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Hanabi

Everyone can see your cards but you. Can their clues help you find out what to play?

Credits: Jarrod Moore

Source documentBoardGameGeek

Contents

  • Remove the rainbow suit cards from the deck:
    • You can include it, just it's a more advanced variant of the game
  • Shuffle the remaining cards to form the game deck
  • Deal 4 cards face-down to each player
  • 2-3P: Deal 5 cards face-down to each player
  • Each player hold cards face-out so that they cannot see their values
  • Place 8 blue tokens face up on the table
  • Stack 4 fuse tokens such that the longest fuse token is on the top and the explosion is on the bottom

The game takes place over a series of turns where players can perform one of three actions:

  • Give a Piece of Information
  • Discard a Card
  • Play a Card

The game ends when one of three things happens:

  • If the explosion fuse token is revealed
  • If all five fireworks are made before the deck runs out
  • If a player takes the last card in the deck, they complete that turn, and then each player then gets one more turn, after which the game ends

The final score is the sum of the highest value card placed for each firework

Your final ranking is then:

Final ScoreRanking
0-5Horrible
6-10Mediocre
11-15Honourable attempt
16-20Excellent
21-24Amazing
25Legendary