#fold-it

[hetgeelpionneke]

Fold-it by Goliath can be played at Het Geel Pionneke from december 2017.

[aflyingcontradiction]

The race is on to find out who’s the best chef in town, and only the cook with the fastest hands and the cleverest plan will win! Your goal in Fold-it! is to cook recipes the fastest, based on the order cards. When an order card is revealed, everyone starts cooking at the same time. In order to cook the order, each player takes their individual recipe cloth and folds it so that it shows only the items displayed on the order card. The round ends once all players have finished their order, and if you made the order incorrectly or were the last to finish, you have to give up a star token. If you lose all three of your stars, you're out of the game. Once only one player is left with a star token, they’ve won the game!

Games I played at Essen, No. 23: Fold-it

This is another “easy to understand, hard to master” game. You have a cloth printed on both sides with squares depicting food. You’re trying to fold the cloth along the lines so that only the squares shown on the cards are visible. The last player to finish loses a life. Three lives and you’re out.

I like the puzzle part of this game a lot. I think I’d get frustrated by the trying-to-be-faster-than-the-two-people-in-my-friend-circle-who-are-really-good-at-this-shit part pretty fast. Fortunately I was playing against my bro-in-law and husband as well and they were even worse than I was, so the timing element didn’t get frustrating as fast. But yes, that bias aside: I like the idea of this game (it’s pretty unique). I don’t think I’d play it very much in practice.