What better Thanksgiving topic is there than food? When it’s also Munchkin! Munchkin Crazy Cooks is a fun, food-themed take on a game you know I love — if you need a refresher on the basics, I posted about that here. Otherwise, let’s get cooking!
As always, each flavor of Munchkin brings you thematically appropriate cards, which is how you might wind up wearing literal Plate Armor and Meals on Heels, armed with a Turkey Baster and Gold-Plated Tongs. In fact, Gold-Plated is an example of a mechanic I haven’t mentioned before: Item Enhancers. These are played in conjunction with items you own to give them an additional combat bonus, and in the case of Gold-Plated, a higher value if sold. Other Item Enhancers include Brightly Colored Plastic and Celebrity Endorsed.
More unique to Crazy Cooks are food tokens. These are an extra reward, split into four types: Meat, Veggie, Drink, and Dessert. As soon as you have a set of all four, you must exchange them for a level, which can be the winning level. Tokens are obtained primarily in combat — each monster in Crazy Cooks is based on food, with a specified token. For instance the Level 4 Fritter Critters are a Dessert monster, so if you defeat them, you get a Dessert token. Some monsters have multiple tokens listed, like Steak Shake, which is both Meat and Drink, but you only get to choose one of them… unless your Class is Science Chef, in which case Recipes Are Only Suggestions, and you get both. Like treasure, tokens can be offered when asking for help in a fight. Also like treasure, some of the combat modifiers will alter the rewards. A few such cards are Liquefied (+3 to monster), which turns all tokens on the monster to Drink, and School Cafeteria, which is a -3 to monster, but also removes all of its Meat and Veggie tokens.
