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2017 Ranked #15,627

Niwa

An abstract racing game has players advance figurines through a Japanese garden and reach the opponent’s temple first. Moving consumes colored beads that must be passed between figures, so each step changes the options available to the whole team.

Abstract Abstract Strategy Point to Point Movement Players: Two-Player Only Games

Players

2

Play time

10-20 min

Age

7+

Complexity

1.75/5

Rating

6.70

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.1/5

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?

You are in a Japanese garden. Like the Japanese masters, the players make strategic moves to reach their opponent's camp.

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You are in a Japanese garden. Like the Japanese masters, the players make strategic moves to reach their opponent's camp. There's lot of strategy in this game where you advance step by step. To win the game, you must be the first to reach the opponent's temple with one of your three "kokeshi" figurine. At the begining, each figurine have 2 beads. The bead of the top of each figure allows him to cross a line of the same color ... In your turn, you can: -move one of your figurines and pass to an other figurine the beads you used, one by one -just pass a bead from the top of a figurine to another figurine -make jump one of you figurine up another if its has no bead on it!

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Play and group

Players
2
Best with
2
Play time
10–20 min
Age
7+
Complexity
1.8/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

2
Wilfried Fort Marie Fort

Artists

1
Regis Lejonc

Publishers

1
Djeco

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