The story
Fiction and adapted settings written by Akitsora Gaming for this title, including invented dialogue and events. This is not a historical or folklore reference. The rules and specification tables define the gameplay and math.
On the cypress workbench of an old Kyoto sweet shop, the twelve compartments of a lacquer box wait empty.
Outside the window, a green white-eye perches on a branch in the morning light.
I. An Empty Lacquer Box in the Sweet Shop
Behind the linen noren curtain of a traditional Kyoto confectionery, the warm aroma of steamed white bean paste and toasted rice fills the quiet workshop. On the scrubbed cypress counter rests a glossy black-and-vermilion lacquer box divided into twelve neat compartments — four columns across and three rows deep — while a songbird watches from the garden branch outside.
In Japanese tea culture, handcrafted nerikiri sweets capture the passing seasons in miniature form before a single word is spoken. On this ways-to-win board, each delicate Seasonal sweet acts as a wild symbol alongside whisked matcha bowls, bamboo whisks, and folded tea papers.
II. Kuromoji Picks and Botamochi Surprise
Every fine sweet is served with a fragrant wooden Kuromoji pick, carved by hand with a strip of dark bark left intact for rustic elegance. And during regular play in the workshop, good fortune sometimes drops right off the shelf in the spirit of the old proverb: a sudden Botamochi.
Whenever plump adzuki-covered botamochi sweets land on the compartments of the lacquer box, each one carries a multiplier of its own. Any winning way that passes through a botamochi cell is multiplied by its value, and ways crossing several botamochi multiply their values together on that spin.
III. Twelve Months of Hand-Shaped Sweets
Gather enough Kuromoji pick scatters on a single spin and the calendar turns to January for the Twelve Months feature. Each spin represents one month of the traditional lunar calendar: young pine for January, a snow rabbit for February, a peach bud for March, all the way through autumn maples to the winter camellia of December.
With every month that passes, the master confectioner places that month's signature Seasonal sweet wild into the next compartment of the lacquer box and holds it in place for the remainder of the year. By the late autumn and winter months, the box is brimming with locked wilds on every spin.
IV. Closing the Lid for Pine, Bamboo, and Plum
Once December's sweet fills the final compartment, the master sets the lid over the completed box and brings out a row of tied gift boxes for the Pick-and-match finale. You open the boxes at your own pace — never rushed or chosen automatically — until three matching emblems award the Plum, Bamboo, or top Pine prize.
A warm bowl of whisked green tea completes a full year of confectionery craftsmanship as the garden bird chirps outside the window. Filling the twelve compartments is the story's gentle climax, not a promise: every spin's outcome is still decided independently by the RGS random number generator.