Ohanami

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Ohanami
Game data
author Steffen Benndorf
graphic Christian Opperer
publishing company Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag (NSV),
White Goblin Games
Publishing year 2019
Art Card game
Teammates 2 to 4
Duration about 20 minutes
Age from 8 years

Ohanami is a card game by Steffen Benndorf that was published by Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag in 2019 and also by White Goblin Games . The game can be played with two to four players. The players try to lay out up to three Japanese gardens and get as many points as possible. In terms of game mechanics, the author combines a simple drafting mechanism with a classic card display.

The game was named after the Japanese cherry blossom festival, the O-Hanami .

Style of play

The game of Ohanami is played by two to four players. The players' task is to form up to three rows of cards with different motifs in the correct sequence of numbers and to get as many points as possible with them. It is a fast and simple game that uses what is called a drafting mechanism similar to that used in Sushi Go! and other games works, and combines this with a card display. In addition to the instructions, the game material consists of 120 cards and a scoring pad for accounting.

Game flow

The game is played over three rounds. To prepare for the game, the cards are shuffled and each player receives 10 cards as a hand, the remaining cards are laid out for the next rounds. The scoring pad and a pen are also placed on the gaming table.

The players play at the same time and have to choose two cards from their hand in each round and place them face down in front of them. The players pass the remaining cards on to their neighbors, passing them clockwise in the first and third round and counterclockwise in the second round. Then the players reveal the two selected cards and can start new rows of cards or gardens with them or add them to existing rows of cards. Each player can start a maximum of three gardens. He is free to decide whether to use both cards, only one or none at all; the unused cards are discarded. Any card may be used to start a row of cards, but to lay out the cards must always be either lower than the previously lowest or higher than the previously highest card. The creation takes place accordingly both upwards and downwards.

After laying out, all players choose two cards from their current hand, pass the remaining cards on and place the newly laid out cards according to the rules. This is played over five rounds with two cards each until all cards are either laid out or discarded.

After the end of a round there is an interim ranking. After the first round, only cards with blue motifs are scored with three points each. After the second round, all cards with a blue and green motif are scored, with blue cards earning three points and green cards four points. The previous rows of cards remain at the end of a round and 10 new cards are dealt for each of the next rounds.

The game ends after the third round and all cards are scored in the final scoring. Again, blue cards are worth three points each and green cards are worth four points each. There are also points for pink cards, which result from the sum formula of the number: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ...; one card gives 1 point, 2 cards 3 points, three cards 6 points, etc. The winner of the game is the player who has the most points after the third round. In the event of a tie, the number of pink cards decides who won the game.

Expenses and reception

The card game Ohanami was developed by Steffen Benndorf and published in January 2019 as a new release for the Nuremberg Toy Fair by Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag (NSV) in German and in parallel by White Goblin Games in Dutch. The card and game design comes from the illustrator Christian Opperer .

The game was named after the Japanese cherry blossom festival, the O-Hanami .

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Official rules of the game for Ohanami , NSV 2018
  2. ↑ Versions of Ohanami in the BoardGameGeek database; accessed on March 13, 2019.

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