In ナナトリドリ (pronounced "Nanatoridori"), you are a guide at a castle where a bird party has just concluded, and now you are helping the birds return home, the "birds" being cards in your hand.
From a deck of 63 cards, with nine copies each of the numbers 1-7, players get a hand of cards that they cannot rearrange. The starting player leads a card or set of cards with the same value- but they can play multiple cards only if the cards are adjacent to one another in their hand. If cards have been played on the table, to play you must play the same number of cards with a higher value or a larger set of cards, e.g., 2 < 5 < 3,3 < 6,6 < 2,2,2 < 1,1,1,1. When you overplay someone, you can pick up the cards you beat and add them to your hand wherever you wish or you can discard them.
If you cannot or choose not to play, you must pass, drawing a card from the remaining cards in the deck, then either adding it to your hand wherever you wish or discarding it.
If all but one player pass, clear the table, with the player who last played leading to an empty table. When all but one person has emptied their hand, the last player loses one of their two lives. When a player loses their second life, the game ends, and everyone else wins.
Easy, fast, beautiful; original and interesting: what else can you expect from a trick-taking game? Click the link below to discover:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=nanatoridori
Note that the game includes a special 2 players mode that will give you a totally different feel for the game.
We would love to thank Arclight Games - Ateam and the game designer Toshiki Arao with the wonderful artwork provided by Kotori Neiko. The game has been brought to it's digital life by dahrf and BoucleMed, and we would love to send them our warmest chrips for this.
That's it for this Monday!
Have an excellent week, Essen Spiel convention is only a bit more than a week now.
See you there and until then...
Take care and play fair!
