trying to make your way around the house to the kitchen and back to your room for maximum snack efficiency. To start your turn, you MUST draw the top Search card of the deck.

There are generally 2 types of cards you might draw: Food or Accidents.

Place drawn cards face up on the Floorplan mat to track your progress around the house.

After drawing your first card, you may have made some Noise and might choose to stop. Let's talk about Noise.

Noise

Each card makes a certain amount of Noise, denoted by the loudspeaker icon.

If you make a total of 4 or more Noise, you are Busted! Everyone else in the house wakes up and they are MAD at you. Try to avoid that.

• This card makes 1 Noise.
• This card makes 3 Noise!
• This card makes 0 Noise!

(The source shows these as three loudspeaker tiles: yellow for 1 Noise, red with three sound waves for 3 Noise, and green for 0 Noise.)

Being Careful

At any point during your turn, you may use a Careful token you have to snuff out the Noise made by a card you drew. This reduces the Noise made by that card to 0! You can decide to use it even after making 4 or more Noise!

Aha! I was actually so careful that I didn't make noise even though I tripped!

Pushing Your Luck (Why Not?)

After each card you draw, you may decide to draw another card, or to stop and Retreat with your spoils.

For your 2nd card onwards, you may choose to draw from the Utensil deck instead. But you may only draw from that deck once per turn.

The Utensil deck contains only Utensils, essential for completing Recipes. So you know what you are getting, but they vary in amount of Noise made...

If you made 4 or more Noise after drawing a card, you are Busted! If you don't have any Careful tokens, or choose not to use them, resolve the following steps.

Busted! (Should Have Been More Careful)

First, discard all Accident cards that were drawn.

Then, as a penalty for waking everyone up, starting from the player on your left, each player (including you) in turn order takes a drawn card into their hand. If there are fewer cards than there are players, any remaining players get nothing. Otherwise, discard any leftover drawn cards after everyone has taken a card. Your turn is now over.

Lesson learnt, you will be more careful next time. You also gain a Careful token. You can hold a maximum of 3 Careful tokens.

If you get Busted and at least 1 of your drawn cards have this icon, you get an additional Careful token! (still max. 3).

Retreat! (Too Risky)

If you did not get Busted and decided to stop, resolve the following steps.

1. Discard any Accident cards drawn and add all other cards drawn into your hand.
2. You may complete any number of available Recipes using cards in your hand.

Example (Doodled Up Noodles recipe card): This Recipe requires: 1 Utensil, 1 Instant Noodles, and 2 different Raw ingredients. You managed to get all of those by combining cards in your hand from a previous turn and cards you drew this turn. You discard the ingredients and claim the Recipe, keeping it in front of you for 7 points!

Keep completed Recipes face down in front of you to track their points.

3. You may consume a card from your hand, discarding it to score the points on the top right of the card. Take point tokens from the supply to track these. (We advise against physically consuming the card.)

Examples from the source: Gem Biscuits: "Consuming this scores you 2 points!" Seasoned Seaweed: "This slightly noisier Seaweed scores 3!" Sliced Bread: "This Sliced Bread is for a recipe, but you could still consume it for a point!"

When completing a Recipe as part of a Retreat, you might find yourself missing certain ingredients. Fortunately, you foresaw this situation and prepared a secret stash...

The Secret Stash Rule (Sshh!)

When completing a Recipe, you may use a Careful token you have as any ingredient of your choice (including Utensils)!

You may use multiple Careful tokens per Recipe (You were just THAT prepared!) but you must use at least 1 card.

You may also use this rule when completing your Craving (explained in page 9.)

Ending Your Turn

After getting Busted or Retreating, your turn is over. You may only keep 4 cards in your hand, discarding any over the limit.

If you managed to complete a Recipe this turn, shuffle all discarded Search cards and put them at the bottom of the deck.

Shuffle discarded Utensil cards into the Utensil deck.

Overwhelming Success (Wow)

If you manage to not get Busted after drawing your 7th card, you have achieved OVERWHELMING SUCCESS! Congratulations!

You may resolve the steps for Retreating (Page 6), and can keep more than 4 cards in your hand for this turn!

(You cannot draw an 8th card.)

Cravings (I'll Tell Ya What I Want)

Each Craving requires 2 specific Snacks, as well as a Drink of your choice to score.

At any point of time (including during other players' turns), if you have all the required items in your hand, you may immediately discard them and score your Craving card!

You may then draw a new Craving card to try for.

(The source shows an example Craving card with its two Snack icons and a Drink icon.)

End of Game (Are Ya Winning?)

Once any player has 20 or more points, the End of Game is triggered. All other players get a final turn to score as many points as possible. Don't forget to resolve getting Busted as players without a turn still have a chance to score their Cravings by taking drawn cards!

Scoring your Craving card on another player's turn might bring you to or over 20 points. If this causes you to trigger the End of Game, your next turn is skipped and all other players have one final turn.

After that, any remaining Careful tokens are converted to 1 point each, and each player tallies up their total score. The player with the most points is crowned the Ultimate Sneaky Snacker!

Optional: The Mish-Mash Rule (Leave No Snack Behind)

If you are someone that would like to have a bit more consistency, or hates discarding cards due to your hand limit, this is the (optional) rule for you!

When making a Recipe or completing Cravings, you may spend any 2 ingredients (except Utensils) as an ingredient (except Utensils) of your choice!

Think of it as making the best of what you have on hand.

The source illustrates this with an example: Eggs and Ice Cream, plus Kaya & Butter, make a Simple Sandwich. Quote from the source: "No bread for a sandwich? No problem! Just use some ice cream and eggs as your bread! Sounds gross, but what can you do? Time to feast on this abomination, made by your hand."

Quickstart

Setup

• Sort the Recipes and place them face up such that all 9 types are shown.
• Shuffle the Search cards and Utensil cards.
• Place them together with the Floorplan.
• Each player gets a Craving card and a Careful token.

Play

Draw a Search card. Then, keep going or Retreat! If you make 4 or more Noise, you are Busted!

If you Retreat...

• Discard all Accidents and keep the rest!
• Complete Recipes!
• Consume (discard) a card!

If you are Busted...

• Discard all Accidents.
• Starting from the next player, each player takes a drawn card.
• You get a Careful token.

Draw 7 without Busting:

• No hand limit.
• Resolve Retreat.

Max. Hand Limit: 4 cards

Max. Careful tokens: 3 tokens