Board games
Samurai
Fantasy Flight Games, 1998
Samurai is a board game published by Fantasy Flight Games in 1998. It is played with 2 to 4 players, from age 10 and in about 30 to 60 minutes.
- players
- 2–4
- minutes
- 30–60
- years
- 10+
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The box
- Publishers
- Fantasy Flight Games, Hans im Glück, 999 Games, Ceilikan Jogos, Descartes Editeur, Edge Entertainment
- Designer
- Reiner Knizia
- Artwork
- Miguel Valenzuela Beltrán, Franz Vohwinkel, 徐昀享 (Xu Yunxiang), 李小娜 (LI Xiaona), 杨静雯 (Yang Jingwen), 谢有鑫 (Xie Youxin), 郭紫颖 (Guo Ziying), 陈杰 (Chen Jie)
- Year of release
- 1998
- Also known as
- Samouraï · Samuraj
About the game
Samurai is a German-style board game invented by Reiner Knizia, distributed by Hans im Glück in Germany and Fantasy Flight in the United States. It won the Deutscher Spiele Preis 4th place award in 1999. A shareware computer version was published by Klear Games in 2003, an iOS version was published by Conlan Rios Games in 2010, and an iOS, Android and Steam version was released in 2025 by Synthetic Mind AB.More from Fantasy Flight Games
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