Players take on the role of daring safe thieves attempting to crack difficult vaults by aligning three dial numbers under specific conditions. Opening the safe is only part of the job: the real challenge is grabbing the treasure and escaping before the others. The player who cracks the most safes and repeatedly gets away will be praised as the legendary “safe thief of the century.”

Kindoro is a ladder-climbing game in which players play cards from their hands either as a single card or as a three-card play, or pass to draw a card from the field or deck. Three-card plays can be made as consecutive numbers or identical numbers; consecutive numbers must follow the current UP/DOWN restriction, while identical numbers can ignore that restriction and be played to any valid field position. Players score by emptying their hand, by creating consecutive-number arrangements, and by creating sets of identical numbers on the field, producing a mix of shedding, hand management, timing, and tactical interference. Kenichi Kabuki