TORACO Hanafuda

How to play

1. Hanafuda has 48 cards: 4 cards for each of the 12 months. You capture cards by matching two of the same month.
2. On your turn, first play one card from your hand. If a card of the same month is on the table, you capture both! If not, your card stays on the table.
3. Then flip the top card of the deck. It captures a same-month card on the table in the same way.
4. When your captured cards form a yaku (a scoring set), choose Koi-Koi (keep going) or Stop (end the round and take your points).
5. After you call Koi-Koi, watch out: if your opponent makes a yaku and stops first, their points are doubled. If you add to your yaku, you get to choose again.
6. After 3 rounds, whoever has the higher total wins!

The number at the top left of a card is its month (1–12). The mark at the top right is its type: ★ Bright, ◆ Animal, ▮ Ribbon, and no mark for Plain.

Yaku list

• Five Brights (Goko)10 pts

  All 5 Bright cards
• Four Brights (Shiko)8 pts

  4 Brights without the Rain Man
• Rainy Four Brights (Ame-Shiko)7 pts

  4 Brights including the Rain Man
• Three Brights (Sanko)5 pts

  3 Brights without the Rain Man
• Cherry Blossom Viewing (Hanami)5 pts

  Cherry curtain and the sake cup
• Moon Viewing (Tsukimi)5 pts

  Full moon and the sake cup
• Boar, Deer, Butterflies (Ino-Shika-Cho)5 pts

  The three Animal cards: boar, deer, butterflies
• Red Poem Ribbons (Akatan)5 pts

  The 3 red ribbons with writing (pine, plum, cherry)
• Blue Ribbons (Aotan)5 pts

  The 3 blue ribbons (peony, chrysanthemum, maple)
• Animals (Tane)1 pts

  Any 5 Animal cards. +1 pt for each extra
• Ribbons (Tan)1 pts

  Any 5 Ribbon cards. +1 pt for each extra
• Plains (Kasu)1 pts

  Any 10 Plain cards. +1 pt for each extra

Detailed rules

• If two cards of the month are on the table, you choose which one to take. If three are there, you take all four!
• If your yaku total is 7 pts or more, the round's points are doubled.
• Only your highest Bright yaku counts (Five, Four, Rainy Four or Three Brights). All other yaku add up.
• The sake cup (chrysanthemum) counts as both an Animal and a Plain card.
• If you make a yaku with no cards left in your hand, you can't call Koi-Koi; the round ends right there.
• If the hands run out and nobody has stopped, the round has no winner and nobody scores.
• You can call Koi-Koi again every time your yaku total goes up. However many times you call, the other side's points are only doubled once.
• The winner of a round plays first (as dealer) in the next one. You're the dealer in round 1.
• If the totals are equal after 3 rounds, the match is a draw.
• I'll deal again if a hand has four cards of one month or four pairs, or if the table has four cards of one month.
• If you leave in the middle of a match, you can pick it up later on this device.

All cards

• Month 1: Pine

• Month 2: Plum

• Month 3: Cherry

• Month 4: Wisteria

• Month 5: Iris

• Month 6: Peony

• Month 7: Bush clover

• Month 8: Pampas grass

• Month 9: Chrysanthemum

• Month 10: Maple

• Month 11: Willow

• Month 12: Paulownia