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Game Preview: SPIEL 2016 — Hanamikoji, or Give It Away, Give It Away, Give It Away Now

Game Preview: SPIEL 2016 — Hanamikoji, or Give It Away, Give It Away, Give It Away Now
Board Game: Hanamikoji
For my final pre-SPIEL 2016 preview, let's check out the two-player game Hanamikoji from Kota Nakayama, first released by Japanese publisher Takamagahara in 2013 as 21 Flowers (with the cards depicting, yes, flowers) and now out in Chinese, Japanese and English from EmperorS4 Games with players competing to win the most favors from geishas or hire geishas or compete for dominance in the geisha mindspace. I'm not exactly sure of the setting, but the gloriously colorful art makes me not exactly care.

I don't normally opine much in these preview videos, but in this case I'll tell you that this game is incredibly good at what it is: a quick-playing card game of tug-of-war in which you need to somehow trick the opponent into taking exactly what you want them to take — or else know how to recover when the dirty dog does you wrong....

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