Kamisado
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| Game data | |
| author | Peter Burley |
| publishing company | HUCH! & friends |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| Art | Board game |
| Teammates | 2 |
| Duration | about 20 minutes |
| Age | from 10 years on
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Kamisado is a 2009 in HUCH! & friends- Verlag abstract board game by Peter Burley for two players. On March 24, 2016, the official digital version of Kamisado was released as an iOS and Android app.
content
- 1 game board
- 8 black and 8 white kite towers
- 22 dragon tooth markers
Game flow
The game is played on a chessboard-like playing field with 64 fields, which are marked in eight different colors according to a specific pattern. Each of the two players, black and white, has eight pieces, which are designed as a dragon tower and each of which has one of the eight colors of the game board. At the beginning each player positions his playing pieces on a base side of the square playing field, the colored markings of the playing pieces corresponding to those of the fields.
For a move, each player can move one of his pawns either forward or diagonally without jumping over other pawns. The color of the playing field on which a move ends determines the color of the opposing playing figure with which he must make his next move. The black player begins by choosing any of his eight pieces and moving them forward or diagonally. The winner is the player who was the first to move one of his pawns onto a space on the opposing baseline.
A kamisado game can also be played over several games. For this purpose, after each game, the pawn that has reached the opponent's base line is marked with a so-called dragon tooth. Playing figures with one or more dragon teeth have additional rights in subsequent games and are called sumos . Under certain conditions you can push back opposing pawns with a “sumo push”. Sumo figures score points, the number of points depending on the number of dragon teeth they are awarded with. The Kamisado game ends when a player reaches a predetermined number of points. Variants with 3, 7 and 15 necessary points are described in the instructions.
Awards
- 2009: International Gamers Award : nominated
- 2010: Game of the Year : Recommended List
- 2010: German Educational Game Award: nominated
Web links
- Kamisado in the game database BoardGameGeek (English)
- Kamisado in the Luding games database
- Play kamisado online
- Unofficial computer game variant "Aikisado" (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ HUCH! & friends, instructions in German , (PDF; 8.0 MB)
- ↑ HUCH! & friends, press release on the recommendation as Game of the Year 2010 ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 246 kB)
- ↑ Kamisado in the database of the Spiel des Jahres eV, accessed on May 6, 2019.
- ↑ Nominated for the German Learning Game Award 2010 ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
