Kindoro

Kindoro is a ladder-climbing (shedding) game by designer Kenichi Kabuki, known for 535 and Brokies. You play a daring safe thief trying to crack difficult vaults by aligning three dial numbers under specific conditions. Cracking the safe is only part of the job, the real challenge is grabbing the treasure and escaping before the others do.

You play cards from your hand either as a single card or as a three-card play, or pass to draw a card from the field or the deck. Three-card plays can be consecutive numbers, which must follow the current UP/DOWN restriction, or identical numbers, which can ignore that restriction and be played to any valid field position. You score by emptying your hand, by creating consecutive-number arrangements, and by creating sets of identical numbers on the field: a mix of shedding, hand management, timing and tactical interference.

Whoever cracks the most safes and keeps getting away will be praised as the legendary "safe thief of the century."

• 2 to 5 players
• 25 minutes
• Ages 8 and up