Belly Stuffing Game Guide: Seven Banquets — Win the Victory Chair

The seven banquets

In Seven Banquets, each course lasts about nine seconds: dates and cream, roast lamb, saffron pilaf, baklava, honeyed figs, sesame bread and the grand cake. A gold coin swings back and forth along an arc. Tap, or press Space or Enter, while it is in the gold band for a victory bite. The wider amber band gives a smaller bite, and anywhere else is a miss.

The coin and the bands

The game tightens every course. The coin starts at a swing of 1.8 seconds and shortens by a tenth of a second per banquet. The gold band starts wide and narrows, and the amber band shrinks too. So the first banquets are for learning the rhythm, and the last ones ask you to hold it.

What a bite is worth

A victory bite is worth 9, 11, 13, 17, 20, 18 and 16 pounds in the seven banquets. The amber bite is a third of that. Banquet five is the best of all, so it is the one to focus on, and the last two give a little less so a late comeback is harder.

Lady Zafira

Zafira is a fast eater: she gains from 26 to 74 pounds per banquet, and takes more, faster and bigger bites every course, with some variation each time. If you play lazily she wins. She is gracious, though, and a rematch is one tap away, so a lost duel is a good place to learn the rhythm.

Tips for winning

Do not tap on every swing. Wait for the coin to come into the gold band and tap once; a miss gives you a pause while Roxxana chews, which costs you swings. Find the rhythm in the early banquets, since the speed increases slowly enough to follow. Watch the coin and not the picture, because she grows after each banquet regardless.

When the seventh banquet ends, the heavier of the two takes the victory chair. Your best result is saved in the browser, along with how many duels you have won. The whole story, with Nima and the full court, is in Roxxana's film.