Reflection #7

          I looked into other countries using hanafuda and I found that Korea has their own version of this card game. The name of their version is Hwa-tu which means “flower cards” in Korean, but they are more reffered to as Godari or Go-stop. They are pretty similar but there are some differences:

-          -The five bright cards have a small yellow or white circle in one corner. Printed on the circle is the chinese character guang which means “light, bright”.

-        -  The ribbons in Hanafuda are usually purple while in Go stop they are blue

-        -  The text on the the ribbons are in korean characters hung-dan (read ribbon). The purple ribbons are replaced chung –dan (blue ribbon) that also don’t have andy writing on them.

-      -    Go-stop usually have extra cards than hanafuda which usually are bonus cards that can be grouped to make more combinations. their deck ends up being 48 suit cards plus and extra of 6 cards.

The shuffling of these cards are the same. When it comes to dealing out the cards each player ends up having 10 cards in their hand while the in hanafuda you have 8. As for gameplay the concept of trying to match cards, one from your hand and one  that is drawn from the faced down pile.  Some of the rules are different though. If a card drawn from the top of the draw pile matches two cards then the three cards remain on the table. The three cards remain on the table untill the player collects them with the fourth card. If a player draws a card the matches a discarded card then they take both cards and a junk card from eack opponent. If they get 3 cards of the same month then they double their points for every set of 3 they have. Or they can collect all 4 cards  when the fourth card is on the table as well as a junk card. If a player draws a bonus card from the draw pile during their regular turn, they will automatically collect it along with any other cards matched during that turn, except in the event that there is a set of three cards on the table,  in which case all four cards must remain on the table