Hanabi
- 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, Galápagos Jogos, Gém Klub Kft., Happy Baobab, Hobby Japan, 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
- 7.08 (BGG average)
Mechanisms
- Communication Limits
- Cooperative Game
- Hand Management
- Memory
- Roles with Asymmetric Information
- Set Collection
Categories
Families
- Country: Japan
- Digital Implementations: Board Game Arena
- Game: Hanabi
- Mechanism: Deduction – Blind Man's Bluff
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ç«; 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.