Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Easier to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Light strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Secretly ration your effort at a chaotic bakery: work just hard enough to keep the order—and your job—alive.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Betting and Bluffing
Risk resources on uncertain outcomes while disguising intentions or information.
Hand Management
Time and sequence a limited hand of cards to preserve future options.
Semi-Cooperative Game
Players share some objectives while retaining individual victory conditions.
Push Your Luck
Choose whether to secure current gains or risk them for a larger reward.
Simultaneous Action Selection
Choose actions secretly or concurrently before revealing them together.
Auction: Sealed Bid
Bid against other players to determine who receives an item, action, or priority.
Read the full game description
L’oaf is a semi-cooperative bluffing game about bakery employees determined to do as little work as possible without getting fired. Each baker holds the same numbered work cards and secretly commits one toward the round’s bread order. If the group reaches its target, the hardest worker gains reputation; if it fails, the biggest loafer loses it. Because played effort also disappears from your final score, every order becomes a tense read of who will carry the team and who is quietly saving energy for later. Five successes or failures end the shift, but anyone with negative reputation after a failed bakery is fired before scoring.
