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Colors of Kasane

12 layers of cloth for a kimono

At the Emperor’s festivities all guests wear different kimonos and there is a reward for the most elegant Juniitoe, a Kimono with 12 different layers of cloth.

The game comprises 52 kimono cards, 5x values 1-9 and 7 cards of value +1, plus nine cards showing combinations, called melds, for instance „lay down 1, 2 and 6 in any order“. Depending on the number of players a display of 16 or 16 kimono cards is prepared. In your turn you must take a card and can lay out a meld.

To take a card you pick up the front card of one row in the display and put it to the front/on the top of your hand. You may not chance the order of cards in your hand. If you take +1, you score one point instantly and also take up the card. If you can form a combination with the card you did just pick up, you lay this meld out - the cards in it must come from your hand in unchanged order und are laid out in the same order. You mark the number of cards used for the meld on the meld card and mark your points. You cannot form a meld twice with the same number of cards, but only with a different number of cards, if nobody else did claim this before you. When there are only three or four cards left in the display the round ends and a new display is prepared for the next round. After three or four rounds you score also for the number of colors laid out in your cards and you win with most points.

A set collecting game with unusual rules for detail mechanisms; in hand and your display the right-most card is important and in your display you can use it again in a new meld. An attractive, well-working game, especially for friends of Japanese games.

Players: 3-4

Age: 10+

Time: 30+

Designer: Hinata Origuchi

Artist: Hunaoka

Price: ca. 14 Euro

Publisher: Ouyuuan / Japon Brand 2014

Web: www.japonbrand.com

Genre: Set collecting and placing

Users: With friends

Version: en

Rules: de en jp

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Unusual mechanism for details

Attractive design

For three and four players only

Nice example for Japanese games

Compares to:

Bohnanza for non-sorting of cards, otherwise set collecting games

Other editions:

Japanese edition

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 3

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