Cheese! deck
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| Cheese! | |
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| Designers | VTBassMatt, Geoff Zelenka, Rachael Ramsey, Michael Ziray, Jeremy Fried, Katie Pehowski, Christy Cooper |
| Date | 19th April 2007 |
| Players | 2-7 |
| This is a playable deck - it's finished, tested and ready to play. | |
| To play Dvorak: Draw five cards each and leave the rest as a draw pile. On your turn, draw a card from the draw pile and play one Thing and/or one Action. (See the full rules.) | |
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Oh no! You're throwing a party, and the guests will be here soon. Find four cheeses and three other foods to feed them or they'll be mad!
Notes
When you draw these cards, you should include a witty or amusing picture between the title and the type of the card. Many cards lend themselves well to this sort of thing.
Feel free to remove, rename, or drastically alter the Partygoer Actions. They are somewhat self-referential to the party where this deck was invented and may not make sense for your gathering.
Rules created by the New Rule Action become permanent members of your Special Rules set for your deck. Please post interesting ones on the Talk:Cheese! deck page, but don't edit our canonical deck here.
Special Rules
- You may play cards onto other players or their personal area. Most cards make it clear who legal victims are.
- When any player amasses four cheeses and three other foodstuffs (crackers, beverages, etc.), s/he immediately wins the game.
- Turns include a new phase before the draw phase. This is the Barter phase. The player may propose and carry out any sort of trade (goods, services, etc.) with any player.
- When a player plays a cheese Thing for the first time in the game, s/he must read its caption in a dramatic voice before the end of his/her turn. Otherwise, s/he must discard the cheese.
- Optional rules if the game moves too quickly or slowly:
- A simple majority of players may vote to raise or lower the number of cheeses or other foodstuffs required to win.
- The Refrigerator protects only a single cheese in play, not all of a player's cheeses.
Card List
Nacho Cheese
Thing - Cheese
Drizzly...
Feta
Thing - Cheese
Crumbly!
Mozzarella
Thing - Cheese
Goes great on pizza!
Cream Cheese
Thing - Cheese
Philadelphia is in Pennsylvania.
Monster Muenster
Thing - Cheese
Scarily good.
Swiss
Thing - Cheese
This cheese has HOLES!
Pinball Cheez Whiz
Thing - Cheese
He sure plays a mean pinball.
Brie
Thing - Cheese
A hunk-a creamy cheese for you :)
Gouda
Thing - Cheese
This is a round cheese.
Goat Cheese
Thing - Cheese
Baahh!! (editors note: confused goat)
Provolone
Thing - Cheese
Bland, but aged.
Pepperjack
Thing - Cheese
Hot stuff ;)
Taco Cheese
Thing - Cheese
Add more cheese to that taco!
Vermont Cheddar
Thing - Cheese
Whitey.
Cheddar Cheddar
Thing - Cheese
Action: Anyone with a non-English Cheddar in play must discard it.
Real cheese comes from England.
Real cheese comes from England.
Bleu Cheese
Thing - Cheese (moldy)
There is no caption on this cheese.
Gorgonzola
Thing - Cheese (moldy)
Crumble-ievable!
Moldy Cheese
Thing - Cheese (moldy)
Special: Destroy one cheese you have in play. This card counts as two Thing - Cheese (moldy).
Can't even tell what kind it is!
Can't even tell what kind it is!
Mold
Thing - Spoilage
Play this card on another player's cheese. That cheese does not count towards their victory while this card is in play. May not be played on a moldy cheese. When this card leaves play, whatever cheese it was last attached to counts as a moldy cheese.
Matzo
Thing - Cracker
Only counts towards victory if you control 5 cheeses.
Crackers
Thing - Cracker
Iss hawd to tawk wif my mouf full of cwackuss.
Ritz
Thing - Cracker
Ritz it up.
Saltine
Thing - Cracker
When this comes into play, choose one of your cheeses in play. That cheese now counts double.
Cheese and Crackers
Thing - Cracker
Counts as both a food and a cheese. Cannot be targeted by actions which target Thing - Cheese.
Water
Thing - Beverage
Fru-fru Expensive Beer
Thing - Beverage
You can barely afford this beer: discard one of your cheeses when you play it.
Riesling
Thing - Beverage
Does not count as a food unless you have Brie, Gouda, or Swiss in play.
Cheesecake
Thing - Food
Counts as both a food and a cheese. May be targeted by actions which target cheeses.
Tortilla Chips
Thing - Food
Does not count towards your food requirement unless you have Nacho Cheese or a melted cheese in play.
Cheez-Its
Thing - Food
Counts as both a food and a cheese. May be targeted by actions which target cheeses.
Ritz-Bits
Thing - Food
Worth three foods, but only if you also have Ritz in play. Otherwise, counts as zero foods.
Grapes
Thing - Food
Mmmm.
Macaroni
Thing - Food
Shells, most likely.
Refrigerator
Thing
Protects your cheeses from the effects of any spoilage.
Powdered Cheese Mix
Thing
If you have Water in play, this counts as a cheese.
Velveeta
Thing
Counts as a cheese if you have Macaroni in play.
Lunchbox
Thing
When this card comes into play, choose one of your cheeses in play. As long as this card remains in play, that cheese is protected from any spoilage.
Lactose Intolerance
Action
Select a player who must discard all in-play cheese. If you have any cheese in play, select one to lose to spoilage.
Microwave
Action
Select one of your cheeses to melt. Melting does not remove it from play.
Cheese Wiz
Action
Choose one of your cheeses in play. This no longer counts as a cheese; instead, it counts as a food.
Spoiled Cheese
Action
Select a victim player. Select one of his/her cheeses; this cheese is lost to spoilage. If that player has a Rodent in their hand, they must also discard it. Cannot target moldy cheese.
Replicator
Action
Make a copy of any food or cheese in play and put it into play under your control.
Cheese Bandit
Action
Take one food or cheese from another player's control and put it into your hand.
Police
Action
May be played immediately, not just on your turn. Still counts as your action for your next turn. When someone plays Cheese Bandit, you may confiscate the evidence. The food or cheese they stole goes into your hand instead.
Yeast
Action
Turn a Matzo you control into Bread, which does not have the 5-cheese restriction.
Cheese Grater
Action
Turn any cheese in play into two identical cheeses. Cannot target melted cheeses.
Rodent
Action
Steal one cheese from another player and put it into play under your control.
Wine
Action
Add a generic food item to your control, but lose your next turn due to hangover.
Cheese Spreader
Action
For each cracker you control, double the cheese value of one cheese you control.
Partygoer Matt
Action
Matt eats a player's cheese. Choose any cheese under anyone's control to discard.
Partygoer Jeremy
Action
One cheese under anyone's control becomes a Coconut instead. This counts as a food.
Partygoer Katie
Action
Katie shows up, gets drunk, and eats half of someone's cheese. Round down--she's small.
U-Turn
Action
Play immediately, not just on your turn. Counts as your action for your current or next turn. Reverse the last action that targeted you or something you control; play it on the original action's controller.
Reverse Card
Action
Play immediately, not just on your turn. Counts as your action for your current or next turn. Reverse the last action that targeted you or something you control; discard it.
RaNdOm!
Action
Each player needs to count how many Things they have in play. Do not count Things which are attached to other Things (like Mold). Instead, remember which Thing they target. Collect all in-play Things from all players, shuffle them, and redistribute them so that each player has the same number they originally had. Finally, determine who got each targeted Thing and reattach the effect Things (so if Player A had Feta with a Mold card, now that Player B has Feta, that Feta is still Mold-y).
To The Left
Action
All players pass all played cards to the player on their left. Editors note: when this card was created, its picture was a huge arrow that pointed to the right. Not sure why.
Dumpster Diving
Action
Root through the discard pile and take any card of your choice into your hand. If it is a Thing, you may play it this turn as your Thing.
Google
Action
Take anyone's played Thing card and place it into play under your control.
New Rule
Action
Starting with you and moving in the opposite direction to how you take turns, each player may add a rule without requiring a vote, or may veto any rule which has been proposed because of this card. When the last player has made or vetoed a rule, you receive one more veto if you desire (even if you already made a rule at the beginning).
