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Kikkasai

Roll dice to grow flowers

Every year, there is a chrysanthemum competition, players try to make flowers grow in the most favored colors by combining three dice results. You have screen, and dice in relation to the number of players are put into the bag - 5/7/10 Chrysanthemum dice in white, orange and yellow plus 2/3/4 black dice, for 2/3/4 players. The starting players draws one random die, rolls it and thus determines the trend of the round, for a black die he names a color. Then all draw two dice each from the bag and roll them behind their screens.

Then the active player draws a die, rolls it openly and then has one of three actions: Swap the dice for one behind the screen or discard the newly drawn die or announce a flower: Three dice in one color or three dice in three distinct colors, either showing three consecutive numbers or three identical numbers. The same color or the same number score you one point, each correlation to the trend scores one point extra, maximum six points. With announcing of a flower or when the last die is drawn, the round ends and all dice go back into the bag. Another player can announce a flower using the discarded die of the active player. Black dice are wild dice or are used to mark scores, in this case they stay on the table. If you reach a score of six, you win, or if you have most points, when all were starting player twice.

Due to the forming of triplets and the drawing and using or discarding of a die as well as the chance to use a discarded die have caused the game to be likened to Mahjong; for me it is too simple for that, it is a nice, chance-driven filler game with simple rules.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 15+

Designer: Takahiro Shinozaki

Artist: Kotori Neiko

Price: ca. 15 Euro

Publisher: Shinojo / Japon Brand 2017

Web: www.japonbrand.com

Genre: Dice, sets

Users: For families

Version: jp

Rules: de en fr jp

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very simple rules

Rules but the score marking are well worded

Nice filler game

Compares to:

Set formation games

Other editions:

Shinojo (de en fr jp)

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0