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HAWAIIAN HANAFUDA (SAKURA)

Goal

Score the most points over the course of 4 rounds by capturing cards of the same suit and bonus point card combos.

Cards

There are 48 cards in the deck, consisting of 12 suits. The 12 suits correspond to the months of the year (January, February, etc) and a plant.

There are 4 cards per suit. Card types include Brights, Banners, Animals and Junk. Card values are described below.

Gameplay

On your turn, play one card from your hand onto the playing field. If it matches suit with:

• 1 CARD, capture that card and move both cards to your scoring area
• 2 CARDS in the playing field, pick one to capture
• 3 CARDS in the playing field, capture all the cards. Alternately, if you have 3 cards of the same suit in your hand and you match suit with the final card in the playing field, all cards of that suit are captured. Capturing all the cards of a suit in a single turn is called a HIKI.
• DOESN'T MATCH SUIT WITH ANY CARDS? Leave your card in the playing field. Maybe you can capture it later.
• If your card matches suit with 1 or more cards in the playing field, you must capture a card. It's not optional.

Next, the top card of the draw deck is flipped up to see if it matches suit with any cards in the playing field. If so, follow the rules above.

Round End

The round ends when all players have played all the cards in their hand.

• If you played a hiki, you may run out of cards before the other players. In that case, on your turn you will only flip up the top card of the draw deck.

Whoever has the highest score at the end of the round becomes start player for the next round.

Game End

At the end of 4 rounds, whoever scored the most points wins! In case of a tie, the dealer wins, or whoever is closest to the dealer on their right.

Card Values

BRIGHTS - 20 pts (The 4 bright cards are: crane, curtain, moon and yellow pawlonia)

BANNERS - 10 pts

ANIMALS - 5 pts (the rain, cup, bridge and butterfly cards are considered animal cards)

JUNK - 0 pts

Wildcard

The lightning card can be used to capture any card in the playing field if played from the hand or flipped up from the deck.

The wildcard cannot be used to capture a hiki.

Bonus Point Combos (Yaku)

When you capture all the cards in a yaku, you gain 50 points and your opponents lose 50 points.

An in-game yaku list is provided.