How to play Kahve Falı? Grounds, shapes and tips

Steps of a reading

1. Drink: Each tap on the cup is one sip. Leave a little coffee at the bottom; stop in the striped zone and press Done drinking.
2. Swirl: Draw circles around the cup with your finger. After at least one turn, Turn it over becomes available.
3. Shape: You see inside the cup from above. Press on the lump of grounds and drag your finger; the grounds trail behind and leave a mark where they pass.
4. Open: When the grounds run out the cup opens by itself; you can also press Open the cup earlier. Then come the similarity, the fortune and the tip.

Consistency and swirling

• Consistency: Stop in the striped zone and the grounds are just right. Drink too much and the grounds are few and dry, maybe not enough for the shape. Drink too little and they turn muddy, the wet trail drips down.
• Turns: Tradition says 3 turns. Fewer than 2 and the grounds stay lumpy, the trail is thick and messy. More than 4.5 and the grounds split into parts, the trail scatters.
• Ritual: If the consistency is right and you swirled between 2.5 and 3.5 turns, a happy customer adds a 5 ₺ ritual tip.

Guiding the grounds

The wished shape is shown in the cup with dots, with a ring and an arrow at the start. The grounds follow your finger a little behind: go slowly and wait at corners. On a touch screen the grounds sit a little above your finger so it doesn't hide them. There is just enough grounds to draw the shape once; the rest is shown in a bar. A wet trail drips down for a while; Place ring freezes it at once.

Cup types and two wishes

• Clear cup: All dots of the shape are visible.
• Misty cup (from day 3): Only a few dots are visible.
• Closed cup (from day 5): Only the starting point is visible; you draw the shape from memory.
• Customers with two wishes (from day 4): Two small shapes go on the left and right of the cup. There are two separate lumps; when the first runs out, or when you touch the second, you switch to it.

Symbols

6 symbols unlock day by day: road (travel) and bird (news) on day 1, fish (money) on day 2, heart (love) on day 3, ring (marriage) on day 4, house (home) on day 5. The symbol notebook shows each symbol's meaning, your best similarity and how many readings you did.

Similarity, tips and rings

Similarity looks at two things: how much of the shape is covered with grounds and how much of the grounds lies close to the line. Scattered grounds lower the score.

• 80% or more: 25 ₺ tip and 1 ring.
• 65% or more: 15 ₺, a very happy customer.
• 40% or more: 5 ₺.
• Below that, no tip.

You start with 5 rings and can hold up to 9. If another symbol shows up much more clearly than the wished one, the fortune teller says so.

Read again and end of day

Every customer gives you one free Read again; the better of the two tries counts. If ads are on, you can choose to watch a short ad for one more try. A day ends after 5 customers; an average similarity of 80% or more gives 3 stars, 60% or more gives 2, 35% or more gives 1 star.

Story and rent

You take over the coffee house from your grandmother, Auntie Nermin. On day 2 the landlord, Mr. Fikret, asks for 400 ₺ rent within 5 days; tips pile up in the till. Murat, Uncle Kemal, Zeynep, Can and Mr. Fikret come as customers; their fortunes come true the next day, and a good one brings a 20 ₺ thank-you tip. If the till is short on rent day, Mr. Fikret waits one more day; you can't lose. After the story, the coffee house stays open and the days go on forever.

Common mistakes

• Drinking all the coffee: the grounds run short and don't cover the shape.
• Swirling too little or too much: the trail comes out thick or scattered.
• Moving your finger too fast: the grounds lag behind and cut the corners.
• Forgetting the ring with muddy grounds: the wet trail drips down and spoils the shape.
• Keeping your finger moving after the shape is done: extra grounds scatter outside the shape.