French Toast
BGG rank
BGG #6,187
BGG rating
6.9

French Toast

2021

Rules assistance for French Toast

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 2–10 players
  • 5–10 min
  • 6+
  • Complexity 1.3/5

For 2 players

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French Toast is a board game released in 2021 for 2–10 players, 5–10 minutes per game, and ages 6 and up. It was designed by Peter C. Hayward and its main mechanics are Deduction, Cooperative Game, and Team-Based Game.

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About the game

In each game of French Toast, one player acts as the Toastmaster, drawing a Secret Word that you and your friends have to guess. The catch? The Toastmaster may only communicate by repeating your guesses back to you! Each time someone makes a guess, the Toastmaster must decide whether that guess is “closer” to their Secret Word than the “closest” previous guess. If the new guess is closer, the Toastmaster repeats it back to you. If the new guess isn’t closer, the Toastmaster repeats the closest previous guess instead. Keep making clever guesses to get closer and closer to the Secret Word until you can guess the Secret Word itself! What makes one guess “closer” to the Secret Word than another? It’s completely up to the Toastmaster! They can use whatever criteria they think will help you guess the Secret Word – and hopefully the rest of you can figure it out! You have only six rounds to guess the Secret Word, so make every guess count!

Questions and answers

French Toast supports 2–10 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.