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Kabuki

Japanese Theater masks

You hand masks to actors in a Japanese theater production and should not give the same mask to an actor twice. The game features 50 Mask cards which are shuffled and then stacked face down; depending on the number of players you receive four or five victory point markers.

Then you lay out the for Actor cards around the Mask stack to begin four Actor stacks.

Then you play the first of three rounds. In your turn you draw the top card from the Mask card stack, show it to all players and then place it openly on top of one of the four Actor stacks. If someone believes that there is another of the cards that was just placed already present in the stack, he says “stop” and the stack where the last card was placed is checked.

If the doubting player is correct, the active player loses one victory point marker to the doubter for each card in the stack that corresponds to the top card. If there is no such card in the stack a second time, the doubter loses a victory point marker to the bank. Other correlations in the stack among cards other than the top one are ignored, as they were not noticed and doubted at the time when a card was placed. When the masks are used up or someone is out of victory points, the round ends and all note their victory points. Then you prepare a new round. After three rounds you win with most victory points.

An unusual memo game – the masks are color cards, but only at first glance; at second glance you find different faces of a color. Each face, to be exact, is present five times and there are ten different faces! A good visual memory and being able to count cards that are played is a great advantage!

Players: 2-6

Age: 6+

Time: 20+

Designer: Hope S. Hwang

Artist: Naïade

Price: 13 Euro

Publisher: Iello 2015

Web: www.heidelbaer.de

Genre: Memory, reaction

Users: For families

Version: en

Rules: en fr kr

In-game text: no

Comments:

Neu edition of Illusion, Deinko, 2011

Series Mini Games

Easy rules

Nice filler game

Compares to:

All memo games

Other editions:

Iello (fr), Deinko (kr)

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 3

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0