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An abstract strategy game for two players in which you try to line up five rings of your color to win. To start, arrange the four 3x3 tiles randomly in a 6x6 grid. Each cell of the grid has a vertical, horizontal, or diagonal line on it. The first player places one of their rings on an unoccupied space, and the line in that space indicates the direction in which the opponent should place their ring: vertically, horizontally, or diagonally in line with the newly placed ring. If the opponent cannot place a ring in this direction because every square in this line is occupied, then the opponent can place a ring in any unoccupied square. If you manage to place a ring between two opponent's rings, you change the opposite rings to your color. If the board is full and no one has managed to create a row of five rings in their color, the player with the largest orthogonally connected group of rings wins.

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In Namiji you are fishermen from yesteryear who are about to embark on a voyage of discovery of beautiful and wild sea creatures. To win the game, you must have a fruitful day at sea. For this you will have the chance to admire beautiful sea creatures, fish with a line or a net to fill your racks with colorful fish and reel in your crab traps. Aquamarine is the first expansion for Namiji. It includes all the additional goals from the original Kickstarter campaign and a booklet with the rules of the expansion and the stories of the boats. The booklet is also available for download from the Namiji website. Aquamarine adds the vortex and additional creatures to the game. It is an expansion and cannot be played without the base game Namiji.

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In Namiji you are fishermen from Japan of yesteryear, fishing south of the Japanese archipelago, a few kilometers from the famous Tokaido Road. You will need to have a fruitful day at sea to win the game. To do this, you'll have the chance to admire beautiful sea creatures, fish with a line or net to fill your racks with colorful fish, and reel in your crab trap. You can take advantage of stops to improve your fishing equipment, and you will also have to interact with the gods of the sea by launching offerings, or by fulfilling their wishes that they express during your contemplation at the Sacred Rocks, for which they charge you will reward. Namiji has gameplay similar to Tokaido. The action spaces are laid out on the game board in a linear path, with players moving forward on this path to take actions. The player currently last on the track takes a turn by moving forward on the track to their desired action and taking that action, so players must choose whether they want to progress slowly to get more turns, or travel faster to get ahead of other players at their desired action spaces. What players do on the court is different from what they do in Tokaido.

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