How to play Simit Tycoon? Rules, businesses and tips

How to play Simit Tycoon?

The game is a three-step loop:

1. Sell: tap a business card to start a round. When the round ends, that business's earnings for one round go into your till.
2. Buy: buy more units of the same business. Each unit raises what one round earns, but the price goes up a little with every purchase.
3. Hire a master: a business with a master starts its own rounds; you no longer need to tap, and it earns even while the game is closed.

At the start, Uncle Rıza guides you step by step: tap the cart to sell your first simit, buy a second cart, save ₺60 to open the Tea House, then save ₺150 to hire Uncle Rıza as your master. The first time you play, Uncle Rıza's short story is shown too; you can skip it, and watch it again any time with the "Story" button in the game menu.

Controls

• Business card: tap the card or the business picture to start a round. On a business with a master, tapping makes the master say something.
• Buy button: buys the selected amount; the button shows the total price.
• Master button: pay the fee to hire that business's master.
• Buy amount: pick x1, x10, x100 or Max above the list; Max buys as many as you can afford.
• Street: tap the bubbles that appear in the street scene at the top (orders and Ferry Rush customers).
• Tabs: Shops, Recipes, Tasks, Awards and Branch.

The top right button opens the game menu (settings, story, account, back to site) and the top left button shows your statistics. Sound effects and music can be switched off separately in the settings.

Businesses

There are 7 businesses from the simit cart to the factory, plus a local shop that changes at every stop. The next business appears once you open the previous one. Starting price, round time and master fee:

1. Simit Cart: ₺4, 1 second, master ₺150
2. Tea House: ₺60, 3 seconds, master ₺3,750
3. Pastry Stand: ₺1,080, 6 seconds, master ₺80,000
4. Local Bakery: ₺17,280, 12 seconds, master ₺1.2 million
5. Patisserie: ₺311,040, 24 seconds, master ₺12 million
6. Börek Chain: ₺4.98 million, 96 seconds, master ₺180 million
7. Simit Factory: ₺89.6 million, 6 minutes 24 seconds, master ₺2.4 billion
8. Local shop: ₺1.8 billion, 12 minutes 48 seconds, master ₺50 billion

The local shop depends on the stop your branch is at: a mussel stand in Kadıköy, the Simit Palace in Kızılay, a döner shop in Berlin, a simit truck in New York and so on. Every stop also has its own master.

Speed milestones and tiers

When a business reaches 25, 50, 100, 200, 300, 400 and 500 units, its round time is halved each time, so its earnings double. The bar under the card shows how far the next milestone is.

The same milestones also give a visual tier: Bronze at 25 units, Silver at 100, Gold at 200 and Diamond at 300. Gold and Diamond businesses shine in the street.

Masters and earnings while you are away

A business with a master starts its own rounds and sells non-stop. Every master has a name, a face and sayings of their own; the Simit Cart's master is Uncle Rıza.

When you close the game, businesses with masters keep earning, up to 3 hours of income. When you come back you take it with "Collect", or you can choose "Double it" by watching an ad. Businesses without a master earn nothing while you are away.

Recipes

The Recipes tab has 28 recipes. Each is bought once and multiplies your earnings for good:

• Business recipes: every business has 3 recipes, and each one triples that business's earnings. They cost 1 million, 1 billion and 1 trillion times the business's starting price.
• General recipes: 4 recipes double all earnings: ₺100 million, ₺100 billion, ₺100 trillion and ₺100 quadrillion.

Recipes reset when you open a new branch; you buy them again in every branch.

Ferry Rush

While the game is open, a ferry docks at the pier every 3 to 4 minutes. At stops away from the sea (Ankara, Bursa, Gaziantep, Adana, Cappadocia, Konya, Hatay, Safranbolu, Berlin, London, Paris) a train arrives instead; the rules are the same.

1. 8 seconds before it arrives, the horn sounds and a "Ferry docking" countdown appears in the street.
2. When the ferry docks, a crowd fills the street for 25 seconds: during that time all earnings are doubled.
3. 8 customers from the crowd want simit. Each gets a bubble that stays for 6 seconds; every customer you tap pays 20 seconds of income.
4. Serve all 8 and you also get a 60-second bonus: "Nobody had to wait!"

The timer only runs while the game is open; it stops when you leave or when a window is open. A missed ferry has no penalty. No street orders appear during a Ferry Rush.

Street orders and golden simit

• Street orders: about every half minute, a customer in the street stops and shows an order bubble. It stays for 15 seconds; tap it to collect roughly one minute of income.
• Golden simit: every one to two and a half minutes, a shining simit drifts across the screen and stays for 12 seconds. Catch it for a tip worth 5 minutes of income.

New branches, Golden Sesame and the route

Instead of levels, Simit Tycoon has branches. As your businesses earn money in the current branch, Golden Sesame builds up: the sesame you collect is the cube root of what your businesses earned in this branch divided by 20 million. So ₺20 million gives 1 sesame and ₺540 million gives 3. Money from ads, daily rewards, tasks and event gifts does not count.

Once you have at least 3 sesame, you can open a new branch from the Branch tab. Then:

• Your businesses, money and recipes reset.
• The sesame you collected becomes yours; each Golden Sesame permanently adds +2% to all earnings.
• Every new branch also gives a permanent +25%.
• Your awards and sesame stay.

Branches open along a 21-stop route: Istanbul (Kadıköy, Beşiktaş, Galata, Eminönü), Anatolia (Kızılay, Kemeraltı, Bursa, Trabzon, Gaziantep, Adana, Cappadocia, Konya, Hatay, Safranbolu) and the World tour (Berlin, London, Paris, Amsterdam, New York, Dubai, Tokyo). After Tokyo the world tour starts again from Berlin, and every tour adds a star to the branch name. Uncle Rıza's story continues at some of the stops.

Daily reward, tasks, awards and events

• Daily reward: a 7-day streak that grows as 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 45 and 60 minutes of income; day 7 also gives 30 minutes of 2x earnings. Miss a day and the streak starts over.
• Daily tasks: three tasks every day (buy businesses, sell by hand, catch golden simits, deliver orders, serve Ferry Rush customers and so on). Each pays 10 minutes of income; finish all three and 15 minutes of 2x earnings begin.
• Awards: each of the 41 awards gives a permanent +2% to earnings.
• Events: earnings are 1.5 times higher around Republic Day (27 October to 1 November), New Year (20 December to 3 January), Children's Day (20 to 26 April), Ramadan and Eid al-Adha, and 1.25 times higher during the Summer Festival (July and August). Golden simits come more often and you receive a gift worth 30 minutes of income.

Optional ads and the score

Ads are always your choice; the button shows an ad icon and the word "Advertisement":

• 2x Earnings: earnings are doubled for 5 minutes; the time stacks up to 60 minutes.
• 1 hour: gives one hour of income right away; usable every 30 minutes, and you need at least one master.
• Double it: doubles your offline earnings, the daily reward and event gifts.

The game is never interrupted by ads; an ad may only appear when you open a new branch. Your wealth score goes to the leaderboard: it is based on the size of your total earnings (₺1 thousand is 300, ₺1 million is 600, ₺1 billion is 900 points) and it never goes down.

Tips

• Hire Uncle Rıza as early as you can; once you stop tapping, the money flows on its own.
• Pushing one business to its next speed milestone (25, 50, 100...) usually pays more than spreading your money across new businesses.
• When you hear the ferry horn, focus on the street: serving all 8 customers alone is worth several minutes of income.
• Time your expensive purchases with 2x periods (Ferry Rush, the task bonus, day 7).
• Open a new branch when progress clearly slows down; dragging out the early branches wastes time.
• Before you leave, make sure every business has a master.

Common mistakes

• Spreading money one or two units at a time across every business: speed milestones (25, 50, 100...) double earnings, so finishing one business to a milestone pays more.
• Leaving the game with businesses that have no master: a business without a master earns nothing while you are away.
• Letting Ferry Rush bubbles wait: each bubble stays for only 6 seconds, a missed customer never comes back and the bonus is lost.
• Putting off a new branch for too long: the more sesame you have, the longer the next one takes; when progress slows, a new branch speeds everything up.
• Forgetting recipes: each recipe in the Recipes tab triples a business or doubles all earnings, and it is often cheaper than the next business.