Diced Veggies ... on a bed?

We finally got to play Diced Veggies at a hotel room.  Sadly, while the preview photos of the room showed a long desk, there was only one chair, so there was no comfortable place to try a new game.

Boy, this does not work on a bed.  The main gimmick is to set up the 35 dice in the square frame and trim off some dice with the cardboard cleaver.  

You start with two recipe cards and a booster card.  Basically, each turn you try to carve out some dice you need from the grid of dice and match the colors to the colors in one of your recipe cards.  If you can match the numbers or sums on a booster card, you score those points too.  As I recall, at the end of a turn there is a max of two recipe cards, two booster card, and 8 dice that you can keep.  The rest have to be discarded.  The dice go back into the rectangular frame.  And when you complete a recipe, those dice also go back into the grid.  Each card scores around 4-5 points.

Each player gets a chef token they can use to change the color or number of a die, and when there is a missing color in the remaining dice cake, all the dice are rerolled and reset, and the players get their tokens back.

The flow of the game was okay, but the unevenness of everything on the bed was ridiculous, so we didn't really get a good look at it.  The cardboard cleaver taking apart a hunk of dice was refreshingly weird as a game mechanic, as expected.  Then it was just matching dice.

We will try again when we get to a flat surface that's not cluttered with other projects.