Introducing Taster Cards
A Taste for the King is a push your luck bluffing card game. The game plays by one player (the Taster) showing a hand of cards to their opponents and then deciding what to...
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Options to Limit Feedback in A Taste for the King
In my previous post I wrote about considering augmenting the Say One Thing rule with an additional restriction. I am looking at possibly reducing the number of players who can give feedback about the...
Updates to A Taste for the King – Autumn 2023
It’s been a while since I blogged about the developments to A Taste for the King despite putting it through regular iterations. A Brief History The game no longer has a voting mechanism as...
Replacing Voting in A Taste for the King
I recently added voting to A Taste for the King. The idea was to give players more to do outside of their turn. To give incentive for voting, players would get to score dishes...
Protospiel Online Feedback Jan 2023
Last weekend I attended Protospiel Online (Jan 2023). I took A Taste for the King, Flip Control (Working Title) and during the weekend I came up with a new idea and gave that a...
Safe – The Newest Addition to A Taste for the King
In my efforts to make A Taste for the King more interactive between players, I have added a new mechanism to the game. This comes in the form of an ability: Safe. Each player...
A Taste for the King Updates – July Edition
I recently play tested A Taste for the King at the Board Game Designers Online Discord play testing session. I wanted to trial the use of out of turn actions within the game. Ultimately,...
Out of Turn Actions – Playtest
In the last couple of posts I talked about changes to A Taste for the King to address down time. The first was an attempt at a form of concurrent play which went rather...
The Botched Playtest (and Why That’s OK)
Following feedback from the playtests at UKGE I quickly took A Taste for the King to a Break My Game session with some major changes. One person had suggested a potential solution to add...
Considering Out of Turn Actions (And Other Updates)
One suggestion given at UKGE for A Taste for the King was to give players a list of actions they can do out of their turn, limited perhaps to once per game. I have...