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And here we go with the food.

Sushi Go! / Sushi Go Party!
2-5p (Party!: 2-8p ) / 7^ / 20-25m

A simple drafting game. Players simultaneously choose one card
from their hand to keep, reveal them, and pass their hand to the
next player. This is repeated until all the cards have been taken.
The players score points according to their cards and then discard
them. After 3 rounds of this, the player with the highest score wins.
That’s the whole game right there. But how do the cards score?
(On each card is a reminder of how it scores, so players
don’t have to constantly remember all of the following.)

Nigiri (yellow): Scores its printed value from 1-3 points.
Wasabi (yellow): Wasabi scores no points by itself. The next Nigiri you
keep goes on top of your Wasabi – it scores 3 times its printed value.

Tempura (purple): Each set of 2 Tempura cards scores 5 points.

Sashimi (green): Each set of 3 Sashimi cards scores 10 points.

Maki Rolls (red): Each Maki Roll card has a value from 1-3.
The player with the highest total of Maki Rolls scores 6 points,
and the second-highest total, 3 points.
(If players tie for first, they split the points and no second place
points are awarded; if players tie for second, they split the points.)

Dumplings (blue): The more Dumplings you have, the more you score.
One Dumpling=1 point, two=3, three=6, four=10, five (or more)=15.

Puddings (pink): Unlike the other cards, Puddings are not discarded
at the end of each round, and are scored only at the end of the game.
The player with the most Puddings scores 6 points, and the player
with the fewest Puddings loses 6 points (both are split if tied). Also,
if 2 players tie for most points, the player with more Puddings wins.
(In a 2-player game, the one with fewer Puddings doesn’t lose points.)

Chopsticks: Chopsticks score no points at the end of the round.
However, they are useful while you have them. If you already
have a Chopsticks card, when choosing a card, you can shout
“Sushi Go!” and choose 2 cards to keep instead of 1. If you do,
you must put the Chopsticks into that hand of cards.

Those are all of the cards in Sushi Go(!). Sushi Go Party! is played the
same way, but includes more cards of each type, allowing for 3 more
players, and more types of cards in each color – the players choose a
type for each color during setup (recommended setups are included).
Additionally (of particular interest to frum Jews), S.G. Party includes
a scoreboard and pawns so that scores don’t have to be written down.