The overall game of Master Chef is pretty simple. Lots of chefs compete in various challenges. One is eliminated each week until only one remains. However, the interesting thing about Master Chef is its format on any given episode is based on the number of players remaining. When there are odd numbers of players, there is a Mystery Box challenge (make something with the ingredients found in a box) whose winner gains an advantage in the subsequent Elimination challenge. The next episode will have the even number of players left over compete in teams with the losers competing in a Pressure Test (some very specific cooking challenge like cooking one rare, one medium, and one well done steak or make a souffle) to determine who is eliminated.
I think it's very interesting how the game switches from an individual competition to team and back throughout the competition because it's a very simple way to really change up a game. Unfortunately, it's harder to design a board/card game like this because in most cases, eliminating players while playing a board/card game is a bad idea, which is a topic all its own. Even without elimination, this constantly changing format can still be used quite effectively, as evidenced by games like The Resistance and Are You the Traitor? where your team and allies are constantly changing. Imagine a game like Pictionary where some game element causes the teams to change mid-game and your score was based on how many times you were on a team that got a right answer. How would that change the strategy? Maybe you wouldn't guess the right answer because someone else with a lot of points is on your team. Depending on how often teams change and how new teams are picked, this might be an interesting twist on a classic game. Or maybe you could alternate between
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