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Player Tents for Merchants of Araby. These foldable tents will hide your money from your competitors. Keep them guessing about your wealth while you haggle for the best rate to get into their caravans.
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Each time a caravan is resolved in Merchants of Araby, you'll draw a card to determine which camel is waylayed by bandits and how much each other camel earns.
In addition to the caravans, the products generated by Merchants can be used to pay for other card plays in Merchants of Araby.
In Merchants of Araby, players will often invoke Virtues to gain benefits and teach all those around the best ways to conduct themselves.

Merchants of Araby (2017)

Players
2–5
Best: 4
Playing time
45–90 min
Age
8+
6.36
Average rating
230
Ratings
2.00/5
Weight
#11650
BGG rank
Outside top 5,000
Designer:Jay E. Treat, III
Artist:Zulkarnaen Hasan Basri
Publisher:Daily Magic Games
Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).
Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 9, Luck 3, Interaction 9, Complexity 4, Theme 5
Strategy9.0
Luck3.0
Interaction9.0
Complexity4.0
Theme5.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

Card GameEconomicNegotiationArabianPrint & PlayTradingVariable Player PowersHand ManagementWorker Placement

Overview

Become the wealthiest merchant prince or princess in all of Araby by establishing an entourage of merchants and allies, teaching virtues, summoning djinni, negotiating frequently, and making successful caravan investments.

Objective Be the player with the most coins at the end of the game.

During your turn perform actions such as playing cards, tasking merchants, Starting a caravan, and negotiating with your opponents. These Actions may be taken multiple times and in any order you choose.

Game End The game ends after the fourth round as each round represents one season of a year. The player with the most total coins is declared the winner!

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