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How to Play Sushi Go Rules for Rulebook haters

I love games but hate reading rulebooks. This How to Play Sushi Go Rules guide was compiled to assist you in getting your game started quick.

What is the goal?

For each card left on an opponent’s hand after you discard all your cards, you earn points. Be the first to score 500 points.

Sushi Go Game setup

  • Shuffle all the cards
  • Based on the number of players, deal the following to each player:
    2 players: deal 10 cards,
    3 players: deal 9 cards,
    4 players: deal 8 cards,
    5 players: deal 7 cards
  • Cards are held in hand and kept secret from others

How to Play Sushi Go in Simple Steps


“Sushi Go” is a card game played over three rounds, where players aim to score the highest points by choosing and passing cards:

  1. Start of Round: Each player picks one card from their hand and places it face-down. Once everyone has chosen, the cards are revealed.
  2. Passing Cards: Players pass their remaining hand to the player on their left, then pick up their new hands, continuing this until the hands shrink each turn.
  3. Using Wasabi Cards: If you select a nigiri card (squid, salmon, or egg) while you have a wasabi card in front of you, place the nigiri on the wasabi to triple its value. Each wasabi can only hold one nigiri card.
  4. Using Chopsticks Cards: These allow you to choose two cards in one turn. After choosing your first card, announce “Sushi Go!” to pick a second card. You must then return the chopsticks card to your hand before passing it on.
  5. End of Round: The round ends when the last card is passed and played. Players then score based on the cards collected. Unused cards, except pudding cards, are discarded. Pudding cards stay until the game ends.
  6. Scoring Puddings: After three rounds, pudding cards are scored. The player with the most pudding cards scores 6 points; the one with the fewest loses 6 points. In the case of ties, points are split. In two-player games, only the player with the most pudding cards scores, with no penalty for having the fewest.
  7. Winning the Game: The player with the highest total score after three rounds wins. Ties are broken by the number of pudding cards.

Sushi Go Scoring

MAKI ROLLS

Sushi Go Maki Rolls
  • Add all the maki rolls at the top of the card.
  • The player with the most scores 6 points.
  • 2nd place scores 3 points.
  • If tied for the most, divide the 6 points evenly and ignore the remainder. 2nd place does not score any points.
  • If tied for second, divide the 3 points evenly and ignore the remainder.

Tempura

Sushi Go Tempura
  • A set of 2 cards scores 5 points.
  • You score zero for a single card.
  • Multiple sets can be scored in a round.

Dumpling

Sushi Go Dumpling

Score points based on the number of dumplings held:

1: 1 point
2: 3 points
3: 6 points
4: 10 points
5: 15 points

Sashimi

Sushi Go Sashimi

A set of 3 cards scores 10 points.
A single card or a set of 2 scores 9. Multiple sets of sashimi can be scored in a round.

Nigri and Wasabi

Sushi Go Nigiri and Wasabi

A squid nigiri scores 3 points., and if on top of a wasabi scores 9 points.
A salmon nigiri scores 2 points, and if on top of a wasabi card scores 6 points.
An egg nigiri scores 1 point, and if on top of a wasabi card scores 3 points.
A wasabi card with no nigiri on it scores zero.

Chopsticks Card

Sushi Go Ckopsticks Card

A chopsticks card scores nothing.

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