Bossarino 2023

Move each other's five hidden pieces to find and eliminate the opponent's boss, or sneak your own boss away.

Bossarino ボスサリーノ is a 2 player deduction game from Japan. The game is packaged in a small plastic can (or standard card box), with a cloth gameboard (5x5) and ten chips, five for each player. The chips show a mafia boss, a pair of goons and a pair of innocent bystander. Players lay out their pieces face-down, hiding which piece is which from their opponent. The goal is to either eliminate the opponent's boss, or get their boss off the other side of the board.

Players take turns either moving pieces one space in any direction, including swapping positions with the opponent's chip, or challenging the opposing chip when they are adjacent.

If the challenge is between a goon or boss and the opponent's goon or boss, the opponent's piece is eliminated (winning the game if it was the boss). If the challenge is between a bystander and a goon or boss, the bystander wins, eliminating the goon/boss whoever's turn it was (winning the game if it was the boss). Alternately, getting the boss off the board through the middle three spaces wins the game too.

--description by user

ボスが去るから"ボスサリーノ！" ・ドラマのような、ドキドキ、ざわつく心理戦を手軽に味わいたい？ 「ボスサリーノ」なら叶えてくれる！ ・空き缶サイズで軽い！簡単なので誰でも遊べる！ ・性格がでたりして笑える！普段大人しいあの人は実は・・・ 「正体の隠されたお互いの５つのコマを互いに動かし、相手のボスを見つけて排除するか、 自分のボスをこっそり逃がしてください。」 めくる瞬間のドキドキ感をお楽しみください。 --description by publisher