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Kairo

BAzaar, CUstomers and Stalls

Traders set up their stalls in the Cairo Bazaar and lure customers to their stalls; each customer brings money which is used to expand a stall or set up a new one. You can either draw two cards - a stall card or a market barker card - or move a customer to a stall in his color or play a stall card and set up a new stall, expand a stall or move blocked stall, all according to detailed rules. If you move a customer you can play a market barker card in order to lure the customer past one or two stalls, so that - preferably - he ends up at your own stall. If you are the owner of the stall the customer visits, you earn a coin for each tile in the stall, if it is somebody else's stall you earn one coin in commission. Then the customer leaves the board and is replaced with the customer waiting off the board to enter the board. For a stall expansion you pay the cost and earn victory points; when you have the biggest stall of a color you take both the gold and silver medal; should a player tie you for biggest stall he gets the silver medal. When all expansions of one color have been used or all but one in two of the colors, you can only build new stands from now on. When nobody can build anymore, you get victory points for your medals and money and win with the highest total of VPs.

Kairo is a sophisticated game with many tactical possibilities, maybe a bit too demanding for a family game, at least for players of the given age. The choice to block a stall and those force the owner to relocate introduces lots of depth, as does the frequent moving of customers to achieve numerous color changes.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 45+

Designer: Kimmo Sorsamo

Artist: Oliver Schlemmer

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: Queen Games 2012

Web: www.queen-games.de

Genre: Tile and pawn placement

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: en es fr nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very nice design

High quality components

Needs some playing experience to plumb all possibilities

Compares to:

Tori, Competo

Other editions:

German language edition

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0