Niwa (2017)

About this game

You are in a Japanese garden. Like the Japanese masters, the players make strategic moves to reach their opponent's camp. There's lot of strategy in this game where you advance step by step. To win the game, you must be the first to reach the opponent's temple with one of your three "kokeshi" figurine. At the begining, each figurine have 2 beads. The bead of the top of each figure allows him to cross a line of the same color ... In your turn, you can: -move one of your figurines and pass to an other figurine the beads you used, one by one -just pass a bead from the top of a figurine to another figurine -make jump one of you figurine up another if its has no bead on it!

Does it fit your group?

• Group size. Strictly 2 players — no more, no fewer.
• Rules load. At 1.8/5 this is a light game — explain it in a few minutes, good for a table that has not played much.
• Age. The publisher suggests 7 and up. That rates the rules rather than the artwork, so judge the box yourself for younger players.