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2021 Ranked #17,221

Kobito

A rainbow-building card game where players complete rainbows to claim pots of gold and score the most points. Personal preparation areas can prevent helping rivals, but require extra cards and impose penalties when a plan stalls.

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Players

2-6

Play time

20-30 min

Age

8+

Complexity

?/5

Rating

6.78

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Kobito is all about creating rainbows to win the pots of gold at the end of those rainbows, all the while being helped by ‘kobito’ figures (leprechauns/gnomes). Each pot of gold contains a certain number of points.

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Kobito is all about creating rainbows to win the pots of gold at the end of those rainbows, all the while being helped by ‘kobito’ figures (leprechauns/gnomes). Each pot of gold contains a certain number of points. But only the player who finishes the rainbow gets the gold. To try and avoid helping others, each player also has their own personal studio in which they can prepare rainbows before sending them to a pot of gold. This comes with risks however, because each personal rainbow makes you play more cards – and if you can’t, you get a penalty! The game ends when all but two pots of gold have been won. Players add up the points won from the pots of gold and deduct any penalties they might have received, the player with the higest score wins.

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Game and edition data

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Play and group

Players
2–6
Best with
2
Play time
20–30 min
Age
8+
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Robert Brouwer

Artists

1
James Churchill

Publishers

1
Jolly Dutch Productions

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