Kiitos Board Game - How to play. By Stella & Tarrant. A Kickstarter Preview

ketose means thank you in Finnish and that's what you need to say when your opponent's finishes your word for you do you want to learn how to play kills in this video we're going to take you through the full rules for this game and if you stay tuned till the end you can pick up some tips along the way coming up [Music] hi it's Tarrant and Stella from people in diversity now let's get to the rules for ketose game by Matthew thread goal published by Ludo Jaques ketose is a word game for two to four players in which players will use a handful of letter cards to attempt to spell words or force opponents to spell them for them players gain points for having their words spelt and lose them for failing to spell words and the player with the highest score wins to set up place the challenge cards and the three rule cards on the table green side up shuffle the blue letter cards into a stack in your first basic game you'll leave the for seasoning cards in the box these are for a variant then each player cuts the deck and latest in the alphabet goes first deal eight letter cards to each player and you're ready to play to start a round of key toss the first player chooses a card from hand to play onto the table and chooses a target word starting with that letter a target word may be any English word which meets the minimum word length requirements shown on this card except for a proper noun - ated word contraction abbreviation or acronym so let's suppose here that the player chooses the target word direct play then passes to the next player clockwise if the player has the next letter of the target word in hand then the player must take that card and play it into the word play then continues clockwise if the player does not have the next letter of the word in hand then the player may play any other card onto the table and change the target word the new target word must begin with any letters that are already on the table and meet all other basic rules for target words so here the player could change the target word to dimple and announces this the rest of the table the original target word of direct is no longer a part of this round also be aware that when changing the target word the word cannot already be complete so if the fourth player had no P that player could place an Aeon to the table but could not change the target words dime a longer word like dimes or dimension would have to be used play continues in this manner until one of two things occurs the first is that the target word is completed when this happens the player who set that target word not necessarily the one who finished it says key toss the finish word for thank you thanking all opponents for helping to finish that word that player then gathers up all of the letter cards from that word and places them into a face-up pile this is called the positive pile and will be worth positive points the other possibility is that it comes to a player's turn and that player does not have the right letters to continue the target word nor can the player come up with a new legal target word you know for example the second player has no oh and there is certainly no other word in the English language which starts with Hull see when this occurs the active player gathers up all of the cards from the center of the table and then places them into a facedown pile this will be worth negative points at the end of the round after either of these outcomes all players draw back up to eight cards and play then continues with the player who collected the cards whether they were positive or negative setting the new target word the exceptions of this is in the four player game where if a player takes exactly four cards into the negative pile that player may choose to take a fifth random card from the top of the draw deck to force the player on the right to take the first action this gives that player the option to break a cycle of fours at any point a player may challenge the legitimacy of a target word set by an opponent by taking a challenge card by has then check their dictionary to confirm whether or not the word is valid if the word is not valid then the player who said that word takes the challenge card into their negative pile the player then sets a different target word and may retrieve fending letter and play a new one in order to try to set it on the other hand if the target word was valid then the player who issued the challenge takes the challenge card into their negative pile be aware that there is no cue card in the deck this does not stop you from saying a target word containing the letter Q but it will certainly stop you from completing it a round of key toss ends immediately if after resolving a target word there are not enough card left in the draw deck to refill everybody's hand to eight cards once this happens count up your score for the round players score one point for each card in their face up positive piles and lose one point for each card in their face down negative piles including any challenges cards left in hand don't score at all it's not uncommon to finish with a negative score note down your scores and then set up again the same way you did at the start of the game to play the next round whichever player has the lowest score choosers who goes first after three rounds the player with the highest aggregate score wins if tied either play a tiebreaker round or victory is shed the full game of ketose utilizes the reverse sides of these basic rule cards as these give some alternatives to play this card allows you to change the minimum word lengths from four letters to five letters this card lets you change the value of your positive pile from one point per card to two points per card and this card changes the game from ketose to super key toss in super key toss players are no longer limited to spelling a word from left to right now letters may be added to either end of a word when setting the initial target word for the round a player may choose any target word containing the letter played for example playing this F and playing draft if the next player had either an A or a T in hand then the player would be compelled to play one of them only when a player can add neither to the front nor end of the target word does the player change the target word this time by playing either on the front or back and then choosing any word containing that collection of letters such as Snapple a repeating letter sequence opens even more possibilities in this case for the target word banana B or n could be placed at the front or a at the end in the full game whenever a player's word is completed after saying key toss and taking the positive points the player then chooses one of the three rule cards and flips it over to its other side player then takes the lock token and places it on to that rule card the next player to score a ketose must then flip one of the other rule cards moving the lock token over there so that the same card is not flipped twice in a row beside that these two cards are showing on will tell you which rules are in effect at this time and beside that this card lies on at the end of the round will determine whether it is a high or low scoring round the game also comes with for seasoning cards which provide a variant of the game it's recommended you choose no more than one or two of them to mix with the base game when playing with seconds a player who is not setting or changing the target word still must play one card but may optionally choose to play two timed correctly this can be a good way to finish your own words or tráfico nents into the harder letters complete us changes the base rules of the game and allows a player to both change a target word and complete it on the same term this makes it easier for players to complete words and forces players to think more carefully about their word openings when playing with flip the first letter when a new target word is started is flipped randomly from the deck rather than coming from the starting players hand the starting player sees this letter and then chooses the target word based on what was flipped and when playing with squeezed in when a player is changing the target word the player may slide the new letter in between existing letters without rearranging here for example changing the target word from money to monkey all of these provide a wide range of variability into the tactics of how to play a game which is ultimately about recognizing letter combinations in different words and that's how to play kiito's we hope that you enjoy the video and we hope that you enjoy playing at the time of filming ketose is about to be launched on Kickstarter so we'll put the link in the description below when it's active so you can check it out if you enjoy this video please help us by hitting the like button subscribe to us you can also hit the me ball in the corner to dessert and hit the bell icon so you'll be one of the festival where we 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