Hibachi: Fired Up!
铁板烧
Toss chips onto the grill for ingredients; the first chef to cook three dishes wins.
- 2–4 players
- about 25 min
- Easy to pick up
- Dexterity & speed
- Family
- Food
The goal
Be the first to complete 3 recipes.
How it plays
- 1Everyone has 4 chips worth 100, 200, 400 and 600, and 1,200 yen. Three recipes lie face up.
- 2Throwing: starting with the head chef, take turns tossing one chip onto the board, face down if you can. With two or three players each throws all 4; with four, each throws 3. Your hand may not pass over the board's outer edge or the chip is void; knocking other chips about is allowed.
- 3Cleaning up: turn all chips face up. Starting with the head chef, take turns activating one of your own chips and taking it back, in one of three ways: trigger the space it is on, cook a recipe, or do nothing.
- 4An ingredient space lets you buy one matching ingredient card for the combined value of all chips on that space, or sell one of yours for twice that. Other spaces give tips, a chili, a reserved recipe, another chip placement, or a free ingredient.
- 5Cooking: discard the three ingredients a recipe asks for and put it in front of you. Once per recipe, 2 chili cards may stand in for any one ingredient.
How you win
The game ends after the round in which someone cooks a third recipe. A lone player with three wins; among several, whoever has the most money left wins.
First time?
- An ingredient costs the total of all chips on its space, so an extra chip there prices a rival out.
- Chips thrown face down keep everyone guessing what a space will cost.