Welcome to the Bazaar of Istanbul! Hustle and bustle in the bazaar district of Istanbul: merchants and their assistants are hurrying through the narrow alleys attempting to be more successful than their competitors. Good organization is key: wheelbarrows have to be filled with goods at the warehouses and then swiftly transported by the assistants to the various destinations.
Welcome to the Bazaar of Istanbul! Hustle and bustle in the bazaar district of Istanbul: merchants and their assistants are hurrying through the narrow alleys attempting to be more successful than their competitors. Good organization is key: wheelbarrows have to be filled with goods at the warehouses and then swiftly transported by the assistants to the various destinations. The goal of the merchants is to be the first to collect a certain amount of rubies. Product Description You are leading a merchant and four assistants through the 16 Places of the bazaar. At each Place, you can carry out a specific action. The challenge is that, to carry out an action at any of those Places, your merchant needs the help of an assistant and has to leave him behind. To use that assistant again later, your merchant has to come back to that Place and pick him up. So plan ahead carefully to avoid being left with no assistants and thus unable to do anything.
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Great game. Quick delivery Great game and it deserves the Kennerspiel it just won. It plays pretty quickly, in an hour or less, even with 5 players. I’ve only played it with 4 or 5. I think 3 would still be a good number but I’m not too sure it would play that well with 2 players. I like the scenarios so you can play it short or long, whatever you have time for. The variable set-up (and I prefer a random set-up) is great because you have to discover the best strategy for each particular lay-out, with the interaction…
A good accessible game about effecient movement. This is a lighter weight action selection/race game played out on a modular board. Tiles are set up either randomly or following one of the suggested layouts in the rulebook into a grid. Players have a stack of assistants topped by their merchant and can move 1 or two spaces orthogonally and take the action of the tile they land on.
Great for 2 players We have been searching for games that play well in a 2 player set-up, but with options for additional players when we have friends over. My wife loves this game. With the game board being adjustable, we can modify it so we don’t get burned out. We have yet to play it with friends yet, but we are looking forward to it.