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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's been a long time between drinks but a reader made me aware that hatoo.net are back with some new hwatu decks. I decided to go for the 'classic' version; enjoy...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">* it would have been nicer if they had been shipped directly from Hawaii! My favourite US state flag by the way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have been meaning to write a piece on this for awhile but it's difficult to have a comprehensive guide on strategy for Koi Koi, as the game is pretty much <strong>50% skill </strong>and<strong> 50% luck! </strong>Here are a few notes from my experience though...(I hope it makes sense)...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Let's start with <strong>'Skill'</strong>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">This is broken into 4 elements that a player needs to consider and analyse. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">1) The cards in his/her hand</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">2) The cards in the field of play</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">3) The cards he/she has captured and needs to make scoring hands</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">4) The cards that his/her opponent has captured and needs to make scoring hands</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Generally, a 'good' starting hand would be 8 cards of different suits as you'll be pretty much guaranteed to make a matching pair.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">A bad hand would contain a set of triplets and a very bad hand would contain two sets of triplets. Two or three pairs is a pretty poor hand too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The things that a player cannot control are the cards that his/her opponent holds, how he/she plays them and finally, the order of the cards in the stock pile. This is where 'luck' comes into play.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This starts from the moment the cards are shuffled and dealt. You can evaluate the cards you have with those in the field of play and of any that have been captured but as said previously, you cannot control how your opponent plays or what cards are drawn each turn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Due to this 'luck' factor it is always best to make a scoring hand as quickly as possible even if it is a low scoring hand, as this way you win the round (unless you Koi Koi) and stay as (or become) Dealer, giving you the advantage of going first in the next round. Chasing big scoring hands can be hazardous!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Always capture the Sake Cup card (unless you can make a bigger scoring hand capturing a different card that turn) as it counts as an extra junk card as well as being a part of the Hanami-zake and Tsukimi-zake scoring hands. A very powerful card.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Try to stop your opponent from scoring. This sounds obvious but sometimes a player can be focused only on his/her own cards that he/she has captured and needs, completely forgetting about the cards their opponent has captured/requires. An example is to make sure that you capture a poetry scroll card and a blue scroll card. Another example is to capture at least one of the cards that make the Boar-Deer-Butterflies hand. Capturing 'Lights' is a given. This way you reduce the number of scoring hands that your opponent can make, restricting them to mostly low scoring hands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">It is generally a good strategy to capture scroll cards as you can make four* different scoring hands with them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">If you are unable to match a suit with a card from your hand with one in the field of play, then you need to place a card on the table that will do the least amount of damage to you. This usually means playing a junk card as you don't want to be laying down a high value card if you can help it. The best junk cards to play are those of the April and May suits as none of their higher value cards are used to make big scoring hands. The times that it is generally acceptable to play a high value card you can't pair are a) if it is the last card in your hand and b) if you hold another card of the same suit in your hand and the other two cards of that suit have already been captured. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Being the Dealer gives you control of the cards and the advantage of going first each round. It's stating the obvious but if you always stay as Dealer, you won't lose! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don't always chase the big scoring hands, it's better to make a low hand and stop, rather than hoping to get a big hand (unless you are playing a limited number of rounds and are chasing the game).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sometimes when your cards are running out you will have to try and play for the draw/tie (unless the Dealer's Privilege rule is in effect and your opponent is the Dealer). You could find yourself in a situation where you are nowhere near making any sort of hand (whilst your opponent is), so your best bet is to frustrate your opponent by evaluating what cards they have captured and then by trying to capture the cards that they need.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">As there are many different scoring systems and optional rules in Koi Koi, always agree on them prior to playing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Risk and Reward - The higher the risk, the greater the reward (just like real life). Not so great if you lose though! Sometimes you just have to know when to stop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">If you're playing for money then just bet what you can afford to lose. Gamble responsibly!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Each game of Koi Koi is different but by utilising your experience and judgement, with a little bit of luck, you should do okay! ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> * capturing all poetry scroll cards and all blue scroll cards counts as a scoring hand in its own right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Card Hierarchy</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Crane, Curtain*, Harvest Moon*, Phoenix, Sake Cup*</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">* these being 'first among equals'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Poetry Scrolls, Blue Scrolls, Boar, Deer, Butterflies</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">This may seem controversial as it is a 'Light' card but you can only make two of the higher scoring hands with it.</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664984126723773023.post-2285507124298580862014-10-24T13:27:00.002+01:002014-10-25T21:35:01.757+01:00Hanafuda Koi Koi by Robin Red Games<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I imported this from Le Puy in Allassac, Limousin, central France. These are the first French designed and made deck of flower cards that I have seen. You get the standard 48 cards plus 2 Jokers, 5 Koi Koi 'Player Aid' cards (in French x2, English, Spanish and German) as well as a Koi Koi rule book. The cards measure 87mm x 56mm and retail for 12 Euro plus shipping. There are few little issues though...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One interesting design feature (which I like) is the use of symbols to help beginners learn the different scoring hands. Note that the symbols are for the game of Koi Koi only.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Project Hannah is primarily my response to the general lack of variety of Hanafuda out there. In recent times we have seen an explosion in the sheer variety of so called 'Western' or 'Poker' playing cards available. The designs and artwork employed in these are often innovative and breath-taking. Now of course many artists/designers don't do this sort of thing just for fun, they like to make a few pennies out of the enterprise too. Project Hannah isn't a commercially available deck, it has just been a labour of love for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am not a professional artist nor pretend to be but I have always appreciated Art and Design, whether it be paintings, drawings, sculpture, architecture or graphic design. One area of design that I have a deep interest in is Heraldry (and by extension also logos, symbols, emblems and flags).</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My first decision in designing the deck was the general look and feel of it. Japanese 'heraldry' developed independently and in isolation of European heraldry but it shares many characteristics. Japanese 'heraldry' is quite simplistic when compared to all the different elements that comprise European heraldry but this doesn't make it any less beautiful. It seemed a perfect fit! Interestingly enough I found that I could pretty much source all of my deck from Japanese Kamon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">So I went ahead and designed an initial 48 cards. I toyed with the idea of each card having an unique design but this seemed labour intensive and unnecessary as was my idea of each suit having a single dominant colour as I think I would have run out of colours pretty quickly! Hanafuda are very popular in Korea where the cards are called Hwatu. Korean decks pretty much follow the look of the traditional 'hachihachibana' Japanese pattern but the decks also include Bonus/Joker cards. The designs and uses of these cards differ from deck to deck and from maker to maker. As I own both Hanafuda and Hwatu decks and the fact that I have visited both countries, I decided to include these bonus cards albeit with Japanese designs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I was pretty excited when my printed cards dropped through my letter box. At last I had a real life deck as opposed to one that just existed on my computer or in cyberspace. I wasn't expecting HD but some of the images looked better than others and that was more to do with my formatting than the printing process. This was one of the triggers that made me want to revisit some of my designs. That deck is now my 'prototype deck'. This is about my 'Final' deck - a fusion deck, where 'East' meets 'West' and 'Old' meets 'New'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">A new design element that I introduced was for the scroll cards. During gameplay I tend to stack my captured cards so only the extreme left side of the cards are mainly seen. Due to this I decided to use coloured stripes on the left hand side of the cards to represent the scrolls. This way you can see at a glance what coloured scroll cards you have. I also changed the colour scheme of the traditional scroll cards to match the scheme employed in one of my Korean made decks:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">My main concern here was to give the cards a 'wintry' look and feel. The white backgrounds represent the snow and they provide the perfect contrast to the black Pines. The junk cards mirror each other which is a theme that runs through most (but not all) of this deck. A splash of red completes the look. ;) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">A simple yet beautiful colour scheme (just like many of the Japanese city and prefectural flags). White represents snow and the grey is just there to give precedence to the red stripe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The only design brief here was 'pink' and lots of it! Oh and the flowers had to be in different colours to the February cards. I don't know why but newcomers to Hanafuda always seem to confuse the Plum blossoms with the Cherry blossoms and vice versa. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">A mainly blue and subdued colour scheme unlike the real life flowers. No plank bridge in view. One just has to imagine that one is stood on the edge of the bridge admiring the flowers. ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Where is the Boar? He is in the bush clover somewhere, probably asleep. Honest! Truth is I couldn't find a Boar in any bona fide Japanese Kamon. Just call it artistic licence. There is also a bit of a coffee coloured theme going on. ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">A month of transition when Summer fades into Autumn. The scroll card reflects this transition, whilst the bright yellow and blue in the junk cards are just pure Summer. The over-sized Sake Cup represents its special status as both an 'animal' and 'junk' card and its use in making the Blossom Viewing and Moon Viewing scoring hands in the game of Koi-Koi. A very powerful card indeed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">This month is traditionally the first full month of Autumn in the northern hemisphere and the cards represent the colours associated with the season; brown, red, yellow and green. For the junk cards we have red on the left, green on the right (for Port and Starboard) whilst the scroll card has the maple leaf pointing downwards as if it's ready to 'fall'. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">This suit is more commonly known as 'Rain' (Ame) in Japan and the grey backgrounds reflect this. It is also my birth month. The Umbrella was an obvious choice as this card is used to make the yaku 'Ame-Shiko' (Rainy Four Lights) in the game of Koi-Koi. The scroll card depicts Willow but it also represents the 'brush strokes' of the Calligrapher '<span class="st">Ono no Michikaze' (the usual main subject depicted on the November Light card). The Junk card depicts the usual lightning and rain and keeps the traditional red and black colour scheme. It also looks like some sort of demonic face mask.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">+7 Junk cards (Seven stars of the 'Big Dipper' constellation - This card represents my vast interest in the Universe)</span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Light card (The Sun - This recalls the iconic Japanese Naval Ensign)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Phoenix </strong>(Purple and White) - Tokyo Prefecture and Beppu</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>January/Pine suit</strong> (White background) - Hokkaido Prefecture (The flags of Sapporo, Otaru and Chitose have a White field)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>3 Sake Cups</strong> (Purple and Yellow) - Kyoto Prefecture</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Sake Cup</strong> (White and Red) Yokohama/Kanagawa Prefecture, Nagasaki and Nagoya</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Harvest Moon</strong> (Red and White) - Hiroshima Prefecture</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Crane </strong>(White, Black and Red) - Kagoshima Prefecture</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Maple Junk card</strong> (Green and White) - Kobe, Morioka, Himeji and Tochigi Prefecture</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Bush Warbler</strong> (Blue and White) - Osaka Prefecture</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>December Junk card</strong> (White and Purple) - Fukuoka</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Japanese Black Pine is native to the coastal areas of Kyūshū, Shikoku and the main island of </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Honshū</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">.</span> The trees can reach a height of forty metres and are widely used as 'Niwaki' (garden trees) as well as being a classic choice of subject for Bonsai.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Senbazuru were popularized by the tragic story of Sadako Sasaki <span style="font-weight: normal;">(<span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja" style="font-family: sans-serif;" xml:lang="ja">佐々木 禎子), <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">who was exposed to the fallout of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. On 3 August 1955, Sadako's best friend Chizuko Hamamoto came to visit her in hospital and cut a black piece of paper into a square to fold it into a paper Crane (in reference to the ancient Japanese story that promises </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish by the gods). A popular version of the story is that Sadako fell short of her goal of folding 1,000 Cranes, having folded only 644 before her death and that her friends completed the 1,000 and buried them all with her. She died of Leukemia (due to the radiation exposure) on 25 October 1955, aged 12. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A statue of Sadako holding a golden Crane was unveiled in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in 1958. At the foot of the statue is a plaque that reads:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Prunus mume is more commonly known as the Chinese Plum or Japanese Apricot. Although generally referred to in English as 'Plum', it is more closely related to the Apricot. It originated in southern China around the Yangtze River. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Japanese varieties are classified 'Yabai' (Wild), 'Hibai' (Red), and 'Bungo' (Bungo Province). The term 'Ume' derives from middle Chinese, in which the pronunciation was thought to have been '</span><em><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">muəi'.</span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ume Blossoms are often mentioned in </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Japanese poetry</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> as a symbol of Spring. When used in </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">haiku</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> or </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">renga</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, they are a <i>kigo</i> or season word for early Spring. The blossoms are associated with the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Japanese Bush Warbler</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.<sup> </sup>Plum blossoms were favoured during the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nara period</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> (710–794) until the emergence of the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Heian period</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> (794-1185) in which the Cherry blossoms were preferred.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A Group of Children Playing under the Plum Blossoms in the Snow, 1887.<br />- Hashimoto Chikanobu (1838–1912)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some other Japanese names given to the bird are <i>haru-dori</i> (Spring bird), <i>haru-tsuge-dori</i> (Spring-announcing bird) and <i>hanami-dori</i> (Spring-flower-viewing bird). Its place in Japanese poetry has also given it the names <i>uta-yomi-dori</i> (Poem-reading bird) and <i>kyo-yomi-dori</i> (Sutra-reading bird). The latter because its call is traditionally transcribed in Japanese as 'Hō-hoke-kyo', the abbreviated Japanese title of the lotus sutra.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The bird is drab-coloured and secretive. It is normally only seen in Spring before there is foliage in the trees. In Winter the call is a low chirping. The Japanese Bush Warbler tends to remain deep in the shadow of foliage during the day. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Even so, many Japanese people mistake the Japanese White-eye (目白 mejiro) for the Japanese bush warbler (鶯 uguisu).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is one of the favourite motifs of </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Japanese poetry</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, featured in many poems including those in <i>Man'yōshū</i> or <i>Kokin Wakashū</i>. In </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">haiku</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">renga</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, <i>uguisu</i> is one of the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">kigo</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> which signify the early Spring. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> There is also a popular Japanese sweet named <i>Uguisu-boru</i> (Uguisu Balls) which consists of brown and white balls meant to resemble Ume flower buds. The distinctive song of the bird is not usually heard until later in Spring, well after the Ume blossoms have faded. In haiku the bird with this song is known as <i>sasako</i>, and the song is called <i>sasanaki</i>. The beauty of its song led to the English name <i>Japanese Nightingale </i>although the Japanese Bush Warbler does not sing at night as the European nightingale does.<sup> </sup>This name is no longer commonly used.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An <i>uguisu-jō</i> (jō = woman) is a female announcer at Japanese baseball games, or a woman employed to advertise products and sales with a microphone outside retail stores. These women are employed because of their beautiful 'warbling' voices. They are also employed to make public announcements for politicians in the lead-up to elections.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In Japanese architecture there is a type of floor known as '</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">uguisubari'</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, which is generally translated into English as '</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">nightingale floor'</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. These floors have squeaking floorboards that resemble the Japanese Bush Warbler's low chirping and are meant to be so designed to warn sleepers of the approach of N</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">inja</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Examples</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> can be seen at </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eikan-dō temple</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nijō Castle</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Chion-in</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> temple in Kyoto.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Cherry Blossoms have a very deep meaning for the Japanese. A blossoming Cherry tree is a beautiful sight but it does not last for very long. In a moment, a strong wind can strip a tree bare. It is a symbol of the brevity and uncertainty of life. Youth, pleasure, fame and misfortune, all blossom and fade like the ephemeral Cherry Blossom. Sakura also symbolise clouds due to their nature of blooming <span lang="Fr" style="font-family: sans-serif;" xml:lang="Fr">en masse. </span>They are an aspect of Japanese cultural tradition that is often associated with Buddhist influence and which is embodied in the concept of 'Mono no aware' (which is a Japanese term for the awareness of the transience of things and a gentle sadness (or wistfulness) at their passing). The association of the Cherry Blossom with 'Mono no aware' dates back to the 18th-century scholar Motoori Norinaga. The transience of the blossoms, the extreme beauty and quick death, has often been associated with mortality and it is a reminder for us to focus on the present.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mount Fuji seen through Cherry Blossoms by Katsushika Hokusai (<span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja" style="font-family: sans-serif;" xml:lang="ja">葛飾 北斎).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are three varieties of Japanese Iris - Hanashōbu, Kakitsubata and Ayame. Sometimes this suit is referred to as Shōbu but it really should be named Kakitsubata! Depending on where it is cultivated, Hanashōbu is classified as Edo (Tokyo), Higo (Kumamoto Prefecture) or Ise (Mie Prefecture). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kakitsubata is the prefectural flower of Aichi Prefecture and grows in the semi wet. The famous tanka poem is said to have been written in this area during the Heian period. This poem appears in the 'Tales of Ise' by the waka poet and aristocrat Ariwara no Narihira <span style="font-weight: normal;">(<span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja" style="font-family: sans-serif;" xml:lang="ja">在原 業平). </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Acer palmatum, also called Japanese Maple or Smooth Japanese Maple (irohamomiji, <span class="t_nihongo_kanji"><span lang="ja" style="font-family: sans-serif;" xml:lang="ja">イロハモミジ </span></span>or momiji, <span class="t_nihongo_kanji"><span lang="ja" style="font-family: sans-serif;" xml:lang="ja">紅葉</span></span>) is a species of woody plant native to Japan, Korea, China, eastern Mongolia and south-eastern Russia. Many different cultivars of this Maple have been selected and they are grown worldwide for their attractive leaf shapes and colours. It is a </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">deciduous</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">shrub</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> or small </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">tree</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> reaching heights of 6 to 10 metres (20 to 33 feet), rarely 16 metres (52 feet), often growing as an understory plant in shady </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">woodlands</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. For centuries Japanese horticulturalists have developed cultivars from Maples found in Japan and nearby Korea and China. They are a popular choice for </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">bonsai</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> enthusiasts and have long been a subject in art.</span></div>
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In Nara Prefecture, the Deer are also known as 'Bowing deer' as they bow their heads before being fed special <i>shika senbei</i> <span style="font-weight: normal;">(<span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja" style="font-family: sans-serif;" xml:lang="ja">鹿せんべい)</span>, called 'Deer cookies'</span>. However, Deer bow their heads to signal that they are about to head butt. Therefore, when a Human 'bows' to a Deer, the Deer will assume the same stance and may charge and injure the Human. Deer head butt both for play and to assert dominance (as do Goats). Sika Deer are found throughout the Prefecture, particularly Nara's many parks and temples like Tōdai-ji, as they are considered to be the messengers of the Shinto gods.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to Chinese legend, the Hō-ō appears very rarely and only to mark the beginning of a new era (like the birth of a virtuous ruler, for example). In other traditions, the Hō-ō appears only in peaceful and prosperous times (nesting, it is said, in Paulownia trees) and hides itself when there is trouble. As the herald of a new age, the Hō-ō decends from heaven to earth to do good deeds and then it returns to its celestial abode to await a new era. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The 'Home' screen (above) has five main options; Touching the large speech bubble takes you to the 'Game Mode' screen. The other options underneath going from left to right are 1) Tutorial, 2) Options/Settings, 3) Statistics and 4) Theme Change (Girls, Animals &c).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The Tutorial is 15 screens long and not surprisingly, it is exclusively in Japanese. When capturing cards, a blue block will appear when you are one card away from making that particular scoring hand (yaku). A blue block will then turn pink when a scoring hand (yaku) is made.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The game offers three different modes; 6-round game, 12-round game and Continuous Battle. The latter gets you playing 6-round games against opponent after opponent until you lose. In 'Continuous Battle' mode you start with 20pts and your opponent starts with 10pts. The goal is to reduce your opponents score to zero. Certificates/Trophies are awarded for beating 5, 10, 20 and 30 opponents in a row and costumes and art work are also unlocked. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Depending on your sensibilities and preferences you play either against 6 Manga/Anime-style girls or cute animals or just against a Japanese still life background (of course you can cycle through these at any time). I play against the 'girls', my favourite being the girl with the brown hair, red skirt and blue blazer. ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Double tap the relevant girl you want to play. When you do this the 'button' on the bottom right will become 'active'. Touch that 'button' to start play. Alternatively touching the pink 'button' second from right will randomly select an opponent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">She is my favourite.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Statistics</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The stats section is fairly self explanatory, the first screen shows you your win/loss records for all three game modes. As you can see I haven't played any 12-round games yet. The second screen details how many times you have made a certain hand (yaku) as well as other things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Statistics - Screen 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The '16' in the speech bubble isn't the girls age, it was my best winning streak (update: It is now 51) in 'Continuous Battle' mode. I played that mode twice, so I expected to see a '2' appear in the loss section rather than '0'! A 'bug' in the software maybe?! The Cat's head icon will take you to the gallery of unlocked art work. Touching the pink 'button' at the middle bottom of the screen takes you to the second screen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Statistics - Screen 2</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Most of the second screen details how many times you have made a certain scoring hand (yaku) but I have an issue around the 'Aka-tan' and 'Ao-tan' counts. The row third from bottom (in the first column) groups instances of making 'Aka-tan' and 'Ao-tan' together when 'Tan' has been made as well. In one word - why? I'm not convinced that the game compiles those hands correctly either.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The scoring hands (yaku) are listed as follows:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>Left column, from top to bottom:</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">5 Lights</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">4 Lights</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Rainy 4 Lights</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">3 Lights</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Moon Viewing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Blossom Viewing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Boar-Deer-Butterfly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Red Poetry Scrolls or Blue Scrolls with Scrolls</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Red Poetry Scrolls</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Blue Scrolls</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Animals</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Scrolls</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Junk</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Options/Settings</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The devil is in the detail and there are plenty of gameplay options to set/unset. This is where (unless you can read Japanese or you have done your homework) things can get quite tricky. Let me help you out here...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>入 (Iri) = 'Input' (On).</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span class="alt-edited"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>切 (Setsu) = 'Off'.</strong></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">This screen has the following seven options:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>Left column, from top to bottom:</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">1) Three options for 'greying-out' cards. I use option 'B', this is where the cards in your hand are 'greyed-out' if they do not match any in the field of play.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">2) Option for a sound effect to sound when it is your turn. I say 'don't bother', as it is a very annoying 'Meow'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">3) Game Announcer (On/Off).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">4) Game speed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">5) Option to display the remaining cards of the opponents hand after the round has finished.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>Right column, from top to bottom:</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">6) Option to use 'traditional' (Hachihachibana pattern) or 'cartoony' style Hanafuda. 'B' = the 'cartoony' cards (which in my opinion is a better fit with the overall art style of the game).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">7) Background music/ipod and volume settings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Touching the 'button' in the middle at the base of the screen saves your settings, whilst </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">touching the 'button' in the bottom right of the screen takes you to the 'Rule Options' screen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Rule Options</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This section is quite straightforward. It pretty much allows you to make your own 'house rules'. Play Koi-Koi your way!</span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>入 (Iri) = 'Input' (On).</strong></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span class="alt-edited"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>切 (Setsu) = 'Off'.</strong></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><em>Left
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">1) 3 Lights
(On/Off).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">2) Rainy 4
Lights (On/Off).</span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">3) Boar-Deer-Butterfly
(On/Off).</span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">4) Moon Viewing
and Blossom Viewing ('A' = On, 'B' = On but they only count if another yaku is made and '<span class="alt-edited"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">切</span></span>' = Off).</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">5) Set the Moon Viewing and Blossom Viewing score value ('A'= 5pts, 'B' = 3pts). I use 'A'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">6) On/Off option for x2
score multiplier for obtaining a scoring hand => 7pts. e.g. 9pts becomes 18pts.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p>7) On/Off option for x2 score multiplier you receive if you make a scoring hand and 'stop' after your opponent 'Koi-Koi's!</o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">8) Four
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</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">9) Sticky
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</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">10) 'Garbage Bills' ('A'/'B' and Off) - Note: I have no idea what this means/does, so I have it set to 'Off'. If anybody out there does know, then please tell me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">11) Winner stays as Dealer ('A') or Alternate Dealer ('B').</span></div>
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'A' - Aka-tan (5pts) plus 1 point for each additional scroll card (2pts). Total value = 7pts.</div>
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'B' - Aka-tan (5pts) and Tan (for having 5 scroll cards in total) (1pt). Total value = 6pts.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">First, we need to decide who the 'Oya' (Dealer) will be. So pick a card, any card. The earliest card decides who goes first, e.g. February beats April (or like the Japanese would say Second Month beats Fourth Month).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Now we get down to the business of matching cards to make those scoring hands...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The cards you capture appear in the bottom right of the screen. Naturally, they are arranged by their type; Lights, Animals, Scrolls and Junk. Tapping either your own or your opponents captured cards will enlarge them. Tap them again to return them to their original size.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">When you make a scoring hand, this appears (unless you have just played the final card in your hand):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Do you 'Carry on' (Koi-Koi - </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>こいこい</strong>)? or do you 'Stop' </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Shōbu - <strong>勝負</strong>) and take the points? The choice is yours. Notice how all the girls in the previous three screens are different? I need to 'fire' the person in charge of 'continuity'! ;)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The little blue Cat's head icon changes the girls' outfits. This feature has to be unlocked by defeating 20 and 30 opponents (the latter unlocks Kimono outfits) in 'Continuous Battle' mode though. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The rest of the options should be easy for you to decipher, from changing the theme, volume, game speed and the deck design. Touching the pink 'button' at the bottom closes the options and takes you back to the game screen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Another cool feature of this game are the little animations that appear when you make a scoring hand (yaku). Here are two of them:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You'd think she'd be happy (unlike the Cats)! That was a close one. Oh well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The game is available on iTunes and Google Play. There is also a free 'Lite' version of the game. This is the best looking Koi-Koi app I have seen and played yet. Give it a go!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">- AI isn't that tough</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">- One or two minor 'bugs' regarding rules</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">- Not in HD</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Verdict 9/10</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here we have another free Koi-Koi game on Android. The graphics are pretty basic with a simple user interface (even if most of it is in Japanese) but the cards are rendered nicely (well they look good on my Nexus 7). I saw one reviewer on Google Play moan about how <em>'Hanami-zake'</em> (Cherry Blossom Viewing) and <em>'Tsukimi-zake'</em> (Moon Viewing) are not included. However, those two hands are there but you need to turn them on (not everyone likes those two hands as they are fairly easy to get you see). It only takes a little bit of messing around on the mainly Japanese language menu screen and then you're good to go. Even Nintendo's official rules state that these two hands can be 'omitted'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The winner is the first to 30 points in this instance and you take alternate turns in being the 'Oya' or Dealer (literally 'Parent'). The latter I am unused to, as I always play the rule that if you win a round then you become the Dealer (or stay as the Dealer). Another thing is that no multipliers are used, so if you make a yaku that is 9 points, then that is exactly what you get. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Touching the Japanese script (near the top left of the screen above) brings up a table of the scoring hands (yaku) where 'Hanami-zake' and 'Tsukimi-zake' will be 'greyed-out' unless they have been turned on. The AI is quite challenging as so far I've won 3 times and lost 5 times. The game still gets a big 'thumb's up' from me though!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Mushi</strong> (<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">虫</span>, which means 'insect') is a popular (and easy) two player game from Japan's Kansai (<span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja" xml:lang="ja">関西地方)</span> or Kinki (<span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja" xml:lang="ja">近畿地方</span>) region (the area centred around the cities of Osaka and Kyoto). It is very similar to Hana-Awase and it employs pretty much the same game mechanics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two major differences between Mushi and games like Koi-Koi and Hana-Awase is that only 40 of the standard 48 cards are used (the June and July suits are discarded) and the November Lightning (or Storm) card is utilised as a wild card.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>1)</strong> Remove the June (Hagi/Bush Clover) and July (Botan/Peony) suits from the deck (unless you have a special 'Mushifuda' deck like 'Dai-Shogun' or 'Glory' of course) as these are not used to play Mushi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>2)</strong> Decide who will be the 'Oya' or Dealer. You can do this many ways...by a coin toss, by a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors, by rolling a die or just by good old fashioned agreement. However, I recommend the two card method, where two face down cards are picked and the player that draws the earliest month (e.g. February beats October) becomes the first 'Oya'. If both players draw the same month then the higher rank card wins. If both players draw a junk card of the same month, then this process is repeated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>3)</strong> The Dealer deals his opponent four cards face down. The Dealer then deals four cards face up in the field and then he deals himself four cards face down. The Dealer then repeats this process (the very same process as for Koi-Koi and Hana-Awase). Each player will now have eight cards and there will be eight cards face up in the field.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>4)</strong> Players then try to capture cards in the same way as they do in Koi-Koi, however just like Hana-Awase, players are not allowed to 'stop' when a scoring hand is made, they play on until all cards have been captured. A game of Mushi usually consists of twelve rounds but you can play as many rounds as you like. The winner of a round becomes the Dealer for the next round.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">x3 Lights = 60pts</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">x2 Animals = 20pts</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">x5 Scrolls = 25pts</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There should be seven extra cards here but unfortunately one of the 'DIY Cards' 'didn't make it'! :(</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664984126723773023.post-57584354680520669272013-06-11T22:29:00.000+01:002013-06-11T22:42:12.475+01:00N Seoul Tower Hwatu<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, I never saw any of these when I visited Seoul Tower :(</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664984126723773023.post-8783764917729829572013-06-11T19:42:00.000+01:002013-07-01T08:41:32.193+01:00Nintendo's official Koi-Koi Rules - European edition<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have the 'European' edition of Nintendo's Mario Hanafuda and one of the 'joys' of this is that the rules are printed in <u>seven</u> different languages. Here are a few shots of the English language rules...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">#6 (Donkey Kong, Wario, Paragoomba) is better known as Boar-Deer-Butterfly (Ino-shika-cho). It is odd how Ame-Shiko isn't listed separately though!</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664984126723773023.post-14416489936689375302013-06-11T14:23:00.000+01:002013-06-11T20:18:30.364+01:00Dual Hanafuda/Trump Cards by Daiso Japan<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In Japan, 'Western' style playing cards are called 'Trump' cards. Here we have a deck of cards that look like the normal Anglo-French-American* cards but you can also play games like Koi-Koi and Hana Awase with them too! Genius!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I'm sure that one of the July junk cards is a bonus/joker card but that doesn't explain the 'Gwang' symbols on the other two junk cards! An error in production?!</span></div>
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