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Kobayakawa

Clash of Samurai Clans

In the clash of Samurai clans fighting for supremacy Kobayakawa Clan will ally itself with the weakest faction. The game comprises 15 cards of values 1 to 15 and 32 coins, called kamons. Each player starts the game with four kamons, eight kamons are stacked as general stock.

You play in rounds. Cards are shuffled and each player is dealt one card. Then you turn over one card for Kobayakawa, the rest is stacked face down. Then - in the drawing phase of the round - each player in turn draws one card, once, and then discards one of his now two cards, openly in front of himself. Or you can draw a card from the pile and lay it down as the new Kobayakawa card. Then - in the fighting phase of the round - you can decide to pass for the round or to fight and bid one kamon. All fighting players then reveal their card, the player holding the lowest value adds the value of the Kobayakawa card to the value of his card. The winner with the highest value receives all kamons that were bid plus the kamon of the round, next to the Kobayakawa. In case of a tie the winner is the player nearest to the starting player. The winner of the round becomes the new starting player. If you run out of kamons you must quit the game. When there are only two kamons left in general stock, the last round, round #7, begins. In this round you must bid 2 kamons if you want to fight, unless you have only one kamon left, then you can bid this and fight, too. After this final round you win with most kamons.

A very unusual but yet nice family game with a fixed bid, offering a challenging mix of risk, bluff and card distribution assessment.

Players: 3-6

Age: 9+

Time: 15+

Designer: Jun Sasaki

Artist: Biboun, Origames

Price: ca. 15 Euro

Publisher: Superlude / Iello 2014

Web: www.heidelbaer.de

Genre: Card, bluff

Users: For families

Version: en

Rules: en jp

In-game text: no

Comments:

Minimalistic components

Challenging mix of bluff, risk and assessing card values

Very fast game

Compares to:

First game of its kind

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

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Memory (orange): 0

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Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0