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Floris

Flowers for the countess

The countess invites us to a Flower Dance; as guests, we want to bring big bouquets for sympathy points.

45 flower cards show between one and three flowers in five varieties, mixed or only one kind. A market is laid out with five cards, arranged like a Five on a die, the rest is draw pile.

The active player takes one or two cards from the market, either one card from the middle or two adjacent ones from the sides. As an alternative, you can take one or two cards from the personal display of one and only one player. Then you put cards that you do not want to add to your hand into your personal display on the table. Cards in hand can never be put back on the table, but you can pick up cards from the table for your hand at any time. When you can make up a bouquet from all cards in your hand, you set it aside for points, or keep them and go on collecting. You can also make up a bouquet from some of your cards in hand, but must place the remaining ones onto your personal garbage pile.

A bouquet must have minimum five flowers, either only flowers of a kind or the same number of flowers of each kind or at least three kinds in different, ascending numbers. When you cannot replenish the market at the end of your turn, each flower in your bouquets gives you one point; nine or more flowers in a bouquet score bonus points. Flowers on cards on the garbage pile or in hand score one negative point each.

Pretty, easy, nice for a filler - and yet you need some tactic and should keep an eye on your fellow players and what they take from the market to avoid making too god an offer to them in your own display.

Players: 2-4

Age: 9+

Time: 30+

Designer: Andrea Boennen

Artist: Isabel Zettwitz

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Qango Verlag 2016

Web: www.qango.de

Genre: Cards, set collecting

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Simple mechanisms with some tactics

Good family game

Nice for a filler or for beginners

Compares to:

All set collecting games with cards

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 1

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0