- BGG rating
- 6.4
Food Truck Champion: Helpers Mini Expansion
- 2–5 players
- 60 min
- 2017
- BGG rank
- BGG #6,721
- BGG rating
- 6.5
Food Truck Champion
2017
Rules assistance for Food Truck Champion
Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.
- 1–5 players
- 45–75 min
- 8+
- Complexity 2.6/5
For 1 player
Rules assistant for Food Truck Champion
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Food Truck Champion is a board game released in 2017 for 1–5 players, 45–75 minutes per game, and ages 8 and up. It was designed by Nicole Jekich and Luke Turpeinen and its main mechanics are Hand Management, Set Collection, and Pattern Building.
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About the game
Food Truck Champion is a game in which each person plays the owner of a new food truck out to make a name for itself. You will hire staff, cook food and please customers to earn awards and popularity. At the end of the day the food truck with the most popularity wins! FTC uses a lead-follow action system that focuses on the different aspects of running a food truck. Driver Action gives you access to the market to acquire ingredients to store in your fridge. Cashier Action gives you access to an assortment of customer orders ready to be prepared and served up. Prep Cook Action allows you to move ingredients in your fridge to the customer orders. Executive Chef Action allows you to play ingredients directly from your hand to a customer order. Manager Action gives you access to the labor pool to hire additional Drivers, Cashiers, Cooks, and Chefs to make your future actions more effective. As owners of the food truck, you have a special wild card that you can take into your hand, allowing you to act in any capacity when the need arises. At the start of the game, each food truck has a small fridge, a narrow plating area, and limited room for staff. Each completed order gives you a popularity token worth victory points and it allows you to expand one of the areas of your truck, or even expand the card limit in your hand. At certain points in the game, judges will review the orders you've completed and allow you to move certain cards into your awards area, giving your bonus VP for each set of awards you complete. When a certain number of popularity tokens have been claimed, the game ends and the food truck with the most victory points is declared the Food Truck Champion!
Designers
Publishers
- Daily Magic Games
- Schwerkraft-Verlag
Questions and answers
Food Truck Champion supports 1–5 players according to the catalogue. This range comes from the publisher’s listed player count, so the game can be set up for any group size within it. Some setups, rules and scoring details may still vary by player count, so check your edition’s rulebook for the exact configuration.
The listed playing time for Food Truck Champion is 45–75 minutes. This is the publisher’s estimate for a full game. The actual duration depends on the group, the player count and familiarity with the rules: first sessions usually run longer, while experienced groups often finish faster. Setup and teaching time are not included in this estimate.
The catalogue lists Food Truck Champion for ages 8 and up. This is the publisher’s recommendation and reflects reading demands, rule complexity and small components rather than theme alone. Younger players can often join with help from an adult, so check the age guidance on your edition and consider your group’s experience with board games.
Food Truck Champion has a complexity rating of 2.6 out of 5 from BoardGameGeek players, which makes it a medium-light game. The rating reflects how much rules knowledge, planning and decision-making a typical game demands. Expect a longer first teach for heavier games, and use a preparation guide before game night.
Food Truck Champion belongs to these categories: Card Game, Economic, and Industry / Manufacturing. Its main mechanics are Hand Management, Set Collection, and Pattern Building. Categories describe the theme and setting of a game, while mechanics describe what players actually do on their turns. Each mechanic links to a catalogue hub with similar games, which helps when you want something comparable.
The credited designers of Food Truck Champion are: Nicole Jekich and Luke Turpeinen. These credits come from the published game data and name the people responsible for the game’s design, not its illustrators or publishers. Designer pages on MeepleRules collect other titles by the same designers, which helps when you enjoy a game and want to find similar ones.
The catalogue lists Food Truck Champion as a base game. It can be played on its own with the components in the box and does not require any other title. Expansions, if any exist, add new content or rules on top of it and are listed separately in the catalogue with a link back to this base game.