ジャム職人さん (Jam Maker) (2021)

You are a jam maker. Let's craft a nice jam! This game includes adorable components like little jam jars and plastic rings that represent ingredients.

The play area contains seven recipe cards, a bag holding the ingredients, and jam jars to be crafted. At the beginning of each round, the player who will go last chooses where to place fresh jam ingredients. The hand-made draw bag includes a mix of eight different ingredients, and different combinations are needed to make different jams.

On their turn, a player moves their meeple to an unoccupied recipe card. Once there, they can take two actions of these three actions: take all ingredients from the card, exchange unwanted ingredients for an ingredient you want, or make the jam on the occupied recipe card. Players can take the same action twice if possible.

After a recipe card is used, it flips over to reveal a more complicated version of the jam, requiring additional ingredients and scoring more points.

Once someone makes 3 jars (4 jars for 2 people), players finish the round and the game ends.