Mori

Mori is the Latin word for death and the Japanese word for forest. Both of these interpretations are represented in this artwork of this card game.

Mori is a quick-playing trick-taking game that asks players to carefully manipulate their hand of cards by playing tricks and using dice to find their way to the best possible score.

Strategy:

• Use Your Dice Well: It’s in the tagline of the game: “Dice Break The Rules.” Being able to choose not to follo w the lead suit when it’s advantageous to you can be huge! Don’t ignore collecting dice.
• Manipulate the X’s: Having the most X’s is bad: they each count as one negative point. You might be able to feed your x cards to the perceived scoring leader. However, having the second most gives you one point per X! Can you use this to your advantage?
• Holding Onto Cards: Because you score cards left in hand, it can be a fun challenge to try and keep well-scoring cards not be pulled out by the trick-taking rules.