Karate Tomate

About this board game

Karate Tomate is a culinary martial arts tournament game for 3–10 players that plays in about 20 minutes. Released in 2018, it challenges players to learn fighting techniques, collect trophies, and gather enough kitchen knives to avoid a losing finish.

In this extraordinary tournament, players learn from the Tomato, the great karate master. The competition combines the world of vegetables with the discipline of karate, creating a playful setting where trophies and kitchen knives are both important to victory.

As the game progresses, focus on collecting trophies while also building up your supply of knives. Trophies matter, but they are not the only measure of success. The knives become especially important at the end of the game, when they are used to clear out enemy vegetables.

• Players: 3–10
• Play time: approximately 20 minutes
• Setting: an extraordinary culinary martial arts tournament
• Key goals: learn fighting techniques, collect trophies, and gather kitchen knives

The final condition creates a crucial twist. You should not be the player with the fewest knives; if you are, you lose regardless of how many trophies you have collected. That rule makes every knife count and ensures that a strong trophy total cannot protect the player who falls behind in the kitchen.

With its unusual combination of karate, vegetables, trophies, and kitchen knives, Karate Tomate offers a compact competition in which players must keep both kinds of progress in mind. Pursue glory in the tournament, but never neglect the knives needed for the final reckoning.