Kahuna (1998)

Originally published in 1997 as Arabana-Ikibiti by the designer's own publisher Bambus Spieleverlag, then reprinted by Funagain in the U.S., Kosmos' Kahuna – part of its Kosmos two-player series – is the best known implementation of this design.

In this simple two-player game, players use cards to place or remove bridges from a collection of islands. If you get the majority of bridges around an island, you place one of your marker stones on it and also remove any of your opponent's bridges to that island – which might cause them to lose a bridge majority on an adjacent island and lose a marker stone there. The Kosmos edition has excellent graphics and nice wooden pieces and plays very well.

Reimplements:

• Arabana-Ikibiti

Reimplemented as:

• Kanaloa

Awards

• 1999 Spiel des Jahres Recommendation.
• 2000 Golden Ace, (Game of the Year, France) Winner

Online Play

• Yucata (turn-based)
• YourturnMyturn (turn based)
• Jij bent (turn based)
• http://www.brettspielnetz.de (turnbased, German) direct link
• Board Game Arena (real-time)
• Feuerteufel. Dutch website supporting live play and asynchronous play-by-web (but no notification emails). For non-Dutch speakers/readers, using Google Translate (e.g., with Google Chrome or with the Google Toolbar in Firefox, or even through translate.google.com) works pretty well!

Microbadges

Components:

• 1 rule book
• 1 game board illustrated with 12 islands
• 20 Kahuna stones (10 black and white)
• 24 cards (2 for each island)
• 50 Kahuna magic bridge stick tokens (25 in black and white)