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Game Preview: Kobayakawa, or Artsy Bluffing Made Simple

Game Preview: Kobayakawa, or Artsy Bluffing Made Simple
Board Game: Kobayakawa
I'm nearing the end of game previews for titles that will debut at or be (somewhat more widely) available at Spiel 2014, and I realize that yes, I've been focusing a lot on games from Japanese designers and publishers, but by golly I spent an astronomical amount on several shipments of such games earlier in 2014 and with those games now making their way to a larger stage, I'm going to do something with them — namely these videos that I've been publishing!

Jun Sasaki's Kobayakawa from the incredibly stylish publisher Oink Games is a bluffing game stripped of anything extraneous to gameplay — well, other than the fancy metal coins, which are extraneous in their luxeness but necessary for keeping score. At Spiel 2014, French publishers Superlude Éditions and IELLO are releasing new versions of the game in English and French, but the play's the same no matter the tongue you speak, so here we go:

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