Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
How it plays
How does it play?
Papillons is a card game in which each player has a secret objective: to align four butterflies of a given colour or of a given type.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
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Papillons is a card game in which each player has a secret objective: to align four butterflies of a given colour or of a given type. Players take turns to place a card in the table trying to obtain their secret four-butterflies alignment or to move an already placed card to another place. They also have two tokens which can be used only once; one token removes an already placed card from the game and the other one fixes an already placed card so it cannnot be moved never more during the game. There are versions for 2, 3 and 4 players, and a partnership one for 4 players playing in pairs. The illustrations and graphic designs are by Gérald Guerlais. Papillons is the number 20 in the series "Jeux de poche" by Cocktail Games.