Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Easier to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Light strategy
Luck-sensitive
How it plays
How does it play?
Roll and lock critter and food dice across six rounds, score each animal once, and chase the all-sausage combination that turns every snag into seven points.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Dice Rolling
Roll dice to introduce uncertainty into actions, production, movement, or resolution.
Set Collection
Gather related items that become more valuable when scored together.
Re-rolling and Locking
Keep selected dice and reroll the remainder to pursue a desired result.
Paper-and-Pencil
Record choices and results directly on a personal sheet.
Read the full game description
Sausage Sizzle! is a compact roll-and-write game about hungry Australian animals raiding a barbecue. On a turn, a player rolls critter dice and food dice, then chooses which results to lock before rerolling the rest. A score multiplies the number of matching critters by the food value shown, but each of the six animals can be scored only once during the game. That creates a clean push-your-luck question: bank a workable result now or spend another roll chasing a better group and risk losing the combination. Sausages normally count as just one point, yet four sausage faces together make every sausage worth seven for a spectacular round. After all six rows are filled, the highest total wins. The new English edition fits the entire game into a small box and needs no in-game reading.
