About Hanafuda
What Hanafuda is
Hanafuda by Tamaki is an Okinawa-rules card game. The deck is the flower cards of the twelve months. You play a card from your hand, capture a card of the same month when one is on the table, then draw from the mountain and play that card the same way.
Objective
The highest score wins. Points come from the cards you capture and from any yaku you hold at the end of the round. A round score can be negative. Scores add up from round to round. Before the first deal, play to 500 points, 1000 points, 5 rounds, 10 rounds, or with no limit. A point goal is checked when the round ends. A tie stands.
How a round works
Player 1 leads the first round, then the lead passes to the next player. On your turn, play one card. If a card of the same month is on the table, you capture it. If two match, you choose one. If three match, you take all three. If nothing matches, the card stays face up. Then draw from the mountain and play that card the same way. Your hand stays face up. Everyone else plays from a closed hand. The round ends when every hand is empty. If the mountain is empty, there is no draw.
How scoring works
Each scoring card shows its points. Crane, Curtain, Moon, Rainman, and Phoenix are 20. Bush warbler, Cuckoo, Bridge, Butterflies, Boar, Geese, Sake, Deer, and Swallow are 10. Every tanzaku is 5. Kasu, Lightning, and the Paulownia Flower are 0. Captured cards worth points stay in your claim. Captured cards worth 0 go to your kasu pile. At the end of the round, each yaku you hold is paid 20 points by every other player. The yaku are Boar, Deer, and Butterflies; Three Red Tanzaku; Three Blue Tanzaku; and Three Poetry Tanzaku. Cards left on the table or in the mountain score nothing.
Number of players
Hanafuda seats two to seven players. The deal changes with the table: two players each get eight cards, with eight face up, and seven players each get three, with six face up. Local play fills the open seats with bots. Online, each person joins the room on their own device.
Strategy
When two cards of the month are face up, take the one worth more points. A yaku pays 20 from every other player, so the same set is worth more at a full table than it is with two. A 20-point card in your claim is worth as much as one of those payments.
Local and online play
Play on this device against bots. Online, the host opens a room and shares a code. No account is required. The Android app shows ads, and a one-time purchase in Google Play removes them.
Where to play
Play in the browser at hanafuda.tamakitech.com, or install Hanafuda on Google Play.