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Hanafuda

FLOWER CARDS FROM JAPAN

Hanafuda is a traditional Japanese card game, very similar to the European Rummy. The game originated in the 17^th century, Nintendo started the industrial production of Hanafuda cards in the 19^th century.

A set of Hanafuda cards comprises 48 cards, sorted into 12 groups in analogy to the 12 months of a year – each month is symbolized by a flower and four cards are assigned to each month. Within those groups of four cards the cards have different valences.

With the Edition SOS-Kinderdörfer – Spiele aus aller Welt – an adaption of the game is presented: Players hold cards in their hands and there also is an open display on the table. In your turn you can pick up a card belonging to a month, that you also hold in your hand, and set it down. In case you cannot pick up a card you place a card in the middle and turn up one card. If you now have formed a pair you can take it for your display. When all cards are on display the displays of all players are scored. After 12 rounds the player with the highest total score wins the game. You can also play with including scoring of bonus combinations. In the Koi Koi variant you only score for bonus combinations, single cards are of no value. The game includes a poster with the rank and valence of all cards.

First and foremost, Hanafuda is a very beautiful game! In this adaption of the original you must take time to get acquainted with the cards to learn valences, rank sequence and month allocation of the cards to be able to strive for lucrative bonus combinations, because this is the only interesting way to play this game.

Spieler         : 2-4

Alter            : ages 8 and up

Dauer           : ca. 45 min

Autor           : not stated

Grafik          : Anette Räder

Vertrieb A.   : Heidelberger

Preis            : ca. 15,00 Euro

Verlag          : Grubbe Media 2010

www.grubbemedia.de

Genre                    : Card game

Zielgruppe             : For families

Mechanismen         : Lay out groups of identical cards

Kommentar:

Similar to RUmmy

Very beautiful cards

Poster of all cards / values

Adaption of the Japanese original

Vergleichbar:

Rummy and other card games on collecting sets, Mahjongg for the illustrations on the cards

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