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Daruma Otoshi

Game Night
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PLAYERS
1+
DIFFICULTY
SETTING
Indoor
MATERIALS
MEASUREMENTS

Tower typically stacks 4 to 5 disc segments beneath the head piece

HOW TO PLAY
1

Stack the wooden disc segments in a column and place the rounded head piece on top.

2

Hold the mallet and strike the bottom disc segment sharply and horizontally to knock it out from the stack.

3

Aim to remove each disc so the segments above drop straight down without toppling the tower.

4

Work upward through the stack, striking the next lowest disc segment on each turn.

5

If the tower tips over before all segments are cleared, that attempt ends without success.

6

Successfully removing every disc while keeping the head piece balanced on the ground completes the game.