Pick a tapa, pass the plate — build the best table

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A card-drafting game: everyone keeps one card at the same time and passes the rest along. Build sets, steal the olive majority, and watch what your neighbour is collecting.

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Players

2-5

Length

15 min

Difficulty

Easy

Mode

Competitive

Rules and tips written and play-tested by the Apateon team (Zanacode S.A.S.) · Updated October 14, 2026

What is Tapas?

Pick a tapa, pass the plate. Three rounds to build the best table. 2-5 players.

If you have played Sushi Go!, you already know the idea: Tapas is inspired by it and adapted to play online, everyone on their own phone, with bots for missing players.

Sushi Go! is a trademark of its publisher. Apateon is not affiliated with or endorsed by it.

Tapas on Apateon

Tapas on Apateon — screenshot 3 of a game on a phone

Tapas on Apateon — screenshot 4 of a game on a phone

How to play Tapas

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Everyone is dealt a hand of tapas. Keep one card in secret, then pass the rest to your left.
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Keep picking from the hands that reach you: croquetas pay in pairs, jamón in threes, olives if you have the most.
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Three rounds, then dessert: most churros gets a bonus. Highest score wins.

Full Tapas rules

Pick and pass

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Everyone is dealt a hand (10 cards with 2 players, 9 with 3, 8 with 4, 7 with 5).
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All at once, each player keeps one card face down. When everyone has picked, the picks are revealed onto each table.
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Then every hand passes one seat to the left, and you pick again from what reaches you — until the hands are empty.

What each tapa scores

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Croquetas: every pair scores 5. A lone one scores nothing.
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Jamón: every set of three scores 10. One or two score nothing.
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Bravas: 1, 3, 6, 10, then 15 for five or more.
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Pinchos: pan con tomate 1, tortilla 2, gambas 3.
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Alioli: triples the next pincho you take after it. On its own it scores nothing.
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Olives: most olive symbols scores 6, second most scores 3 (ties split, rounded down).

Toothpicks

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Toothpicks score nothing — but on a later turn you may keep two cards instead of one.
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The toothpicks then go back into the hand you pass on.

Churros and the end

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Churros stay on your table across all three rounds and are scored once, at the very end.
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Most churros gets +6, fewest gets −6 (with two players, nobody loses points).
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After three rounds, the highest total wins. Most churros breaks a tie.

Tips to win at Tapas

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Watch what passes through your hands: if ham has almost stopped coming round, do not start a set of three you cannot finish.
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Take the alioli early and save room for prawns: a tripled prawn skewer is worth 9 points.
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Croquettes score 5 per pair and a single one is worth nothing: skip the first one if you see few in play.
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Do not forget the churros: they are counted after all three rounds and whoever has the fewest loses 6 points.

Two players

Easy to learn

Card games