Toppen (IMPORT)

This game is in Japanese but is language-independent a pdf copy of the English rules will be provided with the game if they are not included within the box.

バベルの塔 ("Tower of Babel"), also known as TOPPEN, is played with ten tiles — five black and five red — with each player taking one color. During set-up, the second player places the ten tiles face down randomly in a square grid so as to form a continuous shape of their choice. The tiles are flipped color-side up, then the game begins. Taking turns, players take one of their tiles and place it on top of a neighboring tile/stack. The following restrictions apply:

• You can take only one tile, the topmost of a stack.

• You cannot split the tiles into two separate groups.

• You cannot move a tile to an empty space.

If you cannot make a legal move, you must pass until a legal move is available to you again. You cannot pass if a move is available.

The goal is to have your own tile at the top of the last pile remaining when the game ends.