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Koi-Koi

こいこい

Japan

Koi-Koi is played with hanafuda ("flower cards"), a 48-card deck of twelve months of four cards each that emerged when Western playing cards were banned in Edo-period Japan. When you complete a scoring combination you may stop — or call "koi-koi" and gamble it all on a bigger hand.

Players
2
Average time
10–20 min
Difficulty
●●●●○

Not playable yet

Pending: the full yaku set and the koi-koi doubling decision deserve a dedicated implementation. The 48-card hanafuda deck itself is already modelled in the engine primitives.

Variant implemented

Pending: the full yaku set and the koi-koi doubling decision deserve a dedicated implementation. The 48-card hanafuda deck itself is already modelled in the engine primitives.

How to play

Koi-Koi is played with hanafuda ("flower cards"), a 48-card deck of twelve months of four cards each that emerged when Western playing cards were banned in Edo-period Japan. When you complete a scoring combination you may stop — or call "koi-koi" and gamble it all on a bigger hand.

Status

Not implemented. This game appears in the catalog and is visible in the app,

but it is marked *Coming Soon* and cannot be played.

Pending: the full yaku set and the koi-koi doubling decision deserve a dedicated implementation. The 48-card hanafuda deck itself is already modelled in the engine primitives.

We would rather show an honest placeholder than ship a rules approximation of a

game that people actually play.

Tags: cards, fishing, hanafuda, hidden-information, provably-fair · Family: fishing cards