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The Diamond Swap (Import)

2024-02-07T01:24:34-05:00

Vendor: Oink Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 34.95

Designer	Jun Sasaki
Publisher	Oink Games
Players	3-5
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	9 and up
Additional Info	352234/diamond-swap http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/352234/diamond-swap/forums/63

Note: English rules included in the game

The Diamond Swap, or すりかえだいや, is a game in which the burglar has 10 seconds in between a blackout to covertly switch out one of the coveted diamonds with a fake. And, security must work together to spot the fake using clues in the subtle size differences in the diamonds. But be careful! There are also burglars hiding among the security. Don't let them fool you in the discussion...!

The Diamond Swap combines trying to spot the difference and tricking your opponents. All 30 diamond chips are slightly different in size. In this identity-concealing type game, you are divided into two groups: the burglars whose mission is to deceive, and security, who needs to see through the subtle size changes after the diamond swap.

The player who draws the "burglar" card steals one of the five authentic diamonds in the center and secretly replaces it with a fake from their hand. All within the time the security guards are counting to 10 with their eyes closed. After everyone has opened their eyes, as a group, everyone has to deduce which diamond has been swapped. Though, the differences in sizes are hard to distinguish.

In the midst of all this guesswork, the burglar tries to deceive the security guards and lead them astray. Sometimes the burglar isn’t alone, and has partners in crime to help with to disrupting deductions. Can security avoid being deceived by the burglars and reveal the diamond that’s been swapped?

Dokojong (Import)

2024-02-07T01:23:50-05:00

Vendor: Oink Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 34.95

Designer	Jun Sasaki Hayashi Shiina (椎名隼也)
Publisher	Oink Games
Players	2-5
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	9 and up
Additional Info	330401/dokojong http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/330401/dokojong/forums/63

Note: English rules included in the game

In Dokojong, a.k.a. ドコジャン, players try to guess where each other's dog is hidden among five tiles. You want to avoid revealing your dog's whereabouts, but if you overact to avoid guesses, your dog may be exposed.

Rafter Five

2024-01-23T14:48:10-05:00

Vendor: Oink Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 24.95

Designer	ましう (Mashiu) Jun Sasaki
Publisher	Oink Games
Players	1-6
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	7 and up
Additional Info	405538/rafter-five http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/405538/rafter-five/forums/63

In Rafter Five, you and your fellow players want to build as large a raft as possible — but you want to end up being the only one who can board it.

To start, stack the box top and bottom to create a base, then place the five wooden rafter pieces on the starting card on top of the base.

On a turn, lift a rafter, place a raft card on the playing area, replace the rafter, then place one of your treasure chests somewhere on the raft...ideally in a precarious position because if someone else knocks off this chest, they must keep it in their hold. If a player collects five treasure chests owned by other players in their hold, they're out of the game! (You can knock off your own chests without penalty, but you're making the game easier for everyone else.)

Whale to Look

2023-12-27T14:54:29-05:00

Vendor: Oink Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 17.95

Designer	Bruno Faidutti Jun Sasaki
Publisher	Oink Games
Players	2-5
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	9 and up
Additional Info	388413/whale-look http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/388413/whale-look/forums/63

A bay full of huge whales and orcas, and quite popular among whale-watching tourists, is becoming overrun with four companies. The whales on the other hand, seem to be enjoying themselves, sometimes showing up, sometimes not...... As one of these tour companies, you must decide where to send out your boat! If you dilly-dally too long, one of the rival companies will pass by, but sometimes when your own investigation isn't enough, you might need to follow a rival company!

Order Overload: Cafe

2022-12-27T10:47:12-05:00

Vendor: Oink Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 23.95

Designer	Jun Sasaki
Publisher	Oink Games
Players	2-6
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	6 and up
Additional Info	361214/order-overload-cafe http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/361214/order-overload-cafe/forums/63

You and your fellow players work in a coffee shop in Order Overload: Cafe, and to keep your jobs, you need to keep a handle on all the orders coming in. Will you be able to make the right drinks?

In a round, you deal a certain number of cards face up and read them aloud so that everyone knows all the orders placed, then you deal these cards out face down to the players. On a turn, you need to name an order that's in someone else's hand. Fail to do so, and you're eliminated from play! If you collectively reveal a set number of drinks before everyone is eliminated, then you clear the level and are ready to take on tougher challenges...

What's the highest level you can clear?

In a Grove

2022-03-08T01:07:49-05:00

Vendor: Oink Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 25.95

Designer	Jun Sasaki
Publisher	Oink Games
Players	3-4
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	9 and up
Honors	2011 Japan Boardgame Prize Voters' Selection Nominee
Additional Info	102181/grove http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/102181/grove/forums/63

Hattari — a.k.a. Yabunonaka (also known by the English name "In a Grove") — is a game of bluffing and deduction, and the player who ends up with the fewest accusation markers wins the game.

The game is played in rounds. Each round, each player receives one of the eight silhouettes (which are numbered 2-8 with one blank), while three silhouettes are placed in the center of the table as suspects and the final silhouette is dubbed the victim. (With three players, the #2 is removed from the game.) You have to determine which suspect is the culprit, either to accuse him or to lure the other players into accusing someone who's innocent!

All players secretly look at their silhouettes, then pass them right, then look at the new silhouette they received. The first player of the round secretly looks at two of the three suspects, optionally swapping the victim for one of these suspects. He then places a colored accusation marker below one of the suspects. The next player looks at the two suspects not just marked with an accusation marker, then places a colored accusation marker of her own, covering any markers already beneath that suspect. This continues until all four players have placed an accusation marker, with each player not being allowed to look at the suspect just accused.

The round ends, and players reveal the suspects. Who's the culprit? The suspect bearing the highest number – except if the #5 is among the suspects, in which case the suspect with the lowest number is guilty. (The suspect with no number is always innocent.) Anyone who has accused the correct suspect receives his accusation marker back. Any markers incorrectly placed are flipped colored-side down and given to the player who owns the marker on top of the stack. The first player token rotates clockwise, then a new round begins.

The game ends when any player has no colored markers available to place or any player has collected eight or more markers, whatever their color. The player holding the fewest markers wins the game.

Moon Adventure

2021-11-30T11:46:04-05:00

Vendor: Oink Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 30.95

Designer	Jun Sasaki
Publisher	Oink Games
Players	2-5
Playtime	40 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	330403/moon-adventure http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/330403/moon-adventure/forums/63

In Moon Adventure, a.k.a. 月面探険, players work together as a team on a desperate mission to recover supplies on the moon. Will the crew be able to survive the magnetic storms and limited oxygen supply?

Ninja Catfoot and the Covert Action (Import)

2020-12-19T17:20:51-05:00

Vendor: Oink Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 39.95

Designer	Jun Sasaki
Publisher	Oink Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	15-25 mins
Suggested Age	7 and up
Additional Info	311457/ninja-catfoot-and-covert-action http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/311457/ninja-catfoot-and-covert-action/forums/63

Move slowly, but quickly!?

It's time for a big ninja catfoot mission to recover the stolen scrolls! But look out for the guards. If you make any big movements, even just for a moment, you'll quickly be caught. You must cautiously, carefully, and quietly carry out the scrolls...! But don't take too long! Your rivals are also trying to complete this mission. It's a race to get most scrolls! You attach a smart phone to your arm in this new type of action game. The accelerometer will detect your movement.

In Ninja Catfoot and the Covert Action each player put his smartphone on his arm with the furnished tools. They will all compete at the same time to take the more pawn possible, the quickest they can. They should go to the URL catfoot.ninja with their phone where they will access the app necessary to play the game. The movement sensor on their phone will provide them not to go too fast or they will need to stop taking pawns for some time.

The player who takes the more scrolls wins the round. The first player to win three rounds wins the game.

Fafnir

2020-04-13T23:16:53-04:00

Vendor: Oink Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 22.95

Designer	Jun Sasaki
Publisher	Oink Games
Players	2-4
Playing Time	20 mins
Suggested Age	9 and up
Additional Info	294233/fafnir http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/294233/fafnir/forums/63

The chicken "Fafnir" lays two new gems each day, and all the players want to acquire these gems on the off chance that they'll be more valuable than the gems they already hold. Whoever throws away the most gems in a round acquires these two newest gems — but you can't throw away the colors of the gems that Fafnir just laid! No chicken will be impressed by you shaming the gems that you're also trying to acquire!

Once a certain number of stones have been discarded in Fafnir, the round ends, and everyone scores for the gems that they've collected. Gold is worth 1 point each no matter how many have been collected, so go for gold if you want to play it safe. As for the five colors of gems, whichever one appears most frequently is worth 3 points each, while the secondmost frequent color gem is worth 2 points each, and all other gems are worth -1 point each.

Kobayakawa (Oink Games Edition with Metal Coins) (Import)

2019-10-30T12:34:57-04:00

Vendor: Oink Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 34.95

Designer	Jun Sasaki
Publisher	Oink Games
Players	3-6
Playtime	15 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	142325/kobayakawa http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1407282/kobayakawa/reviews

Note: The Game includes both English and Japanese manuals, as well as Metal Coins inside. The box is in Japanese.

Kobayakawa is a game of bluffing and deduction, and the player that ends up with the highest numbered card wins the round. In this stylish new game from Jun Sasaki, components are kept at a minimum - there are only 15 cards and a handful of crest tokens.

Players each start with a random card in hand, and the rest is put in a pile at the center of the table with the first card flipped face up (this card is called the Kobayakawa).

The rules are simple: Each round, players take a turn and either discard their card face up in front of them and take a new one from the deck, or turn a card from the deck to replace the current Kobayakawa. After each player has taken a turn, they each decide if they want to compete for this round by putting a crest token on their card. Players that decided to compete then all reveal their card at once and compare their number.

The player with the highest number wins, but the player that has the smallest numbered card also adds the number of the current Kobayakawa on top of it.

Example:
Kobayakawa: 8
Player A: 9
Player B: Pass
Player C: 15
Player D: 12

Player C has the highest card value (15), but Player A is declared the winner as the results of the lowest card and the Kobayakawa is 17.

Mr. Face

2019-05-23T17:02:32-04:00

Vendor: Oink Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 21.95

Designer	Jun Sasaki
Publisher	Oink Games
Players	3-6
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	9 and up
Additional Info	267945/mr-face http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/267945/mr-face/forums/63

A card with many lines written. You will make your face according to what you drew from it. It can be a self-taken photograph, or it can be made by combining various pieces. Pieces are limited, but depending on your creativity, you can make a look that surprises everyone.
Win it if everyone can hit the subject line! Can you describe your feelings well "face"?

—description from the publisher (translated)

ふくろと金貨 (Moneybags)

2019-02-07T15:41:22-05:00

Vendor: Oink Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 38.95

Designer	Jun Sasaki Yoshiteru Shinohara
Publisher	Oink Games
Players	3-6
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	9 and up
Additional Info	251622/moneybags http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/251622/moneybags/forums/63

In ふくろと金貨 (Moneybags), players try to have the most gold coins, with each player having their own bag filled with some number of brass coins. If you think you have the most coins, you might want to exit the round to keep them as others will try to transfer coins from your bag to theirs!

A Fake Artist Goes to New York

2018-06-25T18:36:56-04:00

Vendor: Oink Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 22.95

Designer	Jun Sasaki
Publisher	Oink Games
Players	5-10
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	135779/fake-artist-goes-new-york http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/135779/fake-artist-goes-new-york/forums/63

エセ芸術家ニューヨークへ行く – which is pronounced as "Ese Geijutsuka New York e Iku" and can be translated as Fake Artist Goes to New York – is a party game for 5-10 players. Players take turns being the Question Master, whose role is to set a category, write a word within that category on dry erase cards, and hand those out to other players as artists. At the same time, one player will have only an "X" written on his card. He is the fake artist!

Players will then go around the table twice, drawing one contiguous stroke each on a paper to draw the word established by the Question Master, then guess who the fake artist is. If the fake artist is not caught, both the fake artist and the Question Master earn points; if the fake artist is caught and cannot guess what the word is, the artists earn points.

Startups

2018-04-18T03:44:31-04:00

Vendor: Oink Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 22.95

Designer	Jun Sasaki
Publisher	Oink Games
Players	3-7
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	223770/startups http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/223770/startups/forums/63

Description from the publisher:

There are six companies that will change the world as we know it! You can be part of their success and be a investor. Try to become rich by making the right decisions!

Only the one biggest investor can get money out of each company. You must try to read the next steps of your rivals and use your capital and your three hidden cards to win against them and become the biggest shareholder!

You have to be lucky in this game but you must also think about your moves and analyze your rivals! You can play this card game with only a few players but also with many!

The Pyramid's Deadline

2018-04-18T03:42:41-04:00

Vendor: Oink Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 24.95

Designer	Jun Sasaki
Publisher	Oink Games
Players	2-6
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	215469/pyramids-deadline http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/215469/pyramids-deadline/forums/63

In ancient Egypt, the king has ordered architects to his side. "Construct a glorious tomb for this eagle, and I will give a reward to whoever has created the largest tomb. Fail to complete the tomb by the time that the eagle dies, however, and it's the death penalty for you on the spot."

Your challenge in The Pyramid's Deadline is to create a tomb larger than any other player's without getting so greedy that you'll be rewarded with death instead. This game combines puzzles, bargaining, and pieces rolled on die that you'll use to build pyramids.

Troika

2018-02-20T02:13:10-05:00

Vendor: Oink Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 21.95

Designer	Jun Sasaki
Publisher	Oink Games
Players	2-5
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	7 and up
Additional Info	240822/troika http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/240822/troika/forums/63

Not far into the future, a stone was found in a star — then more stones were found, and it turns out that if you combine three of these stones in the right way, you create a very valuable jewel. What's more, you can combine them in a different way to create fuel.

In Troika, you are an adventurer who has dreamed of making a fortune, so you've travelled to this star along with other wanderers. Unfortunately, your spacecraft has no more fuel, so while you'd like to create jewels, if you don't also create fuel, you'll die as the richest person at the end of the universe!

In the game, you place all the heptagonal tiles face down on the table, and on a turn you either draw a face-down tile or take a face-up tile that someone returned to the table. You have a hand limit of seven tiles, and within that limit you're trying to collect both three tiles of the same number (to serve as fuel) and three tiles in numerical order (to transform into a gem). If you have no fuel, you can't win the game; of those who do have fuel, the player with the most valuable jewel wins.

Maskmen

2017-06-27T20:40:05-04:00

Vendor: Oink Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 24.50

Designers	Jun Sasaki Taiki Shinzawa
Publisher	Oink Games
Players	2-6
Playtime	20 mins
Suggested Age	9 and up
Additional Info	159581/maskmen http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/159581/maskmen/forums/63

Welcome to the world of Pro Wrestling! You must win at any cost or face the wrath of your sponsors. This year there are 6 new wrestlers debuting, so go out and win some matches!

Over the 4 seasons whomever has won the most points is the winner. In a round, players can play cards or pass on their turn. Players play 1-3 cards on their turn of the same type of Wrestler (that hasn\'t already been played), to help resolve the strength of the wrestler. The faster you get rid of your cards, the better your chances of winning. As soon as you rid your cards you get to take the highest point token available, then the next player to go out gets the next token. Once there is only 1 player remaining, the round ends and that player gets the -1 token.

Kobayakawa (IELLO Edition)

2014-12-23T01:46:00-05:00

Vendor: IELLO
Type: Board Games
Price: 13.95

Designer	Jun Sasaki
Publisher	IELLO
Players	3-6
Playtime	15 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	142325/kobayakawa http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1407282/kobayakawa/reviews

Kobayakawa is a game of bluffing and deduction, and the player that ends up with the highest numbered card wins the round. In this stylish new game from Jun Sasaki, components are kept at a minimum - there are only 15 cards and a handful of crest tokens.

Players each start with a random card in hand, and the rest is put in a pile at the center of the table with the first card flipped face up (this card is called the Kobayakawa).

The player with the highest number wins, but the player that has the smallest numbered card also adds the number of the current Kobayakawa on top of it.

Example:
Kobayakawa: 8
Player A: 9
Player B: Pass
Player C: 15
Player D: 12

Player C has the highest card value (15), but Player A is declared the winner as the results of the lowest card and the Kobayakawa is 17.