{"id":19249,"date":"2025-08-29T16:08:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/?p=19249"},"modified":"2026-01-26T15:23:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:23:16","slug":"fruit-cocktail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/blog\/2025\/08\/29\/fruit-cocktail\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruit Cocktail"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fruit Cocktail est, apr\u00e8s Migo, mon deuxi\u00e8me petit jeu de cartes dans la collection des Feux Follets, chez Ghost Dog, avec les m\u00eames illustrations color\u00e9es et g\u00e9om\u00e9triques de Fran\u00e7ois Morin. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Mon prototype s\u2019est d\u2019abord appel\u00e9 salade de fruits, l\u2019id\u00e9e \u00e9tant que dans, une salade de fruits, on s\u2019efforce de mettre de bons produits, mais qu\u2019il arrive que quelques fruits soient un peu pourris. Dans un cocktail de fruits, ou plut\u00f4t un Fruit Cocktail, c\u2019est un peu la m\u00eame id\u00e9e, en international.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comme Migo, Fruit Cocktail est n\u00e9 de la volont\u00e9 de cr\u00e9er un petit jeu de 18 cartes, format assez appr\u00e9ci\u00e9 par les \u00e9diteurs ces derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es. Comme Migo, le jeu a peu \u00e0 peu pris du volume au cours des tests, passant \u00e0 24, puis \u00e0 32 cartes, et ne tient donc plus dans le format initial. C\u2019est souvent \u00e0 cela que servent les contraintes \u2013 donner un point de d\u00e9part, quitte \u00e0 s\u2019en affranchir ensuite. Du coup, ce qui \u00e9tait dans les premi\u00e8res versions un jeu \u00e0 deux joueurs \u00e0 information parfaite est devenu un jeu pour 2 \u00e0 5 joueurs, \u00e0 information presque parfaite, chaque joueur sachant un petit truc que les autres ne savent pas mais qu\u2019ils peuvent essayer de d\u00e9duire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Une partie de Fruit Cocktail \u00e0 Etourvy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u00c0 chaque tour, chacun \u00e0 son tour prend sur la table une carte qui repr\u00e9sente un certain nombre de fruits. Ce serait tout simple si les cartes prises par les joueurs ne d\u00e9terminaient pas aussi la valeur finale des diff\u00e9rents fruits. C\u2019est une m\u00e9canique de jeu simplissime, mais qui fait de sacr\u00e9s n\u0153uds au cerveau. Yoann Levet, l\u2019auteur de Kronologic et Turing Machine, est d\u2019ailleurs fan de Fruit Cocktail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L’\u00e9diteur, Ghost Dog, ayant \u00e9t\u00e9 repris par un autre, en l’occurence Don’t Panic, la sortie de Fruit Cocktail a \u00e9t\u00e9 un peu retard\u00e9e, mais le jeu arive bient\u00f4t en boutique. Et Don’t Panic est le seul \u00e9diteur auquel je puisse rendre visite \u00e0 peid, ce qui est quand m\u00eame pratique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il y a une toute petite erreur dans les r\u00e8gles du premier tirage du jeu, que la plupart des joueurs n’auront sans doute m\u00eame pas remarqu\u00e9e. En p.3, il est \u00e9crit que chaque joueur a 6 cartes evant lui en fin de partie. C’est bien s\u00fbr faux, puisque 16 cartes ont \u00e9t\u00e9 prises. Le prermier joueur en a 6, les deux autres seulement 5.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fruit Cocktail<\/strong>
Un jeu de Bruno Faidutti
Illustr\u00e9 par Fran\u00e7ois Morien
2 \u00e0 4 joueurs \u2013 15 minutes
Publi\u00e9 par Ghost Dog<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fruit Cocktail is, after Migo, my second game in the Ghost Dog small box series, with the same cute colorful and geometric art by Fran\u00e7ois Morin.<\/p>\n\n\n

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My prototype was first called Fruit Salad. The idea was that players try to get good tasty fruits, but that some of them are ripe, or even rotten. It\u2019s the same with a Fruit Cocktail, but the name is more international.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Migo, Fruit Cocktail was originally intended to be an 18 card game, a format popular with publishers these last years. Like Migo, it grew bigger after a few playtests, 24 cards, then 32, too many to fit in the wallet game format. That\u2019s often the point of constraints \u2013 they give a starting point, but one should not hesitate to abandon them when they become too much of a constraint. As a result, what was originally a perfect information 2 player game is now a 2-5 player game with just a bit of hidden information that the opponents can try to deduce.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A game of Fruit Cocktail in Etourvy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Every round, each player in turn takes a card which represent a few fruits. What makes the choice tricky is that the cards taken by the players also determine, step by step, the end game value of the different fruits. It is mechanicall a very simple game, but it is also a brain burner \u2013 as you can guess from the fact that Yoann Levet, the designer of Turing Machine and Kronologic, is a fan of this game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The publisher, Ghost Dog, has recently been bought by another publisher, Don’t Panic. As a result, the publication of Fruit Cocktail has been delayed, but the game will now soon be there. And Don’t Panic is the only publisher I can visit on foot, which is very convenient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s a minor error in the rules of the first print run, which most players probably didn’t even notice. on p.3, it is written that, in a 3 player game, each player will end with 3 cards in their display. It is obviously false, since only 16 cards have been taken. The first player has 6 cards, the two other players five.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fruit Cocktail<\/strong>
A game by Bruno Faidutti
Art by Fran\u00e7ois Morin
2 to 4 players \u2013 15 minutes
Published by Ghost Dog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fruit Cocktail est, apr\u00e8s Migo, mon deuxi\u00e8me petit jeu de cartes dans la collection des Feux Follets, chez Ghost Dog, avec les m\u00eames illustrations color\u00e9es et g\u00e9om\u00e9triques de Fran\u00e7ois Morin. Mon prototype s\u2019est d\u2019abord appel\u00e9 salade de fruits, l\u2019id\u00e9e \u00e9tant … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[541,549,523],"class_list":["post-19249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fruit-cocktail","tag-dont-panic-games","tag-fruit-cocktail","tag-ghost-dog-games"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Fruit-Cocktail-cover.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2HNOP-50t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19249"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19327,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19249\/revisions\/19327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}