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    Ikebana is a card game where players compete to make bouquets of 5 cards to score the most prestige points. On a turn, a player can either draw a card or buy a discarded card from another player. Cards in bouquets score points for combinations like pairs, runs, and having multiple colors. The player with the most points after 4 rounds wins.

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    Ikebana is a card game where players compete to make bouquets of 5 cards to score the most prestige points. On a turn, a player can either draw a card or buy a discarded card from another player. Cards in bouquets score points for combinations like pairs, runs, and having multiple colors. The player with the most points after 4 rounds wins.

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    Ikebana is a card game where players compete to make bouquets of 5 cards to score the most prestige points. On a turn, a player can either draw a card or buy a discarded card from another player. Cards in bouquets score points for combinations like pairs, runs, and having multiple colors. The player with the most points after 4 rounds wins.

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    Ikebana is a card game where players compete to make bouquets of 5 cards to score the most prestige points. On a turn, a player can either draw a card or buy a discarded card from another player. Cards in bouquets score points for combinations like pairs, runs, and having multiple colors. The player with the most points after 4 rounds wins.

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    Ikebana On your turn, you can either: 1. Draw a card or 2. buy a card.

    A game by Antoine Bauza 1. Draw a card


    Draw cards to find one to add to your bouquet using the
    following method:
    Components
    Draw a card, and either add it to your bouquet, or refuse it,
    50 cards in five colors: 10 each of red, black, yellow, green
    place it in your own discard pile and draw another, with the
    and blue, with numbers 1,1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4,5.
    following rules:
    5 multicolored cards (jokers)
    30 yellow tokens << 1 point of prestige >> •To refuse the first card, you must pay a point of prestige to
    15 blue tokens << 5 points of prestige >> the player on your left.
    15 red tokens << 10 points of prestige >> •To refuse the second card, pay 2 prestige points to the next
    5 green tokens << 50 points of prestige >> player clockwise around the table (the second player on your
    left).
    Goal of the Game •To refuse the third card, pay 3 prestige points to the next
    player clockwise around the table.
    The players, talented florists, compete to achieve the best •And so on, until you either draw a card you want to keep, or
    bouquets. To make a bouquet, they must gather 5 cards that you do not want to spend any more prestige drawing cards.
    have combinations of card values (1 to 5) and color (black, (Or until you cannot spend any more!)
    red, green, blue, yellow).
    •You can never pay prestige points to yourself. You jump
    Players try to score points of prestige buy gathering cards to
    directly to the next player instead, always increasing the price
    compose their bouquets.
    by 1 prestige. You can keep drawing cards as long as you
    have enough to pay.
    Some Japanese
    In Japan, Ikebana is the traditional art of flower Note: In a 2 player game, all payments are paid to your
    arranging. The word is composed of two ideograms: opponent.
    “life” and “flower”. Ikebana is therefore the art of
    “giving life to flowers”. Example: In a 3 player game, Mary draws a card, and does
    not like it. She pays Leah, sitting to her left, a point of
    prestige to discard the card and draw another. She doesn't like
    Set up the new card either, and pays 2 points to Sandra, discards it,
    The cards are shuffled and placed in the center of the table to and draws a third. If she does not like this card, she pays 3
    form a draw pile, face down. points to Leah, then 4 to Sandra, and so on.
    Each player starts with 6 “prestige points”. The other tokens
    are the reserve and are placed next to the draw pile. Discards: Each player has their own discard pile to place the
    The player who wears the most colorful clothing starts the cards they reject in. A discarded card is placed face up over
    game. the previous card, so only the last discarded card is visible to
    all the players.

    Playing the Game


    A game of Ikebana is played in 4 rounds. In each round, the
    Discards
    players will compose a bouquet – a set of 5 cards – and win
    prestige points.

    Current
    Players take turns adding a card to their bouquet, until they
    bouquet
    have a total of 5 cards. A round is complete after each player
    collection
    has 5 cards.
    2. Buy a discarded card
    You can buy the top card of another player's discard pile for Example B
    price equal to the value of the card (a value “4” card costs 4
    prestige points).
    The prestige points are paid to the owner of the discard pile,
    and you add the card you purchased to your bouquet. Your
    turn then ends. Score for this bouquet: a '1,2,3,4' straight (8 points), bicolor
    You can never buy a card from your own discard pile. (x2) for a total of 16 prestige points. The pair of '2s' is not
    In addition, if you have begun to draw cards, you cannot counted because one of them is already used in the '1,2,3,4'
    change your mind and buy a discard instead. You must choose straight.
    to draw or buy at the start of your turn.
    Example C
    End of a round
    When all players have 5 cards in their bouquet, the round
    ends. The players than count the prestige from their bouquet,
    based on the combinations if offers (see examples).
    Score for this bouquet: a pair of '5s' (10 points) and no
    multiplier for a total of 10 prestige points.
    Caution: Each card can only be used in one combination.

    After scoring, the cards are all returned and reshuffled. The
    Scoring Combinations Points
    player who scored highest starts the next round.
    Pair (2 identical cards) Value of card x2
    Trio (3 identical cards) Value of card x3
    Deck exhausted: If the deck runs out, players keep the top
    Square (4 identical cards) Value of card x4
    card of the discard pile, and return and shuffle all the others to
    Quinte (5 identical cards) Value of card x5
    make a new draw deck. The game continues normally.
    1,2,3,4 Straight 8 points
    2,3,4,5 Straight 12 points
    1,2,3,4,5 Straight 15 points Victory Conditions

    Furthermore, the points can be multiplied if the bouquet (that The winner is the player who scores the most points after four
    is, all 5 cards, not just the cards used in scoring combinations) rounds. If two players (or more) end with the same score,
    features certain color patterns. they share the victory.

    Color Multiplier Variant: Final Bouquet


    Bicolor (exactly 2 colors) x2 The bouquets of the final round have their value multiplied by
    Multicolor (1 card of each color) x3 two.
    Unicolor (5 cards of the same color) x4
    Credits
    Author: Antoine Bauza toinito.free.fr
    A 3 or 4 color bouquet has no multiplier. (See example C)
    Graphics: Françoise Sengissen albertineralenti.com
    Director and publishing: Franck Plasse
    Florists-testers: Thomas Sylvain, Milou & Fred, Michael Bach,
    Example A Grenoble club members' games in society
    Proofreaders: Sylvain Thomas Reix Olivier, Rémi
    Petermann Cyberfab Cybermimi & Arnaud Villechaise
    Acknowledgments: Benoit Christen, Christopher Dziedzic, Donata Benker, Gregory
    Fischer
    English Translation: Brian Modreski
    English Proofreading: Lisa Bjornseth
    Score for this bouquet: a trio of '3s' (9 points), a pair of '2s'
    (4 points), multicolor (x3) for a total of 39 prestige points.

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