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Port of Piraeus

Buy, sell, bid

In the harbor of Piraeus players are merchants from foreign countries who want to earn money by buying and selling goods. The game comprises eight trading days and on each day you choose if you want to buy or sell, prices fluctuate.

In the phase Start of the Day three Greek goods are placed beneath the price table. In the phase Planning of the Day all players secretly choose the Buy or Sell side of their marker and reveal them simultaneously. No prices are adapted accordingly – for more sellers the price per goods unit drops by 1 Drachma, for more buyers it increases, in case of a tie the prices of goods on offer increase, those of other goods fall. In the phase Displaying the Goods each seller chooses maximum two goods of his country and places them face-down above the price table. Then goods are revealed and prices again adapted, they drop by 1 Drachma per good on offer and increase for each good not on offer by one Drachma per seller! In the Phase Negotiating and Selling each buyer places his marker in one of the trade rows on the price table. When only one marker sits on a card, the owner buys it for the current price. When there are several markers, all those involved make a bid. In case of identical bids the card is not sold. In The Phase End of Day all remaining foreign goods are sold to the bank, Greek goods go back to storage.

Port of Piraeus offers a surprisingly challenging and realistic simulation of buying and selling, using very simple rules and offering quite some tactic and strategy, all in all a compact, attractive and very well-working game, easily accessible and with lots of in-game depth.

Players: 3-6

Age: 12+

Time: 60+

Designer: Andrey Alexandrov

Artist: Konstantin Porubov, Ilya Panfilov

Price: ca. 15 Euro

Publisher: Gaga Games 2015

Web: www.gaga-games.ru

Genre: Economics, trade, auction

Users: With friends

Version: multi

Rules: en ru

In-game text: no

Comments:

Attractive components

Simple, concise rules

Lots of in-game depth

Excellent trade simulation

Compares to:

All economics games with variable prices and auction

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 1

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0