Hanabi rules

Hanabi or Fireworks is a cooperative game for 2 to 5 players, from 8 years old. The players play as fireworkers who have mixed up the rockets for their big fireworks show a few minutes before the launch. They must then help each other to reach a common goal: to make sure that the show goes on as planned.

Game content

• 50 Hanabi cards,
• 3 red tokens,
• 8 blue tokens,
• 5 multicolored cards,
• 1 storage box,
• 1 rule booklet.

Goal of the game.

• Players will have the common goal of making the show a success.
• To do so, they must compose 5 fireworks of 5 different colors (blue, red, green, yellow and white).
• To compose a firework, they must create a sequence of 5 cards (1, 2, 3, 4 and 5) of the same color.

Set up.

• Put the blue tokens on the lid of the box.
• Place the red tokens next to them.
• Arrange the multi-colored cards.
• Shuffle and mix the Hanabi cards.
• Cards are dealt according to the number of players:

• Attention. The player cannot look at his hand; the cards are turned toward his teammates.
• The player with the most colorful clothes starts.
• Play clockwise.

How is a round played?

• It is not allowed to skip a turn.
• The player has the choice of one of the following 3 actions:
  – Give a piece of information,
  – Discard a card,
  – Play a card.
• Attention! It is forbidden to influence a player and make comments during his turn.

Give an information

• This step allows you to give one or more pieces of information to one of your teammates in order to help them advance in the game.
• Take a blue token and place it on the playing surface.
• The information given is about one or more cards that you must clearly point to.
• A given information must concern:
  – Either a color (Example: you have three green cards here, here and here.)
  – Or a number. (Example: you have two 5 cards here and here.)

• The information cannot be about the number and the suit at the same time.
• The information must be complete.
  Example: if the teammate has two 5 cards, you must tell him/her both cards.

• The player can rearrange his hand to better remember the cards for which he has already received information.
• When the blue tokens in the lid are exhausted, you can no longer perform this action.

Discard a card

• Discard a card from your hand in exchange for a new one.
• The discarded card is placed, face up, near the lid of the box.
• The new discarded card cannot, of course, be looked at.
• Discarding a card returns a blue token to the box lid.
• A player can at any time, look at the discard pile.
• If all the blue tokens are already in the lid, you cannot perform this action.

Playing a card

• The player can play one of the cards in his hand.
• The card is placed, face up, in front of him.
• The played card can:
  – Start or complete a firework display,
  – Not complete a firework.

• When a card does not complete or start a firework, it is discarded and a red token is placed in the box lid.
• Any card played is then replaced by drawing a new one.

How do you create a firework display?

• There is only one color per firework.
• A firework must be composed of a sequence of 5 cards placed in ascending order.
• When a player manages to create a firework, he puts 1 blue token back into the lid without having to discard a card.
• If all the blue tokens are already in the lid, he loses this bonus.

End of the game

• 3 events can end the game:
  – The fireworkers manage to compose 5 fireworks before the deck is exhausted; they win 25 points.
  – The third red token is placed in the lid; the fireworks makers have lost.
  – The deck is exhausted. A last round is organized, at the end of which the points are counted.

The score

• The score of the fireworkers is obtained by adding the highest value of each firework.
  Example : 4 + 2 + 3 + 1 + 4 = 14

Interpretation of the score

• Based on the score obtained, the team’s performance is evaluated according to the reference scale of the international firework’s federation.

Variants

The final bouquet

• The game does not end when the deck is exhausted.
• The game continues until all the fireworkers win (5 fireworks) or lose (3 red tokens in the lid)

Timed choreography

The player, before placing a card to achieve a firework, can announce his color.

• If it is the right color, a blue token is placed on the lid.
• If it is the wrong color, a red token is placed on the lid and the card is discarded.

Avalanche of colors

• Add the 5 multi-colored cards to the deck.
• This is a color in its own right.
• You must now complete 6 fireworks instead of 5.

The maximum score increases from 25 to 30 for a divine performance.