Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
How it plays
How does it play?
Stir Fry Eighteen is a game about cooking stir fry while deceiving your opponents and trying to score the most points at the table. Players draw additional cards each turn by discarding either pairs of matching ingredients or "protein cards" face down.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Deck / Bag Building
Add new pieces during play to improve the cards, tokens, or dice drawn later.
Hand Management
Time and sequence a limited hand of cards to preserve future options.
Set Collection
Gather related items that become more valuable when scored together.
Memory
Remember previously revealed information, positions, or sequences.
Read the full game description
Stir Fry Eighteen is a game about cooking stir fry while deceiving your opponents and trying to score the most points at the table. Players draw additional cards each turn by discarding either pairs of matching ingredients or "protein cards" face down. Each player draws a card each turn and then may discard face down ingredients to draw more cards. Players can call for a Taste Test and flip these cards over! Catching another player using false ingredients is super tasty and grants you more cards, but beware, wrongly accusing a player will cost you all of your cards!