Kamisado

Kamisado is an abstract strategy board game for two players. It is played on an 8x8 multicoloured board. Each player controls a set of eight octagonal ‘dragon tower’ pieces. Each player’s set of dragon towers contains a tower to match each of the colours that appear on the squares of the board (i.e a brown tower, a green tower, a red tower, a yellow tower, a pink tower, a purple tower, a blue tower and an orange tower). One player’s towers have gold dragons mounted on the top, while the other player’s towers are topped with black dragons.

The players’ towers start the game on their own ‘Home Row’ (the row nearest to them). The players take turns to move one tower any number of spaces in a straight line, either directly forwards or diagonally forwards, but not into or through a square already containing another dragon tower.

The player with the black dragons moves first, and may choose any tower. From this point onwards, each player MUST use his/her dragon tower that matches the colour of the square that the opponent’s last move finished on.

The object of the game is to reach your opponent’s Home Row with one of your dragon towers. The first player to achieve this goal is the winner of the round. Games may be played as single rounds, or as more advanced ‘Match’ formats. Matches are played up to 3 points (Standard Match), 7 points (Long Match) or 15 points (Marathon Match!).

During a match, each time a round is won, a special ‘Sumo Ring’ is added to the dragon tower that has fought its way through to the opponent’s Home Row. The sumo rings provide the scoring system for the game, and also endow special powers to the dragon towers that carry them. These towers are known as Sumo towers and have the ability to push opponent’s towers back one space, by using a move known as a ‘Sumo Push’.

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