Board game “Jam. jam jam game
At the beginning of the game, each player receives a task card.
It depicts combinations of jams and pies, for which the player can get extra points at the end of the game. There are several combinations on the card:
- Jam for the winter - there are several jars of jam on the shelves. If at the end of the game the player has THREE of any of the jams shown, he will receive 7 points.
- Grandmother's pies - there are several pies in a basket. If at the end of the game the player has any TWO basket pies, he will receive 8 points.
- Favorite fruit - the player receives one additional point for each card, at the bottom of which the Ingredient indicated in the task is depicted. For this task, all cards that the player has on the table by the end of the game are taken into account.
A big tea party - there are several jars of jam on the tablecloth and pies. The player will receive additional points depending on how many of the jams and pies they have at the end of the game. To score points for this quest, the player must have at least four of the listed Recipes.
IMPORTANT! One jam can only be used in one combination. If several combinations contain the same jams or pies, the player must have one copy of such a jam or pies for each combination.
Game cards
Each card used in the game is divided into two parts: top and bottom.
An INGREDIENT is depicted at the bottom of the card - this is a berry or fruit from which you can cook the corresponding jam. The RECIPE is indicated at the top, its name is given, and it indicates how many points it brings to the player.
How not to love jam? Sweet cherry, sour cranberry, fragrant strawberry, tart dogwood or exotic walnut - there is jam for every taste. And although now jams and jams of all varieties can be found on store shelves, the most delicious jam- handmade. You open a jar on an autumn or winter evening - and you immediately remember: a hot August afternoon, bowls full of juicy berries, pans puffing on the stove and an incomparable aroma throughout the house ...
"Jam" is a board game in which you need to make jam from all kinds of berries and fruits, as well as bake pies, cut salads and treat guests with sweets. Victory points are awarded for desserts prepared during the game, as well as for completing secret tasks. The one with the most points at the end of the game will win the sweet and savory contest.
Jam, pies and salads are represented in the game by special cards. At the top of the card is a recipe for a treat, such as dogwood jam or a pie with apricot filling. This shows what this dessert is made of and how many victory points it will bring at the end of the game. The bottom half of the card depicts one of the ingredients - strawberries, raspberries, cherries, apples, plums, gooseberries, walnuts or even dandelion.
To prepare a delicacy, the player will need both its recipe and all the necessary ingredients. For example, the player wants to get strawberry jam. On the card with the recipe for this jam, he must another card, where strawberries are indicated as an ingredient. He then places the cooked recipe in front of him on the table and can later use his strawberry jam as an ingredient for a strawberry pie. Well, to create a fruit salad, you need to play four cards at once: a recipe and three ingredients indicated in it - say, dandelion, apricot and the same strawberry.
Before the start of the game, participants receive cards with tasks - lists of pies and types of jam that must be collected by the end of the game. Each completed task brings additional victory points. In a game for two, opponents get two task cards, and for three and four - one each. In addition, each player takes 4 cards from the deck, and 8 more cards with different ingredients are laid out in the center of the table - in the basket. Players go clockwise, starting with the one who last ate the jam.
At the beginning of his turn, the player draws a card from the deck into his hand. After that, he can exchange ready-made recipes with rivals, if they are interested in such an exchange. Then comes cooking time, when the player must play one card from their hand. First, he can make jam with the recipe and the right ingredient by taking one of the required cards from his hand and another from the basket. Secondly, bake a pie according to the recipe from a basket or from your hand - but only if it has ready-made jam for the filling. Thirdly, make a salad - in this case, the recipe must be played from hand, and all three ingredients must be taken from the basket. Finally, if he does not have the desire or ability to cook anything, the player simply puts one card from his hand into the basket. As a final action, he restocks the berries and fruits in the basket by dumping the ingredients from all his recipes, except those just cooked, into it.
In addition to the usual cards with recipes and ingredients, there are two special characters in the deck - Carlsman and Bear. When a player takes such a card from the deck, he does not take it into his hand, but immediately puts it on the table. After that, the competition for the received character begins. The bear loves pastries: it is received by the player who has the most ready-made pies in front of him - however, one pie will have to be discarded as a treat. Carlsman will go to the one who offers him more jam - but at the same time he will eat everything that they give him. Both cards are worth victory points at the end of the game.
The game ends as soon as there are no cards left in the deck or in the hands of the players. Each participant counts his victory points. First of all, he receives points for the ready-made recipes and characters lying in front of him - their value is indicated in the upper right corner of the cards. Then he checks which of the tasks received at the beginning of the game he was able to complete, and adds the required number of points to himself. The one with the highest final score is declared the winner.
"Jam" is a family game that will bring together children and parents, and maybe grandparents at a large dining table. Even preschoolers will be able to take part in the game - especially for them, the rules describe a simplified version, without tasks, exchange of recipes and special cards. Well, if there is no large table at hand, the “road” option will come in handy, in which the game takes up much less space, but remains just as exciting.
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JAM FOR CHILDREN
"Jam" can be played by parents with children and children themselves, even preschool age- for this we have created simplified rules that are understandable to a child of 5-8 years old.The differences from the basic rules are as follows:
Task cards are not used;
Players do not exchange cards;
Special cards are removed from the deck, special rules do not apply;
To determine the winner, players simply count the Recipes they have created and - separately - Patties.
JAM ON THE ROAD
This version of the game is great for trips and travels - here you can do without a large table for laying out cards. The main difference between the basic rules and their "road" version, which makes the game completely different, is this: players exchange Recipes openly, while the exchange cannot be refused.
In addition, to save space, each player's Recipe cards are stacked face down, and in the Basket, cards with the same Ingredients are also stacked.
IMPORTANT!
Both "children's" and "travel" "Jam" can be played with the basic set of the game. You don't need to buy any add-ons or new cards for this!
From what just do not cook jam. In terms of the ingredients used, it is inferior only to moonshine, which, as Ostap Bender assured, can be driven even from stools. If its classic varieties of cherries, apricots, apples and other common fruits are known to everyone, then exotic options, like dandelion jam, have not been tried by everyone. And the board game "Jam" allows you to cook this delicacy from cardboard cards.
The card game "Jam" is another filler from the company "Correct Games". The game was developed by Sergey Machin. I previously reviewed two games by this author - and which has a lot in common with Jam.
So let's open the box and take a look at its contents.
Inside is a deck of cards, four challenge cards, colorful rules printed on a tri-fold glossy A3 paper, and an accordion-folded Right Games flyer.
Now let's look at the cards. In concept, they completely repeat the cards from Potions: at the top is the recipe, at the bottom is the ingredient.
The gameplay of these games is also very similar. Players take cards from the common storage (here called the basket) and combine them with cards played from their hand to assemble various recipes of varying degrees of difficulty.
The easiest way is to make jam. To prepare it, you need to have a recipe and the right ingredient. Using ready-made jam, you can bake pies, for which they already give more points. But most points are given for fruit salads, collected from three simple ingredients.
This is where the similarities with Potions end. Then the differences begin.
For example, points in "Jam" are awarded not during the game, but at its end. That is, if you cooked jam, and then used it to make a pie, then you will get points only for the pie. And, only if you save it until the end of the game.
You can only use your own jam to make pies, you can’t take your neighbor’s ready-made recipes, as was practiced in Potion Making, here. But you can exchange ready-made recipes with other players.
There are much more cooking possibilities in Varenye. First of all, due to the ability to freely play a recipe card not only from your hand, but also from the basket, using a card from your hand as an ingredient.
In addition, at the end of the player's turn, the components of the recipe he collected on the previous turn are returned to the basket. Moreover, the same ingredients are not stacked, as in Potions, but are laid out separately.
The last two circumstances lead to a rich set of recipes with a good set of ingredients. Due to this, the game is very dynamic, as someone is constantly collecting something.
The winner is the player with the most points. At the same time, points are given not only for the collected recipes, but also for completing the tasks indicated on the cards distributed to the players before the game.
And in the game there are two characters - a lover of pies Bear and Karlsman, reminiscent of Carlson beaten by life and copyright. If you manage to persuade them to cooperate, you will receive additional points for this.
Bear and Carlsman good helpers but they need to be fed Impressions from the game were positive. Card fillers are generally a very specific category. board games and consumer attitudes towards them are often biased. Therefore, in order to become commercially successful, such a board game must be attractive both externally and in essence. I believe that "Jam" meets these requirements.
Ah, jam - favorite treat childhood! An endless sunny summer day, scarlet strawberries, fragrant raspberries, sweet apples and the buzzing of bees ... Or a winter evening - cold outside and warm in the house, a bright lamp and brewed tea, it remains only to choose: cherry or peach? Gooseberry or currant? Or open several jars at once and feast on a little? And you can also bake pies with jam ...
But now you can not only eat jam, you can play the Jam board game in any season!
Game mechanics
So, in our game you need to cook a variety of jams and bake pies. At the beginning of the game, each player receives 4 cards from the deck (this is the player's "hand") and a task card, which shows combinations of jams and pies, for which you can get extra points at the end of the game. Players receive victory points for completed tasks, as well as for all cooked jams and baked pies. Whoever has the most points at the end of the game is the winner.
Each card in the game can be used as an Ingredient or as a Recipe (jam, pie, fruit salad). At the beginning of the game, 8 cards from the deck are laid out face down on the table - this is the Basket with Ingredients, various fruits and berries, from which you will begin to prepare your first delicacies.
Also in the rules you will find a version of the game for the smallest.
Card game Jam- the long-awaited little sister of one of the best and most famous board games made in Russia - Potions .
Jam: a little more about the game
Jam similar to older brother Potions not only by name, but also by the process of the game. The meaning remains approximately the same - to make the most of everything and earn points more than the rest of the players. However, there are differences that connoisseurs will see without any problems in the description below :)
The game is designed for children from 7 years old, or even younger. This can be seen not only externally, but also by the rules of the game, which, in comparison with Potions, easier. All rules can be briefly written in two paragraphs. See :).
All players have task cards. Completing them will give you additional victory points at the end of the game. Everyone takes turns. On your turn, you can cook a jam from the ingredients, or bake a pie (using the previously cooked jam), or make a fruit salad, or simply lay out a card as an ingredient. With the mutual consent of the players, it is possible to exchange already cooked recipes with each other. There is a special cone jam that can be cooked from anything, and with which you can bake any pie.
There are also a couple of funny cards in the deck: this is a man in the prime of life "Karlsman" and "Bear" (apparently - with Masha). It is best to lure them to your side, as they give extra points. The first, for example, loves jam - whoever offers more, Karlsman flies to that. And the second one just by himself, without any help, goes to the one who has the most pies.
That's all the rules. However, do not think badly, play Jam very interesting. The creators of the game even took care of even more simple version for children, as well as for the option of playing on the road - after all, it is not always comfortable to lay out various games on the road.
The game also pleased quite good external design, not particularly characteristic of Russian games. All cards are well cut, without flaws, the quality of printing is good. The box is a nice glossy "pocket" into which a cardboard insert is inserted, and into which, in turn, the cards and rules of the game are placed. This insert can not boast of very high quality, but it is also not bad. The rules of the game are in A4 format, which is not very convenient, but, fortunately, they soon turn out to be unnecessary.
The game should be enjoyed by both fans Potions, and those who did not play it, or those who for some reason did not like it. Why? Yes, because the game is beautiful, simple and interesting. And all this - not to mention the fact that family people will definitely like it - because it's great to play with children.
CV GaGaTeam
Perhaps one of best games for a feast and a leisurely tea party. Where, if not at the table, is the place delicious pies With jam.
