Hanafuda Flip!! – Surfing Game

Surf the card. Collect the deck. Race your friends.

Hanafuda Flip!! is a free one-thumb surfing game set inside a painted hanafuda card. Launch off the crest, spin into flips and land them clean. Race friends in Rooms of up to eight, nearby over Bluetooth with no internet or anywhere with a code. Every run earns packs of the 48 Japanese flower cards, and packs are never sold.

THE RUN
Runs last about 100 seconds and play offline. Build speed and a crest launches you. Hold left to spin into a backflip or right for a frontflip, then chain doubles, triples and switch flips. Land clean and the points are yours; come down wrong and it's a wipeout. In Hi-Score mode the sea is new every run. Prefer motion controls? Turn on Tilt and spin by tilting your phone.

RACE YOUR FRIENDS
Host a Room for two to eight riders on the same sea, as a straight race or as Surf Royal, where the rider furthest back drops out at each buoy until one is left. Friends in the same place join over Bluetooth with no internet or sign-in; friends anywhere join with the Room's code. Race a real rider's best run head to head, or climb the monthly League from Bronze to Master. Every season you play leaves a medal on your card.

THE DAILY
One sea a day, the same for everyone, with an Easy, a Medium and a Hard challenge. Clear all three in one run for the Daily pack; retries are free. A longer streak raises the pack's odds. Clear the Daily 24 days in a row and its packs bring home all 24 Brights, Animals and Ribbons.

PACKS YOU EARN, NEVER BUY
Every run pays pack points, even a wipeout, and a full meter is a pack. Signed in, you also get a free pack every 24 hours. A pack is five cards in a 3D foil pouch: tilt it, shake it and tear it open with your finger as light leaks out in the color of the best card inside. Any card can come prismatic, about 1 in 50, in a holographic foil that shimmers as you tilt. Packs come only from play, never from money, and the game lists every card's odds.

48 FLOWER CARDS
Hanafuda's 48 cards are twelve months of four, from 24 humble Plains up to 5 rare Brights. The deck's eight traditional yaku, from Red Poems to Five Brights, are the sets, and each one you complete pays a pack and a profile frame. Finish a month to earn its hanko seal. Copies leaf a card's edge silver, then gold, and a gold card you also pull prismatic becomes Ultimate. They fill a linen hardcover book.

FOURTEEN RIDERS
The Moon Rabbit and Tanuki surf with you from the start. Twelve more follow the deck's months, from January's Crane to December's Phoenix. Each Daily you clear in a rider's month is a chance to win it. Riders change who you surf as, never the score.

YOUR CARD ON THE WORLDWIDE BOARD
Compose a profile card from pieces of the cards you collect, with your rider, a frame and a seal. It stands beside your name on one worldwide leaderboard, all-time and weekly. Beat your best and watch your nameplate climb, then tap any row to watch the run behind it, wave for wave.

PLAY ANYWHERE
Hi-Score, the Daily and nearby Rooms play offline with no sign-in. Sign in with Google Play Games to race online and in the League, post your scores and get the free pack.

MADE TO BE COMFORTABLE
A run plays with one thumb, and nothing asks you to type but a Room's code. The game follows your Remove animations setting, and its haptics can be switched off.

ONE OPTIONAL PURCHASE
One purchase unlocks all 14 riders and removes ads. It never buys packs, cards or points. Ads never interrupt a run: watch one by choice to try a locked rider for a run, and an occasional ad plays between runs.

QUESTIONS
Can I play with friends without internet? Yes. Phones in the same place share a Room of up to eight over Bluetooth.
Is it a koi-koi card game? No. You surf, and the hanafuda deck is what you collect.

Hanafuda Flip!! is made by IROIRO, an independent studio.