Bonsai
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Bonsai
Description
Description
| Designer |
Rosaria Battiato Massimo Borzì Martino Chiacchiera |
| Publisher | DV Games |
| Players | 1-4 |
| Playtime | 40 mins |
| Suggested Age | 8 and up |
| Expansion | Bonsai: Vigorous Growth and Specialists |
The Japanese term "bonsai" means "planted in a pot".
A bonsai is a living work of art, a perfect miniature plant, identical in all respects to its full-size simile, but several times smaller.
In Bonsai, players take on the role of expert bonsai masters intent on growing their own bonsai.
Whoever grows the best plant will be appointed to show their Bonsai at the Imperial gardens.
On your turn, choose and perform one of these two actions: meditate or cultivate.
If you meditate, choose one of the face up cards on the board and take it, along with any Bonsai tiles represented below the card you draw.
If you cultivate, you can place in your Bonsai the tiles which are in your personal supply. You can place as many tiles as the total symbols depicted on your Seishi tile and any or all of your Growth cards. Each symbol will let you place one tile of the corresponding type.
During the turn in which your bonsai matches or exceeds the requirements of a Goal tile that is still in the middle of the table (i.e., the Goal tile has not been claimed yet by any player), you must immediately choose whether you want to claim that tile or if you want to renounce it in order to try to achieve a harder Goal tile.
When the last card from the deck is revealed, the game end is triggered. Each tile in your bonsai is worth a certain number of points.
In the solo game you can try the Additional Scenarios that change some rules and goals, and eventually try to beat the Emperor Challenge.
—description from the publisher
Customer Reviews
The gameplay is easy to learn and teach. The drafting is pretty simple with little in the way of drastic choices but despite that, this is a lovely little game. By the end of the game you will have a very nice looking and unique bonsai tree. I would definitely recommend this to anyone looking for a light weight family or solo game.
Bought the game wanting a more relaxing less competitive game and this is just that. The family and I really enjoyed taking our time building our trees and had good laughs at the wonky look some got. Overall great relaxing game with easy to follow rules.
Such a very chill game! Relaxing, and very quick. Turns zipper by and before you know it we had made beautiful and point scoring bonsai trees.
Excellent game fast and easy teach
Gorgeous game with very nice production. Super easy to teach and play but when you start playing it, you get some really nice decisions that need to be made in terms of waiting for the right time to cultivate your tree, or continue taking cards. There is surprisingly a lot of tension when waiting for your turn as you see the perfect card show up but not sure if you. want to grab it now when you don't get a lot of tiles or do you wait hoping no one takes it. It's a lot of fun and definitely a great one to have in anyone's collection.
