
About this product
Build the rainbow. Claim the gold.
A cheerful card game of colourful sequences, clever timing and calculated risk.
Create rainbows, complete pots of gold and use Kobitos as jokers as you race to finish with the highest score.
Product Description
Can you find the gold at the end of the rainbow?
In Kobito, players build colourful rainbows to reach pots of gold. Each pot requires a rainbow of a specific length, but there is a catch: only the player who completes the rainbow wins that pot of gold.
Play cards directly onto shared rainbows or prepare your own rainbows in your personal studio before connecting them to a pot of gold. Preparing ahead can open up more opportunities, but it also brings extra risk because each rainbow in your studio increases the number of cards you must play on your turn.
Rainbow cards must form an unbroken number sequence, while Kobito cards act as jokers and can represent any rainbow card. Replacement cards give you another way to manage the cards in your hand and avoid penalties.
Complete rainbows at the right moment, collect valuable gold cards and keep penalty cards out of your score pile. When the game ends, the player with the most points wins.
View the Kobito Rulebook (PDF)
Why You’ll Love It
- Build colourful rainbows: Connect numbered cards in sequence to reach pots of gold.
- Timing matters: Only the player who completes a rainbow claims its gold card.
- Use your own studio: Prepare rainbows privately before moving them into play.
- Flexible Kobito cards: Kobitos work as jokers and can represent any rainbow number.
- Calculated risk: More personal rainbows give you more options but also increase how many cards you must play.
- Easy group range: Plays with 2–6 players.
Quick Details
- Publisher: Jolly Dutch
- Designer: Robert Brouwer
- Players: 2–6
- Age: 8+
- Play time: 20–30 minutes
- Game type: Card game
- Components: 110 cards
- Rules: Dutch and English
The rulebook credits Robert Brouwer as author, James Churchill as illustrator, Vicky Trouerbach for graphic design and Jolly Dutch as publisher.
Good to Know
- 18 Gold Cards: Each requires a rainbow of a specific length.
- 84 Rainbow Cards: Used to build the numbered rainbow sequences.
- 5 Kobito Cards: Can be used as jokers.
- 3 Replacement Cards: Used together with matching rainbow cards.
- Scoring: Gold cards add points, while each rainbow card left in your personal score pile subtracts 3 points.
- Eco-conscious production: Biodegradable plastic, biodegradable ink and glue, FSC label, production in Europe and CO2 compensation for transport.