2025Ed Marriott
- Videos
- 9
- Creators
- 7
1 - 6 players60 - 90 minMedium weight

2014Ed Marriott
Mostly reviews and how-to-play. Scoville is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 25 reviews, 14 how-to-play guides, 5 recorded sessions, and 4 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
The town of Scoville likes it hot! Very hot! That means they love their peppers – but they're too busy eating them to grow the peppers themselves. That's where you come in. You've been hired by the town of Scoville to meet their need for heat. Your role as an employee of Scoville is to crossbreed peppers to create the hottest new breeds. You'll have to manage the auctioning, planting, and harvesting of peppers, then you'll be able to help the town by fulfilling their orders and creating new pepper breeds. Help make the town of Scoville a booming success! Let's get planting! A round of Scoville consists of a blind auction, which determines player order, a planting phase, a harvesting phase, and a fulfillment phase. Each round, the players plant peppers in the fields. Throughout the game, the available opportunities for crossbreeding increase as more peppers are planted. When harvesting, players move their pawn through the fields, and whenever they move between two planted fields, they harvest peppers. If, for example, they harvest between fields of red and yellow peppers, they crossbreed those and harvest an orange pepper. Harvested peppers are then used to fulfill the town's peppery desires!
Scoville has 48 videos from 39 creators: 25 reviews, 14 how-to-play guides, 5 playthroughs and 4 other videos. They date from 2014 to May 2024.
To learn the rules, start with "Scoville - How To Play" by Watch It Played, which runs 18 min. For a quicker teach, "Scoville by Tasty Minstrel Games | Show Me The Rules" by Obsessive Board Gamers runs 6 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Scoville Review - with Tom Vasel" by The Dice Tower. 22 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Dad v Daughter Play Throughs - Scoville" by Dad vs Daughter, one of 5 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Scoville: 2nd Edition and Embarcadero, also by Ed Marriott, or 5 Towers and Trinket Trove, which share several of its mechanics. It appears in convention videos from Gen Con 2014.
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2025Ed Marriott
1 - 6 players60 - 90 minMedium weight
2021Adam Buckingham, Ed Marriott
1 - 4 players60 - 90 minHeavy weight
2023Kasper Lapp
2 - 5 players15 - 30 minLight weight
From BoardGameGeek:
The town of Scoville likes it hot! Very hot! That means they love their peppers – but they're too busy eating them to grow the peppers themselves. That's where you come in. You've been hired by the town of Scoville to meet their need for heat. Your role as an employee of Scoville is to crossbreed peppers to create the hottest new breeds. You'll have to manage the auctioning, planting, and harvesting of peppers, then you'll be able to help the town by fulfilling their orders and creating new pepper breeds. Help make the town of Scoville a booming success! Let's get planting! A round of Scoville consists of a blind auction, which determines player order, a planting phase, a harvesting phase, and a fulfillment phase. Each round, the players plant peppers in the fields. Throughout the game, the available opportunities for crossbreeding increase as more peppers are planted. When harvesting, players move their pawn through the fields, and whenever they move between two planted fields, they harvest peppers. If, for example, they harvest between fields of red and yellow peppers, they crossbreed those and harvest an orange pepper. Harvested peppers are then used to fulfill the town's peppery desires!
Designer
Ed Marriott
Artist
Josh Cappel
Publisher
Tasty Minstrel Games
Categories
Mechanics