About this game
Every watch collector knows the ritual: you cannot simply walk into a boutique and buy the steel sports watch everyone wants. First you buy the pieces nobody wants — the quartz dress watch, the shelf sitters — to build your “purchase history”. In the West it's called bundling, or simply the AD game. Hong Kong collectors have a sharper phrase: sik gwat(食骨), “eating bones” — swallow enough bones and you earn the meat. That phrase gave this game its name. Three levels, three boutiques, one hot piece each.
Each level gives you limited cash and limited days. Bundle the shelf sitters at retail to build your journey — but flip them too fast and the history vanishes, because the sales associate notices. Hunt the grey-market listings for bargains (and dodge the fakes), list your pieces and wait for buyers to make offers, and when the boutique finally calls with an allocation, you have one day to say yes. Land the hot piece and the level is cleared — it goes into your trophy cabinet, never to be sold.
All brands in the game are parodies — Rolodex, Apple Piguet, Pasta Phillpe — and all prices are fictional. The behaviour they satirise is, of course, entirely real.
Built by the collector behind @gptwatchcollector, where the real collection — haute horlogerie, independents and complications — lives. Bone Eater is one of six free games on Watch Energy, alongside the Watch Knowledge Quiz, Watch Smash, the Destiny Watch match, the Watch Bracket and the Watch Tier List.