{"id":676,"date":"2012-05-01T14:10:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T14:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/?p=676"},"modified":"2017-01-24T21:16:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T21:16:46","slug":"china-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/blog\/2012\/05\/01\/china-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"China Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Il \u00e9tait une fois, dans la lointaine Chine, un canard mandarin qui \u00e9tait tr\u00e8s triste. Il ne savait quel cadeau offrir \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9lue de son c\u0153ur, et se laissait flotter en sanglotant sur l\u2019\u00e9tang. Une nuit de pleine lune, les grenouilles le virent passer et s\u2019\u00e9tonn\u00e8rent de sa tristesse \u201cJoli canard mandarin, lui demand\u00e8rent-elles, pourquoi pleures-tu?\u201d. \u201cJe suis triste, r\u00e9pondit-il, car je suis amoureux, mais je ne sais quel cadeau offrir \u00e0 ma belle pour lui avouer mon amour.\u201d \u201cPourquoi ne pas lui faire un beau bouquet de n\u00e9nuphars?, propos\u00e8rent les grenouilles. Nous allons t\u2019aider.\u201d Et les petites grenouilles pass\u00e8rent le reste de la nuit \u00e0 choisir dans l\u2019\u00e9tang les plus beaux n\u00e9nuphars, chacune cherchant \u00e0 confectionner pour l\u2019amie du canard mandarin le plus beau bouquet.<\/p>\n

Qu’est-ce que l’on irait pas inventer pour justifier le th\u00e8me d’un jeu finalement assez abstrait….<\/p>\n

Fleur de Lotus, l’une de mes premi\u00e8res cr\u00e9ations, \u00e9tait dans mes cartons depuis les ann\u00e9es quatre-vingt. En des temps lointains, j’avais \u00e9t\u00e9 impressionn\u00e9 par le jeu de David Parlett, Le Li\u00e8vre et La Tortue, et j’ai voulu, moi aussi, concevoir un jeu dont les r\u00e8gles simples et le th\u00e8me familial, presque enfantin, cache de redoutables subtilit\u00e9s tactiques. Fleur de Lotus est donc un jeu de parcours simple, qui se joue en une vingtaine de minutes, mais dans lequel le hasard n’a pas sa place. Point de li\u00e8vres et de carottes, point de tortues et de salades, mais des grenouilles et des n\u00e9nuphars.<\/p>\n

Chaque joueur a donc trois grenouilles qui sautent de n\u00e9nuphar en n\u00e9nuphar pour cueillir les fleurs de lotus, aux multiples couleurs, dont elles font la collection. Le lotus bleu est le plus recherch\u00e9, le lotus noir porte malheur. Toute la subtilit\u00e9 du jeu vient du d\u00e9placement des grenouilles, qui sautent par dessus leurs cong\u00e9n\u00e8res et peuvent parfois aller tr\u00e8s vite, et des r\u00e8gles esth\u00e9tiques qui r\u00e9gissent les bouquets de fleurs de lotus. Si les r\u00e8gles, simples, sont \u00e0 la port\u00e9e d’un enfant de sept ou huit ans, les plus \u00e2g\u00e9s d\u00e9couvriront vite les finesses tactiques d’un jeu plus taquin qu’il n’en a l’air.<\/p>\n

Une premi\u00e8re \u00e9dition en boite, avec de mignonnes grenouilles de caoutchouc, est parue en 2003 chez Jeux Descartes. Le jeu, \u00e9puis\u00e9, n’a pas \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9imprim\u00e9 mais une version avec un plateau l\u00e9g\u00e8rement raccourci en est paru en 2008, en anglais, dans le recueil des “15 meilleurs jeux de soci\u00e9t\u00e9 du monde” (rien que \u00e7a!) publi\u00e9 par l’\u00e9diteur am\u00e9ricain de livres pour enfants Klutz.<\/p>\n

China Moon<\/strong><\/span>
\n Un jeu de Bruno Faidutti
\nIllustr\u00e9 par Vincent Dutrait (1986)<\/span>
\n 2 \u00e0 5 joueurs \u2013 30 minutes<\/span>
\n Publi\u00e9 par Eurogames (1996), Klutz (2008)<\/span>
\nTric Trac<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Boardgamegeek<\/a>
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Once upon a time, in far-off China, there was a mandarin duck. He wanted to offer his beloved a special gift, to declare his love for her, but he didn’t know what to get her. This made him so sad that all he could do was to float, sobbing, in his pond. One night, when the moon was full, the frogs that shared his pond heard his cries of despair. “Oh, beautiful mandarin duck”, they asked him, “why are you crying?”. “I am sad”, he answered, ” because I am in love but I don’t know what gift to offer my sweetheart in order to properly declare my love to her”. “Why don’t you make her a beautiful bouquet of lotus flowers?”, suggested the frogs. “We will help you”. And the little frogs spent the rest of the night in a loony game of leapfrog, hopping from lily pad to lily pad, gathering the most beautiful lotus flowers from the pond, each one trying to outdo the other by creating the most beautiful bouquet of all for the mandarin duck’s beloved.<\/em><\/p>\n

OK, it’s a bit of an artificial and pasted on theme….<\/em><\/p>\n

Flower of the Lotus was one of my very first creations, and the first prototypes date from the late eighties. In these old times, I had been very impressed by David Parlett’s Hare and Tortoise, and I also wanted to design a game with simple rules, with a family, almost childish, theme, but with deep tactical subtleties. Thence, Flower of the Lotus is a very simple race game that lasts half an hour, but it is also a game with no luck at all. No Hares and carrots, No Tortoises and lettuces, but Frogs and water lilies.<\/em><\/p>\n

Each player controls three frogs, who jump from one water lily to another and try to pick the nice lotus flowers, with their pastel colors, and gather them in bouquets. The blue lotus is much sought after, while the black lotus is supposed to bring bad luck. All the subtleness and depth of the game is due to the frog movement – they can jump one over another – and the bouquet making rules. The rules of this game are very simple, and can be easily explained to a seven or eight year old, but older players will also discover that the game has hidden depth and makes for many tactical choices.<\/em><\/p>\n

A first edition of the game was published by Eurogames in 2003. It went oout of print and a new version, with a slightly shorter board, was published by Kluts in 2008, in a large children book modestly entitled “the 15 best boardgames in the world”.<\/em><\/p>\n

China Moon<\/strong><\/span>
\n A game by Bruno Faidutti
\nArt by Vincent Dutrait (1986)\u00a0 <\/span>
\n 2 to 5 players \u2013 30 minutes<\/span>
\n Published by Eurogames (1996), Klutz (2008)
\n<\/span>Boardgamegeek<\/a><\/p>\n

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