Kano (PRE-ORDER)

In Kano, 2 to 4 players compete to create their own Emakimono — traditional Japanese painted handscrolls — by skilfully arranging vibrant paint pots. The game blends tactical resource management with spatial optimisation as players navigate a shared central mat to collect the pigments they need.

Each turn, you make meaningful choices to fill your scroll:

• Swap adjacent paint pots on the central mat to set up the perfect move.
• Take at least one paint pot, or several of the same colour if they’re adjacent in a single row or column.
• Place pots on your board, where they always fall to the lowest available space in a column — so plan your patterns carefully.
• Stay efficient: end a turn with more than four visible paint pots and the excess become scoreless “Cloud” tiles.

Once a pattern is formed, replace your paint pots with beautiful Artwork Tiles:

• Larger artworks score more (a 3-space artwork is worth 7 points).
• Secret Masterpiece cards are worth 12 points each on completion.
• Shifting “Shogun’s Demands” goal sheets reward those who adapt their style each game.

When one player fills their board, a final round of scoring decides the Master Artist.