Just Desserts

Serve the right desserts to the right guests in a café race, where a favourite dish earns you a tip.

Designer: Andrew Looney
Published by: Edge Entertainment
Editions by: Looney Labs

The guests are here, they are hungry, and each has opinions. In Just Desserts (2015), you are a waiter at a café, trying to be the best one by serving the right desserts to the right guests. Each dessert card shows one to three tastes, such as chocolate, fruit or pastry, and each guest card says what they crave and what they refuse. On your turn you draw a dessert, add a guest, then choose: serve one or two guests by discarding matching desserts, draw another dessert, or dump as many cards as you like and redraw. Give a guest their favourite and you earn a tip card. For two to five players, about 25 minutes.

Dessert cards show one to three tastesGuests have cravings and refusalsFavourite dish earns a tip card

Who it's for

You like quick card games with a clear matching puzzle and want something light for up to five.

Not for you if…

You want a deep strategy game. Pattern matching and a race to claim guests make it a light card game.

Vibe's take

Light and a little frantic. You are always matching tastes against refusals, and the guest in the middle you were eyeing can vanish before your turn comes.