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Mercado

Goods, perfumes and privileges

As a wealthy Burgher you buy items and with them prestige, perfumes give you advantages and market tiles give privileges and joker coins. A display of four goods, two perfumes and two market tiles is prepared, as is the scoring board with a starting token, draw piles for perfumes and goods and the stock of joker and counterfeit coins. Coins come in four colors, plus white ones for jokers, black ones for counterfeit. Every player has starting money in his bag, a person board and a seal.

As active player, you can resolve a privilege and must then either 1. draw three or - by discarding one seal - five coins from your bag, counterfeit coins go to your person board - and place it with a goods, perfume or market tiles, and add at least one to a tile in the display, or 2. put all coins on your person board back into your bag.

If you are first to meet the price for an item, you receive its prestige and resolve additional effects of the acquired tile - you can receive an additional turn or a joker coin, counterfeit, privilege or seal or can give a counterfeit coin back; your coins go to your personal board, eventual joker coins go back to stock. All other players take their deposits back into their bags. Whoever has the second-most coins at the resolved tile, receives a seal. If someone reaches the starting slot on the scoring track, you win, at the end of the round, with most prestige plus remaining seals and privileges.

A very sophisticated open-intention game with visible progress; counterfeit and forces use of joker coins for some tiles are additional attractive mechanism details in a sophisticated and challenging family game.

Players: 2-4

Age: 10+

Time: 30+

Designer: Rüdiger Dorn

Art: Fiore GmbH

Price: ca. 35 Euro

Publisher: Kosmos 2018

Web: www.kosmos.de

Genre: Open auction, collecting

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Interesting open-intention mechanism

Coin colors are a sophisticated detail

Rather easy rules

Double-sided scoring board

Compares to:

Buying games with open bids

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 1

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0