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TomaTomato

TomaTomato Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

  • Cards
  • How to Play
  • Gaps In This Transcription

Cards

The game uses four kinds of cards. Each kind carries a picture and a syllable:

  • tomato (tomato picture)
  • ma (shown as a demon)
  • mato (shown as a target)
  • to (shown as a door)

How to Play

  1. Turn over four kinds of cards.
  2. Read the line of cards. Each card is read as its syllable, from left to right, and the cards together form one word. For example, a tomato card followed by a door card reads "tomatoto", and a tomato, door, demon and demon line reads "tomatotomama".
  3. As the game goes on, the line gets longer and harder, and it becomes increasingly confusing to read. The infographic shows a long line of eleven cards (tomato, to, ma, ma, mato, to, mato, mato, tomato, ma, to) and the spoken word printed in its speech bubble: "tomatotomamamatotomatomatotomatomato".

Gaps In This Transcription

The infographic is a summary of core play only. The following are not shown in the source and are not transcribed here:

  • Setup, including the number of cards dealt or placed and how many players the game supports.
  • Turn order and what a player does with the turn after reading the line.
  • How a reading is judged correct or incorrect, and what happens on a mistake.
  • Win and lose conditions, scoring, and the end of the game.
  • Whether the rules use any dice, and any simplified or variant rules (a "no dice" variant is mentioned in outside commentary but is not in the source).
  • Card counts for each kind.