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ABACUSSPIELE  |  SKU: ABA24191

Tajuto (German Import)

$87.95 CAD
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Description

Designer Reiner Knizia
Publisher ABACUSSPIELE
Players 2-4
Playtime 45-60 mins
Suggested Age 10 and up

Note: This game is in German. English rules can be found here.

In 532, Buddhism arrived in Japan, and took its place alongside Shintoism, which is the official religion. Prince Shotoku, seduced by this new religion, commissioned Buddhist monks to construct a village endowed with an immense garden, in which 8 pagodas ( tajuto) would be erected. He announced that once the fourth tajuto was complete, it would make this city an important pilgrimage destination for all Buddhists around the world. The Buddhist monk who has attained the highest level of Spirituality, through deep Meditation and other mental qualities, at this precise moment will be rewarded, and the Prince will name them "Great Guardian of the Sacred Garden of the Eight Pagodas", and this monk will become the overseer of pilgrimage.

In Tajuto, players take on the roles of the Buddhist monks, trying to achieve the highest spirituality. On their turn, they can activate their action tiles to draw (and build) pagoda tiles from the bag, make offerings to gain meditation points, and acquire tiles that will help them progress more quickly or earn them spirituality points. Activating more than one action tile or acquiring tiles costs meditation points. The game ends once the fourth pagoda is finished. The player with the most spirituality points wins.

The key feature of the game is drawing the pagoda tiles from the bag. The pagoda tiles have a decreasing size per level. Players are welcome to blindly rummage around to try to recognize the floor by its size, but they aren’t likely to be able to detect the color this way, so drawing the floor size they want depends on their tactile recognition, but they have to weigh their odds to draw the color they want.

—description from the publisher

Customer Reviews

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Govind
Give it 2-3 plays

So 1st play of it, it felt very strange as we were barely doing anything, the game let's you do just one thing, draw pieces from the bag. Like many simpler Knizia titles this one's gameplay is revealed after few tries. The initial few turns are simpler, put the base of pagodas and score meditation points. Its when the third-floor comes in that people start using offerings and try to get more meditation points and every action you take might end up benefiting the other player, and around mid game its race to get the best scoring tile and to push your luck with higher floor.

Certainly not in my 10 Knizia games, but it stays in collection for now for the gameplay.