Tori Tori Trend

You are popular influencers posting pictures of cute birds. And now, taking pictures of little birds with sweets, called Tori(bird)-Tori(sweet) photo are the craze on the streets! You drop by to a well-known bird café "Tori-Bar-Do", to not be late to the trend. Photo shooting many charming photos, you post Tori-Tori photos every day. Although be careful because trends always change! Check the ever changing trends and post the outstanding best photo against your rivals! This is a card game with simple rules, you want to get a high score by manipulating the trend ranking.

Each player will be dealt 7 photo cards (each card is a unique combination of a bird and a treat). During setup, 12 trend cards (6 birds and 6 treats) will be lined up randomly from top to bottom, birds and treats separately, with the top being marked by the top trend card. A round of the game takes 6 turns. Every turn, players will play one of their cards to manipulate both trend rankings – as the cards depict both a bird and a treat, they will need to raise the rank of one of them and decrease the rank of the other (you move the trend cards only by one position up or down). Decreasing the rank of a card that is already at the bottommost place will put it at the top and raising the rank of a card that is at the topmost place will put it at the bottom of its line. After 6 turns, each player should be left with one photo card in their hand – this is their scoring card. Each player checks the trend position of the bird and treat on their photo card and calculates their score (the highest trend bird/treat card is worth 6 points, the second highest 5 points, and so on; so, for example, if your remaining photo card depicted a budgie and a donut and their corresponding trend placement was the budgie as the top bird trend and donut as the third highest treat trend, then your score would be 6 + 4 = 10 points). The player with the most points earns a score token. The game ends after the round in which one of the players earns his second score token.

There is also a variant to play the game with special “joker” cards, in which each player is dealt 8 cards instead of 7 (one of them is the joker card), and they choose between two remaining cards to score at the end of the round.