Seikatsu

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Seikatsu
Game data
author Matt Loomis , Isaac Shalev
graphic Peter Wocken
publishing company IDW Games, HUCH!
Publishing year 2017
Art Board game
Teammates 1-4
Duration up to 30 minutes
Age from 10 years on

Awards

Seikatsu is a strategic board and placement game by game designers Matt Loomis and Isaac Shalev . It is designed for three players, but can also be played in a solo version as well as with two and four players. The game was published in 2017 by the German game publisher HUCH! . Thematically, the players try to create what they consider to be the most beautiful flower garden with the most impressive flocks of birds.

Theme and equipment

The game is a strategic board and placement game in which the players use their garden tiles tactically to lay out what they consider to be the most beautiful flower garden and the most impressive flocks of birds.

In addition to the instructions, the game material consists of:

Style of play

Game preparation

To prepare for the game, the game board is placed in the middle of the table. With two or three players, each player should sit in front of a colored player area. Each player chooses his scoring marker color and places it at the start of the scoring track. All garden tiles are placed in the cloth bag and mixed well, then a player draws either two (if playing with two players) or three tiles from the bag and places them on the corresponding flower fields on the game board. Then the Koi plates are placed in the bag and they are all mixed well. Each player draws two tiles and puts them face down in hand.

Game with two or three players

Steps per turn
  • Play tiles
  • Evaluate flock of birds
  • Draw the plate

Starting with a starting player, the players come clockwise to their turn and perform three actions per turn. At the beginning of their turn, the players place one of the two tiles from their hand on an empty space on the game board, whereby they must always place it next to at least one tile that is already on the board. Whenever you put down a bird that is identical to one or more neighboring birds, you can score a flock of birds. They each receive one victory point for the tile they have just placed and one additional victory point for each matching bird on a directly adjacent tile. If a player plays a Koi tile, he can use it once as a joker for any bird of his choice and evaluate it. Koi tiles that are already on display are not counted as jokers or birds. At the end of the turn the player draws a tile and passes the cloth bag on to his left neighbor.

four tiles gives 10 points, triangular number

The game ends when the last garden tile has been placed, i.e. after 17 rounds in a game with two players and after 11 rounds in a game with three players. When all tiles are leveled, the gardens are scored according to the flower wreaths. The most common flowers in the individual rows of gardens are counted from the players' point of view from the pagoda and added and evaluated as a sum formula ; the Koi ponds in the row can be counted as any type of flower by each player. The players receive one point for a tile with identical flowers in a row, three points for two tiles, six points for three tiles, ten points for four tiles, 15 points for five tiles and 21 points for six tiles. The points of the rows are counted with the scoring marker and the winner is the player with the most points after the final scoring.

Four player game

In a game with four players, two players each play as a team against the other team. Each team chooses a pagoda, the players of a team should sit opposite each other. Instead of just two starting tiles, four starting tiles are laid out at the beginning (on two flower fields and the fields opposite each other). The game itself is played according to the rules of the basic game, whereby the players on a team are not allowed to show each other their tiles or talk about them. The rating corresponds to a game with two players.

Tournament rules

In the tournament rules, if there are three or four players, each player gets a koi pond at the beginning. When playing with two players, each player receives two Koi tiles. In the game, the player can play his Koi pond at any time.

Solo play

In the solo game, the player plays alone against a fictional opponent and plays his tiles from the perspective of a pagoda. He can choose between three variants:

  • Easy: flocks of birds are scored for the player
  • Medium: there is no evaluation of the flocks of birds
  • Difficult: flocks of birds are scored for the game

The game is prepared like a game for three players with three starting tiles, whereby the three tiles should be different. The player receives all Koi tiles and can choose in each turn whether he plays a garden tile from his hand or one of the four Koi tiles on the last tile placed. Then the flocks of birds are scored according to the variant chosen. As soon as the player can no longer make a valid move, i.e. can no longer place a tile next to the last tile placed, the game ends and the player first evaluates his pagoda and then the other two pagodas. He wins the game if he has more points than the sum of the two opposing pagodas.

Development and reception

The game Seikatsu was developed by the game authors Matt Loomis and Isaac Shalev and published in 2017 by IDW Games in an English version for the International Game Days in Essen. In 2018 the German publisher HUCH! the game in a multilingual version in German, French and Dutch.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Game instructions Seikatsu on the HUCH website! / Hutter Trade; accessed on April 7, 2018.
  2. ↑ Versions of Seikatsu in the board game database BoardGameGeek (English); accessed on December 8, 2017.

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