Onitama Board Game

Description

• Carved into the crags of the mist-shrouded mountains of ancient Japan lies the Shrine of Onitama!
• It is a place of enlightenment and skill, a site dedicated to the spirits that guide the Schools of Martial Arts across the land!
• Masters of these schools hazard the journey to Onitama with their most promising disciples to meet within its hallowed walls and to prove their superiority in battle against the others!
• Players vie to capture their opponent’s Master, or, traverse their Master across the board to their opponent’s Master’s starting position to win the game!

Onitama is an elegant and simple game of martial tactics. A perfect information abstract game with a random starting set-up. On a 5×5 board, both players start with five pawns on their side, with the main pawn in the middle. Each player has two open cards that each display a possible move for any of their pieces. There is a fifth card that cannot be used by either player. On a player’s turn, she chooses one of her cards, moves one of her pieces according to the chosen card, then replaces the card she used with the fifth card. The other player then chooses one of his cards, moves accordingly, and exchanges that card with this fifth card – which is, of course, the card the first player just used. Moving onto one of the opponent’s pawns removes that pawn from the game. Taking the opponent’s main pawn, or moving your main pawn into your opponent’s main pawn’s starting space, wins you the game.

Additional details:
Packaging size: 270mm x 95mm x 95mm
Recommended age: 14+
Number of players: 2