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Hanabi

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Players are pyrotechnics who should assemble one fireworks each in five colors from cards with numbers 1-5 in ascending order. You hold 4 or 5 cards in a way that you yourself see the backside and your fellow players the front side. 8 blue chips are placed into the tin lid, 3 red chips onto the table. In your turn you can either give information or discard a card or play a card. If you give information, you choose a player and tell him one color or one number in his cards, pointing to the respective card or cards, and place a blue chip from the box lid onto the table. If no chip is in the lid you cannot give information. If you discard a card you draw a new one from stock and put a blue chip back into the lid. If you play a card this card must either continue one of the fireworks already on the table or start a new one, only one of each color is allowed. For a mistake you take a red chip. If you complete a fireworks with card 5 you put a blue chip back into the lid. When the 3^rd red chip is taken, all players have lost together. When all fireworks are completed before the draw pile is empty all have won together with a score of 25 points. When the last card is drawn from stock each player has one more turn and then you add the value of the highest card in each of the fireworks for the score of the game.

Hanabi is a very unusual und very interesting game; you need to consider each action very carefully, chips are scarce and a mistake is quickly made. It is better to discard a card unused than play the wrong one and take the 3^rd red chip! Antoine Bauza is turning out to be a surety for fascinating game ideas!

Players: 2-5

Age: 8+

Time: 25+

Designer: Antoine Bauza

Artist: Albertine Ralenti

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Cocktail Games 2011

Web: www.cocktailgames.com

Genre: Cooperative card game

Users: For families

Version: fr

Rules: fr

In-game text: no

Comments:

Nice topic

Practical tin box

Very unusual and very well working variation of cooperative play

Compares to:

Basically all cooperative, first game with this combination of mechanisms

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 3

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0