About the Sushi What's Missing? Game
Tiny edible artworks — sushi turns rice and fish into something worth crossing town for. Pick up your chopsticks and match maki, nigiri and all the trimmings.
What's in the Sushi deck
The full deck, so you know what to watch for — 12 pictures: 🍣 Nigiri🍙 Onigiri🍱 Bento🍚 Rice🥢 Chopsticks🐟 Fish🦐 Prawn🥑 Avocado🥒 Cucumber🫚 Ginger🍵 Green Tea🦑 Squid
Study tip: link the first three — nigiri, onigiri and bento — into one ridiculous mental picture. Absurd images stick; lists don't. When a picture vanishes, replay the scene and ask what doesn't fit any more.
How to memorise a food and drink board
Cook the board into a menu. Starter, main, dessert, drink — assign every item a course and walk the meal in order. Food decks memorise like recipes because recipes are already ordered lists with logic to them; a random-looking grid becomes a set menu after one pass.
Use flavour and temperature as handles too. Hot against cold, sweet against sour, breakfast against midnight snack — oppositions are memorable, and most food decks are quietly full of them. When the pancake goes missing, "breakfast foods, left side" is a small question.
How to Play
- Press Start and memorise every picture on the board.
- After a few seconds the board hides and one picture is removed.
- Pick the missing picture from the answer choices.
- Each correct answer adds a bigger board. Three misses ends the game.
Fun Facts About Sushi
- Sushi began as a way of preserving fish in fermented rice over a thousand years ago.
- Top sushi chefs in Japan can train for ten years or more.
- Much of the "wasabi" served outside Japan is actually dyed horseradish.
- Sushi means "sour-tasting" — it refers to the seasoned rice, not the fish.
Food & Drink deck questions
A good theme for playing with children in the kitchen?
Yes — name each item, decide who would eat it, argue about dessert. Food vocabulary is everyday vocabulary, so the deck doubles as a language game for small children and English learners.
Any trick for the drinks versus foods mix-ups?
Group them first thing: everything you pour on one side, everything you slice on the other. Food decks punish players who scan randomly more than any other theme.