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A chaotic cooking board game with traps!

Coming August 2025!

​​Gather ingredients, set traps on your opponents, and make delicious dishes to become the best chef in the lands!

2 or 4

players

30-60

minutes

Design: Richard Wu

Art: Paulo Galamgam, Eva Manral, Evelina Collins

kitchen chaos board game cards

About Kitchen Chaos

Kitchen Chaos is a chaotic, cooking board game with traps! Two teams of chefs face off to gather ingredients, manage the kitchen's limited cooking stations, and plan cunning usage of trap cards to become the best chef in the lands! 

If you're looking for an easy-to-learn, cooking-themed worker placement game to play with friends and family, check out Kitchen Chaos!

kitchen chaos baord game layout
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How to Play

Kitchen Chaos uses worker placement mechanics, where each player will control chefs and perform actions every round. During your chef's turn, you may collect ingredients, prepare delicious dishes, cook, or serve a completed dish to hungry customers for points!

Players may play in a 1-on-1 match or work with a teammate for a 2-on-2 (4-player) game. Teams will be competing to see who can deliver dishes first while navigating the kitchen's limited cooking stations and avoiding devious trap set by the other team. 

Game Rounds

A round of Kitchen Chaos is played in 3 phases:

  1. Select chef turn order

  2. Perform chef actions

  3. Round cleanup

1. Select chef turn order

Players will place their chefs on the turn order selection board, determing the turn order for this round. Late turns are rewarded with extra benefits.

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2. Perform chef actions

Starting with the chef on turn 1, each player will move their chef from the turn order selection to the kitchen station of their choice and perform that action.

kitchen chaos fry station
kitchen chaos bake station
kitchen chaos grill station

3. Round cleanup

When all chefs have performed their action, check if any team has reached the victory target, remove chefs from the board, refill recipes, and set traps for the next round! Then play a new round!

kitchen chaos farm to table trap card
kitchen chaos burger recipe card
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kitchen chaos kitchen board with chef meeples
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Trap Cards

Chaos is introduced into the kitchen with the addition of trap cards!

Station traps

kitchen chaos cake trap card

Traps a target cooking station.

To use: Set face-down on your team prep board

Trigger: An opponent moves to the trapped cooking station

kitchen chaos grill token
kitchen chaos fry token
kitchen chaos soup token
kitchen chaos bake token

Special traps

kitchen chaos salt dude trap card

Gives you special abilities which can help you or hurt your opponents.

To use: Set facedown on your team prep board

Trigger: Anytime the player wishes

Think ahead and plan your traps well, while anticipating traps set by your opponents! Trap cards can help you turn the tide of battle to become the champions of Kitchen Chaos!

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