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Shinobi Arts

Ninjas loot the fortress

As a Ninja you try to steal valuables, use Shinobi Arts - the art of the Ninjas - and cooperate with partners and with your Clan. Items have different values and change their value in the presence of other items.

Each round is prepared with partner cards, Shinobi Art cards, Allegiance cards and a line-up of item cards. In your turn you have seven options for actions; three of those actions are the so called Main actions, and you must choose and implement one of them: Steal an item card or Attack another player – for both you use Shinobi Arts cards; an attack is easily staved off by simply playing a defense symbol – or Investigation, you look at one of the remaining item cards in the display. A shinobi can only carry one item!

Then you can use one of the free actions – Use a Shinobi Arts card effect or reveal your partner and use his ability or leave the clan – The partner you leave is still considered to be a team member and would receive two honor points should he win. You can also pass and leave the premises, even without an item. When, depending on the number of players, two or three players have left the premises, each other player has one more turn and then all reveal their items, use their special abilities and win the round with the most valuable item. You score two points when you win alone or one point per team member. The winner is starting player of the next round. You win the game instantly with three honor points.

A card collecting game exclusively for specialists in Japanese Games and fans of Seiji Kanai and his games; there is currently only an Japanese edition and a list of card texts on BGG.

Players: 3-5

Age: 10+

Time: 20+

Designer: Seiji Kanai

Artist: Namako, Ebi, Sakura Naoki, Kasai Yuya

Price: ca. 13 Euro

Publisher: QBIST / MinimalGames 2015

Web: http://japonbrand.myshopify.com/

Genre: Card collecting

Users: With friends

Version: jp

Rules: de en fr jp

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Japanese edition only

Card texts and rules in English, French and German on BGG

For specialists only

Compares to:

Collecting games with cards of changing values

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0