Hanabi

Hanabi BGG link

Players

2 to 5

Play time

25 minutes

Designer

Antoine Bauza

Publishers

ABACUSSPIELE, Cocktail Games, Les 12 Singes, asmodee, Brain Games, Broadway Toys LTD, Buly Games, Competo / Marektoy, cutia.ro, Enigma (Bergsala Enigma), Galápagos Jogos, Games7Days, Gém Klub Kft., Ghenos Games, Happy Baobab, Hobby Japan, Interlude, Kaissa Chess & Games, Lifestyle Boardgames Ltd, Oliphante, PaperGames (III), R&R Games, Rebel Sp. z o.o., REXhry, Spin Master Ltd., Swan Panasia Co., Ltd.

Year

2010

Rating

7.03 (BGG average)

Mechanisms

• Communication Limits
• Cooperative Game
• Hand Management
• Memory
• Ordering
• Set Collection

Categories

• Card Game
• Deduction
• Memory

Families

• Containers: Tin/Metal Box
• Country: Japan
• Digital Implementations: Board Game Arena
• Digital Implementations: Boardible (Mobile)
• Game: Hanabi
• Mechanism: Deduction – Blind Man's Bluff
• Misc: Dice Tower Hall of Fame
• Theme: Fireworks

Description

Hanabi—named for the Japanese word for "fireworks"—is a cooperative game in which players try to create the perfect fireworks show by placing the cards on the table in the right order. (In Japanese, hanabi is written as 花火; these are the ideograms flower and fire, respectively.)

The card deck consists of five different colors of cards, numbered 1–5 in each color. For each color, the players try to place a row in the correct order from 1–5. Sounds easy, right? Well, not quite, as in this game you hold your cards so that they're visible only to other players. To assist other players in playing a card, you must give them hints regarding the numbers or the colors of their cards. Players must act as a team to avoid errors and to finish the fireworks display before they run out of cards.

An extra suit of cards, rainbow colored, is also provided for advanced or variant play.

Hanabi was originally published as part of Hanabi & Ikebana.