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Main Catalogue | BOARD GAMES & CARD GAMES | Rio Grande Games | Mamma Mia

Mamma Mia

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Card Game, 2-5 Players by Rio Grande Games 2-5 players, 30-40 minutes designed by UWE ROSENBERG Bohnanza and Schnäppchen Jagd are two Uwe Rosenberg card games that use a light-hearted theme to front for a game with depth and subtle strategies. Mamma Mia follows in the light-hearted flavor of these two but the end result is a game that, while fun to play, is definitely lighter weight. Making pizzas is the name of the game here, and each player has eight orders to fill over three rounds. Some of the pizzas require a specific mix of toppings, while others use specific quantities of any of the five different ingredients. (As a nice touch, the five player colors match up with the five ingredients: green for pepper, red for pepperoni, etc.) Game play is simple: on your turn, you must play ingredient cards (as many as you want, but only of one type) and may play a single order card, then refill your hand to seven cards. When someone picks the single Mamma Mia card, they get the duty to score the cards at the end of the round. After the deck runs out, the Mamma Mia player turns the deck upside down and starts to sort the cards by ingredient. As orders come up, they are ``filled\'\' by the ingredients in the sort, and can be supported with cards from the order-maker\'s hand. Filled orders get put aside, short orders get put back in the player\'s order stack, and after three rounds of this the player with the most filled orders wins. Simple concept, but there are some nice touches that add to the strategy of the game. When filling your hand back to seven, you can pick from the ingredient stack or your own order stack, but not both. You need orders to fill, but at the end of the round you want to be holding ingredients to help fill out those short orders. The order mix is well designed. Several pizzas require a definite mix, while a few can use any ingredient in a specific number. The ``Pizza Minimale\'\', for example, requires one specific ingredient and three of the ingredient with the fewest in the sort stack at that time. The ``Pizza Bombastica\'\' needs 15 total ingredients in any combination to complete, but additionally uses more cards if they exist in the sort, clearing the cards sorted up to that point. Good memory is required to win this game, but it is much more than a memory game. The more players, the harder it is to successfully lay the pizza you want since others will play orders using the ingredients. You can help your own cause, of course (``three pineapples, and the pineapple pizza\'\') but need to closely watch both the ingredients played and the orders placed. The Mamma Mia player card is interesting; more than just the scoring designator, it also determines the start player for the next round. Since ingredients not used in the round are carried over into the next, this is significant. If Mamma Mia is close by, you likely benefit from having order cards in your hand at the end of the round, so that the right one can be played at the start of the next round to optimize the ingredients left over. Otherwise, you may be better off holding more ingredients to help fill the orders placed in that round. In play, the game is fast and fun. Usually many more orders are placed than can be filled, as there is no direct penalty for an unfilled order. Interaction is common and encouraged, and clearly conflicting orders often create a verbal spar between the two chefs. For some strange psychological reason, players feel compelled to speak in bad Italian accents, adding to the light-hearted feel. The scoring is part of the fun and tension, as cards are placed and orders pop up. Will you have the extra cards needed to complete the Pizza Maximale you placed? Will the next guy\'s Bombastica wipe out the olives you were counting on? I\'ve played Mamma Mia with dozens of different people and it is hard not to have fun. It is not Rosenberg\'s best effort, but should be on your game shelf.

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