Card game
Sushi Go!
Pick a dish, pass the rest, build the best sushi meal
- Players
- 2–5
- Best with
- 3-5
- Play time
- 15–20 min
- Age
- 8+
- Rules
- Easy
- Language
- Little reading
Sushi Go! is a quick card game for 2 to 5 players aged 8 and up: everyone picks one card from their hand, passes the rest along, and tries to build the best-scoring plate of sushi over three rounds. It suits families and friends who want something a step more thoughtful than UNO but still learnable in five minutes, and a game lasts about 15–20 minutes. There's no Indian edition, so genuine copies are imports at roughly ₹1,300–2,400, and stock is patchy.
Is Sushi Go! right for your table?
A good pick for
- Families with children of 8 and up who are ready for a little planning
- A 20-minute game before dinner or between longer games on a festival night
- Groups of 3 to 5, since everyone picks at the same time and nobody waits for a turn
- Rummy fans who enjoy collecting sets and want a fresh twist
Skip it if
- You often have 6 or more players. Sushi Go Party! takes up to 8
- You want a copy delivered this week from an Indian specialist store, since all three trusted-store listings were out of stock on 5 October 2026
- Nobody in your group wants to add up scores with pen and paper after every round
How Sushi Go! plays
Shuffle the 108 cards and deal a hand to everyone: 10 cards each with two players, 9 with three, 8 with four and 7 with five. Everyone secretly chooses one card to keep and places it face down. All players reveal their choices together, then pass the rest of their hand to the left. You pick again from a slightly smaller hand, and this carries on until every card has been taken.
The cards you keep score in different ways. Two tempura are worth 5 points, and three sashimi are worth 10. Dumplings get better the more you have, scoring 1, 3, 6, 10 or 15. Egg, salmon and squid nigiri score 1, 2 and 3, but a nigiri placed on a wasabi card scores triple. Maki rolls are a race: the player with the most maki icons scores 6, and second place scores 3.
Two cards bend the rules. If you have chopsticks in front of you, on a later turn you can take two cards from the hand you are holding and then hand the chopsticks back in that hand. Pudding is dessert and stays in front of you until the very end. Whoever has the most puddings gains 6 points, and whoever has the fewest loses 6, except in a two-player game, where nobody loses points.
Because hands keep moving around the table, you are always weighing what you need against what the next player wants. Sometimes the best move is to take a card just so your neighbour can't finish a set. After three rounds, the highest score wins, and if there is a tie, the player with more puddings wins.
Takes about 5 minutes to teach. Each card has a short English label with its scoring printed on it, such as 'Wasabi: next nigiri x3' or the dumpling scale 1-3-6-10-15, so once the rules are explained you mostly read numbers. You don't need to know anything about sushi. Someone has to keep score with pen and paper after each round.
Buying Sushi Go! in India
There is no Indian edition, and we found no Indian distributor, so every genuine copy is an import. On 5 October 2026 the Gamewright edition on Amazon.in was priced above Indian stores. Indian specialist stores listed it at ₹1,300 (Board Games India, Zoch edition), ₹1,750 (Gameistry, Zoch edition) and ₹2,400 (Gameistry, Gamewright edition), but all three were out of stock.
Gamewright's edition (stock #249, 108 cards in a small tin) is the one listed on Amazon.in. Board Games India and Gameistry have also listed an edition from Zoch Verlag, the German publisher. Sushi Go Party! is the bigger version for 2 to 8 players: Gamewright's box has 181 cards, 22 menu tiles, 8 wooden pawns and a game board, and lets you choose a different menu of dishes each game. It is sold in India through Amazon.in (B01CETNKE2). No trusted Indian store had it in stock. Spin-offs include the dice game Sushi Roll and Spin Some for Dim Sum.
How to make sure you get a genuine copy
Clone risk: High- Look for the Gamewright name on the tin, or Zoch for the European edition. Listings titled 'Sushi Go Family Board Game' under unrelated brand names are not from the publisher.
- Check the price. Genuine imports cost ₹1,300–2,400 at Indian stores. It is also sold on Amazon.in. Much cheaper look-alikes are a warning sign.
- Check the packaging. Gamewright's Sushi Go! comes in a small metal tin (about 4 × 5.6 inches), and Sushi Go Party! comes in a larger box with a board and 8 wooden pawns.
- Count the 108 cards: 14 tempura, 14 sashimi, 14 dumpling, 12 two-maki, 8 three-maki, 6 one-maki, 10 salmon nigiri, 5 squid nigiri, 5 egg nigiri, 10 pudding, 6 wasabi and 4 chopsticks.
- Be wary of a cheap 'Sushi Go Party! Deluxe'. Check the brand, the seller, and that the price is in line with the Indian store prices given in this guide. Gamewright's own Party listing is the one to compare against.
On 5 October 2026, an Amazon.in search for 'Sushi Go' returned at least six look-alike listings under unrelated brand names, ranked above Gamewright's own listing. The real game isn't made in India, so a price far below about ₹1,300 is a warning sign.
If Sushi Go! isn't quite right
7 Wonders
Uses the same pick-and-pass idea in a longer, deeper game about building a civilisation
Azul
A similar step up from family card games, with drafting tiles instead of cards
Splendor
Another quick set-collection game for 2 to 4 players, with a bit more long-term planning
Also worth a look (not in our catalogue yet): Sushi Go Party! – The same game for up to 8 players, with a different menu of dishes each time.
Questions people ask about Sushi Go!
Is Sushi Go available in India?
Yes, but only as an import, because there is no Indian edition. On 5 October 2026 the Gamewright edition on Amazon.in was priced above Indian stores. Board Games India (₹1,300) and Gameistry (₹1,750–2,400) listed it but were out of stock.
Can you play Sushi Go with 2 players?
Yes. The game supports 2 to 5 players, and with two you each get 10 cards. The rulebook also has an optional two-player variant in which you take turns controlling a third 'dummy' hand, which makes the passing feel more like a bigger game.
Should I buy Sushi Go or Sushi Go Party!?
Sushi Go! is the small tin for 2 to 5 players, with a fixed set of dishes. Sushi Go Party! takes 2 to 8 players and lets you choose a different menu from more than 20 dishes each game, but the box is bigger and it cost about twice as much on Amazon.in.
What age is Sushi Go suitable for?
Gamewright says 8 and up. The picking and passing is simple, but players add up points after each round, so younger children can join in if an adult keeps score.
Sources
Facts on this page come from the publisher, Indian distributors and the store listings below. Prices were checked on 5 October 2026.
- Sushi Go! – Gamewright (publisher page)
- Sushi Go! rules of play – Gamewright (PDF)
- Sushi Go Party! – Gamewright (publisher page)
- Sushi Go! – Phil Walker-Harding (designer page)
- Sushi Go! – Wikipedia
- Sushi Go! (Zoch Verlag) – Board Games India
- Sushi Go (Zoch Verlag Edition) – Gameistry
- Sushi Go (Gamewright Edition) – Gameistry
Prototype notes for review (won't appear on the live site)
- Amazon match: exact link, high confidence. Listing title seen: "Gamewright Sushi Go! - The Pick and Pass Card Game".
- How it was found: COMPOSIO_SEARCH_AMAZON on amazon.in, 5 October 2026, queries 'Sushi Go card game Gamewright', 'Sushi Go Party' and 'Sushi Go'. B00J57VU44 showed at ₹2,191 with about 16,500 ratings (4.7). The same ASIN is Gamewright's Sushi Go! on Amazon.com. No India-made edition was found, so it is treated as an import. Several low-priced look-alike listings ranked above it in the 'Sushi Go' search.
- Seller, stock and import status of Amazon.in listing B00J57VU44. The ₹2,191 price comes from search results, and Amazon pages were not opened, per policy.
- Both Gameistry pages reuse the Sushi Go Party! description text, so the exact contents of the ₹2,400 'Gamewright Edition' listing could not be confirmed. It is assumed to be the base game.
- The rules language of the Zoch Verlag edition listed by Board Games India and Gameistry was not confirmed. Ask the store before ordering.
- Year: the designer says he self-published the first edition in 2013 and that Gamewright's edition followed in 2014.
- Play time: Gamewright says 15 minutes and the designer's site says 20 minutes.
- The tin packaging is based on retailer listings and Gamewright's item size, since Gamewright's page doesn't say 'tin'.
- Bored Game Company once had a Sushi Go Party! page (in.boredgamecompany.com/products/sushi-go-party/), but it now redirects to the catalogue, and its current availability could not be checked.
- A 'Sushi Go! Refresh' for 2-6 players appears on Walmart.com but not on Gamewright's product page, and we didn't check whether it is sold in India.
- Who makes the low-priced 'Sushi Go' listings on Amazon.in (₹449–849) was not confirmed. Sushi Go Party! was not found in stock at any trusted Indian store.