Sushi Go Party!

Edition and menu: This entry follows Gamewright's 2016 Sushi Go Party! Rules of Play, product #419, for BGG 192291. The game supports 2–8 players. Choose a fixed menu or make a custom menu following the rulebook; a custom menu includes Nigiri, one of the three Roll types, three Appetizers, two Specials, and one Dessert. Put only the selected cards in the game. Menu and Special Order are for 2–6 players; Spoon and Edamame are for 3–8 players, so neither is used in a two-player game.

Setup and deal: Put the scoring board in the center and set each player's pawn to zero. Place the tiles for the chosen menu where everyone can see the card rules. Shuffle the selected non-Dessert cards together and keep selected Desserts separate. Play three rounds; shuffle the round's specified Desserts into the main deck before dealing. Hand size is 10 cards for 2–3 players, 9 for 4–5, 8 for 6–7, and 7 for 8 players. Use 5/3/2 Desserts in rounds one/two/three for 2–5 players, or 7/5/3 for 6–8 players.

Simultaneous pick and pass: Each round, everyone secretly chooses one card from their hand and places it face down. When all players are ready, reveal choices together. Pass the remaining hand face down to the player on the left, then take the new hand from the right. Repeat until all hands are empty. Ordinary cards stay in front of their owner for round scoring; special cards are discarded, copied, or moved aside when their text instructs.

Same-turn order: Reveal the normal pick first, resolve extra actions, then pass hands. Chopsticks and Spoon cannot activate on their initial turn; call them during a later reveal. Resolve these bonuses and simultaneous Menu/Takeout Box effects in ascending lower-right number. Menu draws four unused cards, immediately plays one that is not another Menu, returns and shuffles the other three, and discards itself beside the board. It cannot chain into another Menu.

Common sets: Egg, Salmon, and Squid Nigiri score 1, 2, and 3; Nigiri placed on an unused Wasabi is tripled, and each Wasabi can hold one Nigiri. A pair of Tempura scores 5; three Sashimi score 10; incomplete sets score zero. Dumplings score 1/3/6/10/15 for one/two/three/four/five or more. Exactly one Eel loses 3, while two or more score 7. Tofu scores 2 for one, 6 for two, and zero for three or more.

Majorities and races: Maki icon totals award 6/3 for 2–5 players or 6/4/2 for 6–8. Ties get full points and the next distinct total gets the next scoring tier; at least one Maki is required. Temaki most gets four and fewest, including zero, loses four, with no two-player penalty. Uramaki reaching ten icons immediately takes the next 8/5/2 place and discards its rolls. Same-turn finishers compare icons, then share a still-tied place and skip following places accordingly. Most icons remaining at round end earns the next unawarded place; one player can score multiple places.

Appetizers and colors: Each Edamame scores opponents with any Edamame, up to four per card, or zero if alone. Count Miso Soup across the entire pick turn, including normal reveal and every later bonus action, not just one instant. Exactly one Soup stays to score three at round end; multiple Soups played that turn are all discarded, leaving earlier-turn Soups unaffected. Soy Sauce counts this round’s background colors including itself and only this round’s Desserts; most or tied-most earns four per Soy Sauce. Each Tea scores the card count of your largest same-color group. Onigiri sets of one to four distinct shapes score 1/4/9/16, allowing multiple sets.

Spoon, copies and flipping: Spoon searches leftward for a named general type or exact variant; the holder chooses among variants for a general request. Play the received card and hand over Spoon, or discard Spoon if nobody has it. A Special Order played normally from hand points at its previously played target before reveal. Copying Nigiri does not copy the original Wasabi tripling; copied Wasabi starts empty. Takeout Box flips cards played on earlier turns this round into identity-less two-point cards. An established Special Order copy stays its chosen type even if the original is later flipped.

Round and final scoring: Set aside played Desserts, score other cards, then reshuffle non-retained cards and add the next dessert allotment. After round three, Pudding most scores six and fewest, including zero, loses six, ties taking full amounts; no two-player fewest penalty. Green Tea Ice Cream scores twelve per complete four-card set. Fruit icons score each of watermelon, orange and pineapple separately: 0/1/2/3/4/5+ icons yield −2/0/1/3/6/10, summed across all three. Highest total round plus dessert points wins, then most dessert cards. Special Order copying a Dessert is retained too, not reshuffled next round.