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2013 Ranked #8,409

Samurai Gardener

A tile-laying game has players arrange landscape cards to build long matching areas in Japanese gardens. Overlapping tiles can reshape rows and columns, creating scoring opportunities throughout construction.

Abstract Strategy Real-time Tile Placement Mechanism: Partially overlapping cards

Players

2-5

Play time

Not listed

Age

6+

Complexity

1.5/5

Rating

6.15

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Samurai Gardener — first published as Edo Yashiki — is a tile-laying game with an historical Japanese theme in which players try to construct as impressive gardens as possible. Each card consists of six sections of several types of areas (pond, floor, garden, etc.).

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Samurai Gardener — first published as Edo Yashiki — is a tile-laying game with an historical Japanese theme in which players try to construct as impressive gardens as possible. Each card consists of six sections of several types of areas (pond, floor, garden, etc.). Players lay the cards side by side or overlapping in order to create long rows of the same area type. Each round, rows/columns of the same area type are awarded points, and the player with the most points when all building cards are depleted wins.

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Play and group

Players
2–5
Best with
2–4
Play time
15 min
Age
6+
Complexity
1.5/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Hisashi Hayashi

Artists

2
Kevin Hong Ryo Nyamo

Publishers

4
HT Publishers Japon Brand OKAZU Brand Osprey Games

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