Board Game Arena

We are extremely proud to welcome Hanabi, a game by Antoine Bauza, published by Cocktail Games.

Hanabi is a cooperative card game for 2 to 5 players. This game wins the most prestigious award for board games in 2013: the "Spiel Des Jahres". The central mechanism of the card is absolutely original and astonishing: while playing Hanabi you hold your cards... back to front! Consequently all your partners are seeing your cards... and you don't!

The goal of the game is to create a great firework show by playing the fireworks in the right order: from 1 to 5 in each colors. At your turn, you must do one of the following 3 actions:

• play a card from your hand... which looks extremely difficult at the beginning of the game considering you don't see your cards. That's why the second possible action is...
• ... give a hint to another player about his/her cards. You can say for example: "this card is a 2", or "these 2 cards are red". Unfortunately, it costs you 1 of your precious 8 blue token to do this. To get back some blue tokens, you will be forced to sometimes do the third action:
• ... discard a card from your hand. Thus, you can get back a blue token. But be careful: there is a limited number of cards from each type, so you can block the team if you discard the wrong cards...

So, will you manage to create the complete fireworks without doing the fatal 3rd mistake?

Hanabi is an extraordinary game. This is a truly cooperative game, because no player has a complete view of the situation. Consequently everyone has to help each other to win the game. Please note that as Hanabi is a cooperative game, some adaptations has been made to BGA specifically for it (more details).

This adaptation of Hanabi for Board Game Arena has been developed by Cyril Harper (arlequ1) using BGA Studio with the precious help of (beri). A big thank you to them!

BGA would like to send a big thank you to Matthieu, Pascaline and Miguel from Cocktail Games, and also to Antoine Bauza for their help, their feedback and their implication. It was far from obvious to build this adaptation, so it was very precious. Any way you look at it, Hanabi is definitely not a "little game"!


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This game amazes me everytime I play it, especially here with way better players than I. Please make anyone thinking board games are for kids play this gem, it's gonna blow their mind.
A ton of improvements were made over the course of the game dev, and oh boy is the result perfect.
I'm really glad the chat is still available. The BGA community is more than mature enough.
Enough writing, a table awaits...

I don't know the game but I'm really curious to play a coop game here on BGA

Thanks !!!

ok i can say you have 3 white cards or you have two 2 cards...
but i should can say too u have no blue cards, or u have no 4 cards... how can i do in the game to say clue like that?

jotaro wrote:how can i do in the game to say clue like that?

Hi,

Just select a clue type (color or value), then click on the targeted player.

Cheers,

jotaro wrote:ok i can say you have 3 white cards or you have two 2 cards...
but i should can say too u have no blue cards, or u have no 4 cards... how can i do in the game to say clue like that?

According to the rules, you cannot give this kind of clue.

Rule book wrote:IMPORTANT: The player must clearly point to the cards which he is giving information about. (Thus saying "You have zero of something" is not allowed as you cannot point to anything.)

Shivaware wrote:

jotaro wrote:ok i can say you have 3 white cards or you have two 2 cards...
but i should can say too u have no blue cards, or u have no 4 cards... how can i do in the game to say clue like that?

According to the rules, you cannot give this kind of clue.

Rule book wrote:IMPORTANT: The player must clearly point to the cards which he is giving information about. (Thus saying "You have zero of something" is not allowed as you cannot point to anything.)

According to Antoine Bauza, this is allowed. That's why it is allowed on BGA. The publisher of the rulebook made it up .

extremely boring game, a lot like solitaire but blind and in team, oh what a great improvement, NOT, you can devise a mathematical way to win and here it is, it follows like clockwork, a computer could do it and faster, absolutely no strategy, i guess it's great for the family who played Monopoly in 1987 last time.

beri wrote:

Shivaware wrote:

jotaro wrote:ok i can say you have 3 white cards or you have two 2 cards...
but i should can say too u have no blue cards, or u have no 4 cards... how can i do in the game to say clue like that?

According to the rules, you cannot give this kind of clue.

Rule book wrote:IMPORTANT: The player must clearly point to the cards which he is giving information about. (Thus saying "You have zero of something" is not allowed as you cannot point to anything.)

According to Antoine Bauza, this is allowed. That's why it is allowed on BGA. The publisher of the rulebook made it up .

Ah, I didn't know about that. Thanks for the clarification!

Lost me at 'fireworks'.