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Yokai Pagoda

#394127BGG ↗

2023 · 2-5 players · 15min · weight 1.39 · 981 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

BGG raw

ID
394127
Name
Yokai Pagoda
Year
2023
Rank
2859
Min players
2
Max players
5
Playing time
15
Min playtime
10
Max playtime
15
Avg weight
1.3913
Num weights
23
Bayes avg
6.05918
Average
7.53124
Users rated
981
Num owned
2091
Wanting
30
Wishing
344
Num comments
126
Fetched at
Sat May 02 2026 15:54:55 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (2)
Hand ManagementHot Potato
Categories (4)
Abstract StrategyBluffingCard GameFantasy
Description (1837 chars)

A mysterious building rise over the hill, bathed with a crepuscular light. Astonished by the strange aura of the Pagoda, you decide to investigate it. Suddenly, a laugh, a shadow which is not yours and an eye with ominous pretensions turns alive. You have broken the peace of ten powerful Japanese spirits (called Yokai) who rested there! Will you find a way to calm their wrath? A game of Yokai Pagoda is played through 3 rounds, playing always one card per turn, until someone ends the current round. To play a game, you shuffle the 100 number cards (divided by 10 kinds of Yokai, numbered from 1 to 10), lay out two cards face-up to start the two discard piles, then deal seven cards to each player. Place the rest as the Pagoda deck, between the discard piles. When you play card, deal with one of the following effects: Playing the same Yokai or the same number allows you to give someone one card from your hand. With a different Yokai and a higher number you can take one random card from the deck -or- the first face-up card from the opposite dicard pile. With a different Yokai and a lower number you can go on with the round as nothing happened -or- end the current round, but only if you have a total amount of three or less points in your hands. But... you must take only into account the lowest card of each kind of Yokai you have! At that moment, everyone keeps the cards from their hand into a personal reserve. After 3 rounds, the one with less points in their reserve wins but... again you must take only into account the lowest card of each kind of Yokai you have. Try to match the balance between lose cards or keep the exact amount you need to reduce your score when other player ends the round. In Yokai Pagoda, knowing when to give a card, keep playing or end the round makes the difference!

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).

LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)

Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).

LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)

Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.