Game: The Sriracha Game
Players: 2-4
Target Audience: potential Sriracha consumers lol
And families with young(ish) children
The rules are simple: the deck is split evenly between players, face down. The person who loves sriracha the most (eye roll) goes first, placing a card face up on the table. The cards are either a food item (tacos, burgers, eggs, etc) or a sriracha card: sriracha cards have anywhere between 1 and 4 bottles on them. Moving quickly in a circle, players place cards in a pile in the middle, until either a pair or sandwich (a pair with an unmatching card in the middle) is achieved, at which point whoever slaps the pile first claims the cards- Or until a sriracha card is drawn. When a player puts down a sriracha card, the next player has to add cards to the pile in accordance with the number of bottles on the sriracha card- OR until they either play a pair, sandwich, or another sriracha card. If a player accidentally slaps a sriracha card, they have to give up two of their own cards. Whoever gets all the cards first wins.
I probably won’t play this game a second time. The illustrations on the cards are adorable (very similar style to Sushi Go), but the whole thing just feels like a money-grab from Sriracha. I think I read the word ‘Sriracha’ like 400 times in the twenty minutes we played. It might be a little more dynamic with more than two players but I doubt we’ll pull it out again. I have a short attention span and generally love high-speed low-stakes games like this one, but there just wasn’t enough going on in the game to make it fun for more than a round. Or maybe we just bought a children’s game on accident.
