The game lasts several rounds until one player has reached 15 points. In a round, first each player chooses one of the four puzzle chambers, taking all components and a tile of the puzzle chamber. After that, all players flip their puzzle tile and simultaneously start to solve their puzzles.

In Scharfe Schotten, a card trick game, it’s not the amount of tricks that matters but the fulfillment of a players predictions. The backs of the cards tell a player which spices his opponents want to mess up his menu with. If the player guesses correctly which tricks he will collect and which he can avoid, he scores points. And if he’s able to top off the menu with a hot seasoning, he can force his opponents to eat their hearts out at the last end of the course. At least, that’s what the introduction to the game describes us.
Each player gets 4 prediction tiles -one tile in each colour, keeping these for the entire game. Each round he also receives 10 spice cards. The remaining cards are laid out by colour, face down, forming the spice cupboard. Over these randomly number cards are put, determining both the ranking of the super trumps and the ranking of the colours. Before the game starts, each player makes two predictions: which card colour he will take more cards of than any other colour, and which card colour he will take fewer cards of than any other colour.
Play then starts by one player playing a card. All other players must follow suit, the player taking the trick by common rules. That player also takes any one card from the spice cupboard without looking at the front -number- of the card. He sorts, by colours, all these cards face down in his personal collection. When all spice cards have been played, the round ends with the taking of the final trick. The players receive points if their predictions were completely or partly correct. Each correct prediction scores five points; if it is partially correct, it scores three points. Play continues until each player has been starting player once.