Okiya
Okiya
Cyril Bouquet
Do not print on both sides
Aim of the game
In order to receive the grace of the emperor you have to be the first to archieve
one of these three winning conditions in the imperial garden:
ӳ A row of 4 characters of your pattern (it can be a vertical, horizontal or
diagonal row);
ӳ A square (2x2) of four characters of your pattern;
ӳ Block your opponent, so that they can’t make a move.
Set up
Shuffle the 16 garden tiles carefully, and randomly put them face up into a square of 4x4.
Take each of your 8 characters, of the same pattern, and stand on either side of the garden.
How to play
In the first game the first player is chosen randomly. In the next games, the first player is always the one
who has lost the previous game.
This first player chooses a tile on the outside border of the garden (that means that the starting player is
not allowed to choose one of the 4 middle tileson the first turn).
They place this tile between the two players, and replace it in the garden with one of their character tokens.
The opponent must now place one of their character tokens in the garden, by replacing a garden tile that
shares an element in common with the tile that was just removed:
- the same vegetation (Maple leaves, Cherry tree, Pine tree or Iris)
or
- the same symbol (Rising sun, Poem, Bird, Rain or Cloud)
They remove the chosen tile, replacing it with one of their character tokens. They place the garden tile
on top of the previously removed tile to cover it and have it visible for all to see. It indicates the new
constraints imposed on the next player.
RULES
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Player 1 tokens + Player 2 tokens
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Player 2 tokens + Tiles part 1
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Cut along the dotted line! Draw as you like!
Warning!
There are 2 types of characters tokens, a type with a background
pattern for Player 1 and a type without a pattern for Player 2.
Tiles part 2
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