Secret Sauce 2027

A saucy trick-taking game, where chefs (players) season dishes with their secret sauces to claim points, or strategically divert points to other chefs in the hopes of protecting their own! If you're one for spicy strategy and saucy mind games, this is the game for you!

Each turn, one player will select a dish, which may provide 1 or more trumps or other gameplay effects. Then players will each play out a card from their hand, following at least 1 of the lead card's flavours (suits) if possible. The winner of the trick collects the dish, which they may or may not end up scoring later. The round ends once all cards have been played out over a series of tricks. At the end of the round, the player or players with the most dishes may only keep 1 for scoring, and discards the rest. If only 1 player won zero tricks, they claim all discarded dishes as their own, adding them to their scoring. All other players keep all their collected dishes from the round. At the end of 3 rounds, the player with the most points from collected dishes wins the game!

—description from the publisher