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Spicy Pop

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Mechanisms

  • End Game Bonuses
  • Hand Management
  • Open Drafting
  • Set Collection
  • Take That
Release
10/2026
Publisher
Little Rocket Games
Designers
Ren Takahashi
Languages
English, Italian
Age
10+

Spicy Pop is a fast-paced card game where ingredients become numbers and every combination matters.

Collect cards from the market and create combinations using exactly two different ingredients: one suit adds positive values while the other subtracts them. Your result must follow the growing numerical sequence, forcing players to carefully plan every turn.

Special Salt cards let you adjust your calculations by ±1, while Pepper cards introduce direct interaction, allowing you to pass trouble to your opponents—or finish a round in spectacular fashion.

End rounds at the perfect moment, manage your hand efficiently, and avoid collecting too much Pop, because the player with the lowest total Pop at the end of the game wins.

Simple rules, quick turns, tactical decisions, and constant player interaction make every game different.