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Fruit Friends

White or yellow peaches?

Cards for fruits - apples, grapes, kiwis, bananas, oranges, melons, yellow and white peaches shoe the fruit, the points you score for sets of that fruit, and the total number of cards for the fruit. Starting cards for apple, grape, kiwi as well as yellow and white peach are marked with S.

Your are dealt a start card for a fruit openly and also seven fruit cards for your hand. You form three face-down pairs from your cards and discard the surplus card. Then the starting player of the round reveals his pairs - the two players next to him in turn order select one pair each and he himself takes the remaining pair. This is repeated for all players in turn order. Round 1 and 2 are played in clockwise direction, round 3 is played counter-clockwise. At the end of round 1, every player has six open cards on the table. After two more such rounds, every player has 18 cards on the table plus his open-faced starting card. Then each player scores each type of fruit separately for points in relation to the number of cards per type. If you have both types of peach in your display, you can only select one of them to score. There are special scoring rules for melons and oranges in relation to other fruit types: Oranges score 1 point each for each of your apples, maximum four points per orange. Melons score 1 point each for each of your grapes, also maximum four points per melon.

In variants, you take cards out of play in case of three players, or only score melons or oranges or are dealt eight cards in round one and keep one face-down for scoring.

A very nice set-collecting game with clever scoring details, ideal for beginners or a filler game.

Players: 2-5

Age: 8/14+

Time: 15+

Designer: Takaaki Sayama, Toshiki Arao

Artist: Takaaki Sayama

Price: ca. 14 Euro

Publisher: Comet / Japon Brand 2018

Web: http://cometgame.jimdo.com

Genre: Set collecting

Users: For families

Version: jp

Rules: de en fr jp

In-game text: no

Comments:

Nice family game

Good for beginners or a filler

Minimum age stated in rules 14+, on box 8+

(c) image 104ki (BGG)

Compares to:

Set collecting games in general

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

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Memory (orange): 0

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Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

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