PLAYED FOR YOU
Chicago Stock Exchange
TradiNG at the StOCK EXCHANGE
For this trading session there is a simple rule: I keep one commodity and I sell one commodity - if you sell you cause falling rates for this commodity. The values for Corn, Coffee, Rice, Sugar and Cacao can be anything from 6 to 0, for Wheat from 7 to 1.
36 commodity discs are shuffled and randomly stacked in 9 stacks, not necessarily of the same height. The trader marker is placed randomly on a stack. As the active player you move the trader one, two or three steps and then take the top commodity from the two stacks adjacent to the trader to the left and right. Of those two commodities you choose one to keep, the other is sold to the bank, that is, simple set down next to the exchange rate board. For the commodity you bought you reduce the exchange rate value by one. The rate for a commodity can only fall, never rise! When there are only two stacks left you add the value of all your commodities according to the current exchange rate and you win with the highest total.
In the expert version you move the trader any number of steps in clock-wise direction, but no further than to the same commodity that you left at the start of the move.
A sophisticated little game, also good for families, but unfortunately with very bad rules, at least for inexperienced players. For instance, you must deduce the starting value for the exchange rate markers from the fact that exchange rates can only fall, despite rate variation being mentioned in the rules, which also indicates rises.
When you have worked your way through the - short - rules, you will be rewarded with a good game that offers challenging entertainment using simplest means.
Players: 2-4
Age: 8+
Time: 15+
Designer: Pak Cormier
Price: ca. 11 Euro
Publisher: 1-2-3-games 2013
Web: www.blueorangegames.eu
Genre: set collection, changing rates
Users: With friends
Version: multi
Rules: de en fr nl
In-game text: no
Comments:
Series "by Cirkle"
Badly written, but simple rules
Very good game with minimalist components
Compares to:
Basically games on stock exchange rates, first game in this combination
Other editions:
Currently none
Chance (pink): 1
Tactic (turquoise): 3
Strategy (blue): 0
Creativity (dark blue): 0
Knowledge (yellow): 0
Memory (orange): 2
Communication (red): 0
Interaction (brown): 3
Dexterity (green): 0
Action (dark green): 0