2026William Attia
- Videos
- 20
- Creators
- 17
2 - 4 players45 - 90 minHeavy weight

2025Devrim Özsoy
From BoardGameGeek
Halflings: Best Chef is a competitive dice placement game where players strive to be elected the Best Innkeeper of the 7 Shires. Decorate your inn, collect fine beverages, and cook with top-quality ingredients to earn the highest standing. Players start by rolling dice, and placing them on action spaces to gather ingredients, collect spices, sell goods, buy decorations, and cook dishes. Each action helps you build your inn's reputation. The game ends when a player completes a menu with a starter, main course, and dessert. Points are tallied based on dishes cooked, unused ingredients, decorations, and other resources. The player with the highest standing points wins. Strategically manage resources, place dice, and use modifiers to outwit opponents and become the most renowned innkeeper in the 7 Shires!
Halflings: Best Chef has 3 videos from 3 creators: 1 review, 1 how-to-play guide and 1 playthrough. They date from May to June 2025.
To learn the rules, start with "Halflings: Best Chef - How To Play" by Board Games Everybody Should, which runs 18 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Halflings: Best Chef Review - Chairman of the Board" by Chairman of the Board. To see it played, watch "Halflings: Best Chef Playthrough - So Many Potatoes!" by BoardGameCo.
If you like it, try Greylune, The Artemis Project, Sailing Toward Osiris or Churchill, which share several of its mechanics.
2026William Attia
2 - 4 players45 - 90 minHeavy weight
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1 - 5 players60 - 75 minMedium weight
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2 - 5 players60 - 90 minMedium weight
2015Mark Herman
1 - 3 players60 - 300 minHeavy weight
From BoardGameGeek:
Halflings: Best Chef is a competitive dice placement game where players strive to be elected the Best Innkeeper of the 7 Shires. Decorate your inn, collect fine beverages, and cook with top-quality ingredients to earn the highest standing. Players start by rolling dice, and placing them on action spaces to gather ingredients, collect spices, sell goods, buy decorations, and cook dishes. Each action helps you build your inn's reputation. The game ends when a player completes a menu with a starter, main course, and dessert. Points are tallied based on dishes cooked, unused ingredients, decorations, and other resources. The player with the highest standing points wins. Strategically manage resources, place dice, and use modifiers to outwit opponents and become the most renowned innkeeper in the 7 Shires!
Designer
Devrim Özsoy
Artists
Szilvia Laszlo, Devrim Özsoy, Pakupena
Publisher
Self-published
Categories
Mechanics