HOW TO PLAYTSUKIJI MARKET

A duel of offers, bluffs, and the freshest fish in Japan's most famous market.

1) Two chefs, one market: the goal is to collect the best fish

You are one of the two best chefs in Tokyo, fighting at dawn to get your hands onthe freshest ingredients.

Each fish card has a color, can have special effects, and contributes to your final points.

Whoever combines the best winscolor set,wasabi symbolsAndfinal position of the scale.

2) Each turn new fish is loaded… and the flash auction begins

A new fish is revealed from the dock.

Both players make a simultaneous secret bid: it's a challenge ofintuition and bluff, because too high an offer… can backfire.

3) The scale is the heart of the game: losing the bar makes the weight advance towards you

Whoever offers the most gets the fish, butthe difference between the offerspushes theweight on the scaletowards the one who lost the auction.

If you keep losing by large margins, the weightit moves more and more towards your side, approaching the critical threshold.

4) If the scale reaches the limit, you can steal a fish from your opponent

When the weight reaches the end on your side, the most powerful effect in the game is triggered:

you geta direct theftand takea fish cardfrom your opponent's piles.

It's a mechanic that turns every bid into a risky decision: winning the auction is not enough, you have to controlHow muchrisks.

5) End of game and score

When the market runs out, each chef calculates points based on:

thepiles of fish of different colors,

thewasabi symbolson the cards,

therefinal position of the scale(more push towards you = more points).

Whoever scores the highest score proves to be the best chef in Tsukiji Market