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Sushi Draft!

More Cucumber Maki or salmon roll?

Sushi is featured on the menu today and players turn it into a competition - you want to win victory points by eating more Sushi of a kind than the other players or eat most varieties of sushi for dessert points. There are five different types of sushi - 8x Tuna Sushi, 7x California Prawn, 6x Salmon Roll, 5x Cucumber Maki, 4x Mackarel Temaki - and also two joker cards that can replace each type of sushi.

Then there are also 18 chips that show each of the sushi types three times and also three times dessert and carry victory points on the back side.

Each player is dealt six cards for his hand. You choose one card and lay it out face-down, keep one more in your hand and hand on the rest. This is repeated five times. Then you score the displays and take Sushi Points if you have most sushi of one kind and dessert points if you collect most varieties of sushi. In case of a tie the points go the player in second place. A joker can only be used for a type of sushi of which you already hold a minimum of one card. After three such rounds you win with the highest total score.

In the Advanced Rules joker cards only count for half a card in a collection of one type. Should your sushi collection hold a card with a Wasabi symbol, the collection of this type is only worth half a variety to make achieving dessert a lot harder.

Sushi Draft offers, with simple and few means, a very well-working card game despite some imbalance between luck and tactic; luck dominates due to the card dealing and you cannot predict what will come back to you. And yet, Sushi draft is an attractive and fun family game!

Players: 3-5

Age: 8+

Time: 15+

Designer: Takahiro

Artist: Not named

Price: ca. 11 Euro

Publisher: Blue Orange Games 2014

Web: www.blueorangegames.eu

Genre: Drafting, set collecting

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr it nl pt + jp

In-game text: no

Comments:

High chance factor

Not really predictable

Some tactic possible due to watching other players

Compares to:

All sorts of collecting games using drafting

Other editions:

KogeKogeDo / Japon Brand

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0