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Game Preview: Edo Yashiki, or Flimsy Cardboard Palaces for All

Game Preview: Edo Yashiki, or Flimsy Cardboard Palaces for All
Board Game: Samurai Gardener
In July 2014, designer Hisashi Hayashi announced that he had left his former job to work on game design on a full-time basis. He credited Trains' recognition by the Origins Award as Best Board Game for encouraging him to move in this direction, but other designs from him have also made the jump from self-publication through his own company OKAZU Brand to new editions in larger markets, including String Railway and Sail to India.

Edo Yashiki is another one of his small self-published titles, with the game coming in a baggie and everything boiled down to a deck of cards and a few tokens. The gist of the game is that you're trying to build an awesome place to live by adding cards to the structure one at a time and making something decent out of the process instead of the hodgepodge you'd get if you tried to do such a thing in real life. Such is the beauty of games as you can get away with magical thinking along these lines...

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