Hawker Wars
Hawker Wars Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
In the Game
4 Hawker Cards
- Chinese Hawker Stall
- Indian Hawker Stall
- Malay Hawker Stall
- International Hawker Stall
53 Ingredient Cards
- Meat / Seafood x 9
- Rice / Noodles x 9
- Water x 9
- Spices x 8
- Egg x 5
- Flour x 5
- Chili x 5
- Wildcard x 3
17 Dish Cards
- 4 x Chinese Stall: You Tiao (Ingredients: Flour, Water, Egg; 2 points)
- 4 x Indian Stall: Fish Head Curry (Ingredients: Seafood, Water, Rice, Spices; 3 points)
- 4 x Malay Stall: Nasi Lemak (Ingredients: Meat, Rice, Chilli; 2 points)
- 4 x International Stall: Ma La Xiang Guo (Ingredients: Meat, Noodles, Spices; 1 point)
- 1 x Rojak Dish (Ingredients: cook this dish with any 5 ingredients; 3 points)
25 Action Cards
The Action cards are marked with one of five card types: Attack, Gain, Swap, Stop and Event.
- Price Inflation (Attack): Target hawker has to cook with 1 extra ingredient for the next dish they cook.
- Family Recipe (Gain): Play with any 3 ingredients on hand to cook any dish.
- Copycat Stall (Swap): Swop your Hawker card with another player.
- Licence Suspended (Stop): Stop a player's action. Can be played anytime.
- Food Poisoning (Event): This card cannot be stopped. Play immediately: All players to hold their stomach with 1 hand for a turn. First player to let go loses 2 cards from their hand.
5 Event Cards
Event cards are kept apart from the Action cards and are shuffled into the Action draw pile during setup (see Table Setup). The component panel shows the Food Poisoning card as the Event card example.
Table Setup
Separate the Ingredient cards, Dish cards, Action cards, and Event cards.
- Open Dish cards: Place 4 Dish cards face up at a time. You can only cook Dishes from here. If you cook a dish, refill with new Dish cards at the end of your turn.
- Black Market: Place used Ingredient cards here. Trade 2 Ingredients on hand for 1 Ingredient from here. At the start of the game, place 3 Ingredient cards face up here.
- Action draw pile: Place Action cards face down.
- Action discard pile: Place used Action cards here.
- Ingredient draw pile: Place Ingredient cards face down.
- Event cards: When all cards are given out at the start of the game, shuffle Event cards evenly in the Action draw pile. If you see an Event card at the top of the Action draw pile, play it immediately before starting your turn.
How to Play
Objective: Be the first player to cook Dishes and earn the target number of points. (See "How to Win" for target points based on number of players.)
To start: Each player selects a Hawker card and starts with 4 Ingredient cards and 1 Action card on hand. The player who last visited a hawker center starts first.
On each turn: Draw 2 Ingredient cards from the Ingredient draw pile and 1 Action card from the Action draw pile.
Then, play up to 2 of the following actions:
- COOK - Cook 1 Dish from the open Dish cards by matching the Ingredients on hand with Ingredients on the Dish card. Place used Ingredients in the Black Market.
- ACTION - Play 1 Action card.
- TRADE - Trade 2 Ingredients on hand with 1 Ingredient from the Black Market.
Game ends: When the first player reaches the target number of points.
TAKE NOTE! You can hold a maximum number of 10 cards on hand at the end of each turn. Discard any excess cards.
For Frequently Asked Questions: go to www.hawkerwars.com/faq
How to Cook
Match the Ingredients on hand to Ingredients on the Dish. Place used Ingredient cards in the Black Market.
How to Trade
Trade any 2 Ingredients on hand for 1 Ingredient from the Black Market.
How to Win
First player to cook Dishes and reach the target number of points for the game wins!
Target points to win the game:
- 2 player game: 15 points to win
- 3 player game: 13 points to win
- 4 player game: 11 points to win
Bonus
Dish cards are colour coded by Hawker stalls. Add 1 bonus point for each dish you cook from your stall.
Example: cooking You Tiao (2 points) from the Chinese Hawker Stall gives +1 bonus, for a total of 3 points.