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CENTRAL MARKET

Carrots instead of tomatoes

You are a trader with a stall in the Central Market and try to attract customers, but of course your competitors have the same idea and try to succeed with the best price or dirty tricks.

In each round you display several different vegetables for sale and compete for the best price. Offering the best price gives you an advantage with customers you can sell your planned amount first. But there are limits for total amounts that can be sold, so you must offer a good price to be able to sell for profit at all. Profit is changed into victory points and you win with most of those.

Seven rounds comprise three phases each: In the delivery phase each player is given four product cards from the stack. In the sales phase in turn you choose and name a product without playing a card and bids a price; all other players must pass, if they do not own the product or do not want to sell in this round, or they bid a brice which must be lower than any already bid so far, but only if they own the product.

Then the product is sold by all who are able to, for an income that equals kilos times price bid with adhering to limits; each product can only be sold once per round and only a total of 10 kilos per product and 10 kilos of products per players in a round. Each player can use three action cards during the game - tourists cancel limits, Rotting halves product amounts and Cheating allows you to bid without holding the product.

Central Market is a sophisticated auction game which demands a lot of tactic and a nose for the right moment, because three action cards are used much faster than you think!

Players: 3-5

Age: 8+

Time: 45+

Designer: Edgars Zakis

Art: Linda Årende

Price: ca. 12 Euro

Publisher: Brain Games 2012

Web: www.braingames.com

Genre: Auction Game

Users: With friends

Version: multi

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Sophisticated auction mechanism

Limits demand intense consideration of bids

Simple basic rules

Compares to:

All auction games with several valid bids

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 1

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0