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Floriado

by Corné van Moorsel
Online implementation by Thomas Rosanski
Number of players: 2 Age: 8 - 108 Playtime: 15 minutes

As a preview for the Spiel'03 fair in Essen, you can testplay Floriado online. It will be available on the Spiel'03 fair as a free gift for all buyers of any other Cwali game. Here you play the online version in hotseat mode, i.e. you play against another person sitting in front of the same computer.

Rules

A forester lets 2 persons (the players in this game) pick flowers from a field. If you group bundles of a type of flowers, then the forester pays you more. But the visitors of the forest want to enjoy the field with flowers too. Therefore the forester made a flower-picking-rule: each time when you pick the same type of flowers you must pick less!!!

Preparation

Shuffle the 40 cards good. Place them face-up in a 5x8-grid. Each card has 1 up to 8 flowers of one of 5 types. (7 and 8 flowers are marked by 1 and 2 bees.)
Both players take a pawn with front/back side, like a Subulata, boat, plane or truck.
Determine the start player. Moves progress alternating.

Start of the game

The first turn you take one card out of the field, which you place in front of you. You place your pawn on the empty space with the front side in the direction of a row/column of cards. The other player takes a card too and places his/her pawn there.

Walking through the field

Every following turn you walk in horizontal or vertical direction over the field, forward, leftward or rightward, never backward. Your number of steps is free. The position of your opponent's pawn doesn't limit your possible moves. You can pass empty spaces and you must choose one space with a card. You take this card and place your pawn on this new empty space. The front side of your pawn you place in the direction in which you moved, so you can never move in the direction where you just came from.

Add collected flowers

A collected card you add on top of your pile of cards with the same type of flowers. If you collect a new type of flowers, then it is the first card of a new pile. (So you can have 5 piles maximum.) If the card has a higher number of flowers than your lowest card of that type of flowers, then you leave this card in the field, under your pawn. (In that case it is possible that your opponent picks this card under your pawn.)

End of the game

The game ends if both players cannot reach anymore cards to add to a pile of your flower cards. (So if you can't get more cards, then the other player continues.)

Winner is the player with the highest revenue

At the end all your piles of flowers count. The forester pays per type of flowers:

1 card: 0,75	2 cards: 2,-	3 cards:: 4,-	4 cards: 7,-
5 cards: 12,-	6 cards: 18,-	7 cards: 25,-	8 cards: 33,-

online version with kindly permission of Corné van Moorsel