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Sakura Hunt

Admiring cherry blossoms

Hanami - Time of admirations of Sakura, Blossoming of Cherries in Japan; we visit four Hanami locations and aim for a panorama view of Sakura by displaying ten cards in a row.

Four Hanami Spots are laid out; scenic and drinks cards are shuffled, and you receive six cards and a color marker. One Hanami marker per color sits next to each Hanami spot. In your turn, you can progress the blooming, scout a spot or do Hanami. For Progressing the Blooming, you place a card from hand at a Spot - a spot can take up to six cards - and draw a card. For Spot Scouting you swap a card from hand with a card at a Spot. You can do Hanami once at each Spot - you form a set of three cards, either identical or with ascending numbers, using two cards from your hand and one card from a spot. The Set is displayed, you fill the gap at the spot with your Hanami Marker there and draw a card. You score points for Hanami according to the number of cards at the Spot before taking the card; four cards are the optimum number for full Sakura and score most points; it is irrelevant which card you take.

When all spots are completely filled or if all players did Hanami at all Spots, you score bonuses for a row of cards in ascending order of numbers and for sets of three identical cards. Drinks cards can be used for the row, but do not count towards scoring - a row of 9 numbers, with a drinks card replacing one number, scores the bonus for eight cards in a row.

Simply beautiful, beautifully simple! A very attractive design and simple rules result in a felicitous version of set collecting, in which the “when” of a set is more important than “which set”!

Players: 2-4

Age: 9+

Time: 30+

Designer: Yu Maruno

Artist: Yu Maruno

Price: ca. 16 Euro

Publisher: Juname Studio / Japon Brand 2017

Web: www.japonbrand.com

Genre: Set collecting

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: en jp + de fr

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Comments:

Very beautiful

Simple rules

Nice filler game or for beginners

Compares to:

Set collecting games in general

Other editions:

Currently none

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