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Okiya

Geishas iN THE IMPERIAL GARDENS

Okiya is a placement game featuring eight red and eight black Geisha discs as well as 16 tiles for the Imperial Garden. The garden tiles comprise four sets of four tiles each showing the same plant and one of four different characteristics - Rising Sun, Flag, Birds and Rain.

The garden tiles are shuffled and laid out randomly in a 4x4 grid; each player is given one set of Geisha discs. The starting player chooses one of the border tiles in the grid, takes it and places it open-faced to the side of the table and replaces it with one of his Geishas. This removed tile and all other removed tiles then determine the choice of the tile for the other player's turn: He can only take a tile that shows either the same plant or the same characteristic as the tile previously removed by his opponent, regardless of its position in the grid. You win with a row of four of your Geishas in the garden, the row can be horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Another winning situation is a square of four Geishas anywhere in the grid. The third and last winning situation is blocking your opponent, there is no tile left for him to take according to the rules.

If you want to play several games, you can either play for three won games or award points to the winner for tiles remaining in the garden, the winner of the game is whoever reaches 10 points first.

Small, sophisticated, elegant and very beautiful, featuring images created as a tribute to the Japanese card game of Hanafuda! Okiya offers a well-made version of the x-in-a-row principle, the mechanisms are known, but nicely varied. A new edition from the new company Blue Orange has been announced.

Players: 2

Age: 7+

Time: 10+

Designer: Bruno Cathala

Artist: Cyril Bouquet

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Jactalea 2013

Web: www.jactalea.com

Genre: Row formation

Users: For families

Special: 2 players

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Published under the Jactalea label

Very beautiful design

Very simple rules

You can also play several games for points or a number of games won

Compares to:

Quarto and similar games for victory conditions, Quarto also for tile characteristics

Other editions:

Niya announced from Blue Orange (formerly Jactalea)

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0