翡翠の商人 (Jade Merchant)

BGG Geek Rating
5.5
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BGG Average Rating
6.0
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BGG Ranking
#22177
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Players
2-5
Weight
1.00/5.00
Playtime
20 min
Age
10+

⚙️ Game Mechanics

How this game works - core systems and player actions

📖 About This Game

In 翡翠の商人 (Jade Merchant), players are the heads of trader caravans who try to accumulate the most valuable goods like gold, spices, and jade. Each round, they have to outbid each other backwards so that the least greedy one may choose the first cards of the current pool; more specifically, each player in turn declares how many cards they want to take, and whoever declares the smallest number takes that many cards. (A player can declare 0.5 less than the number they want to take, and if they do so, they return one card from their hand to the center.) The remaining players then bid for the rest of the cards, with this process repeating until each player takes cards. Each treasure has its own scoring rules depending on how many you have or how they combine with other cards in your collection. After resolving all cards this way, the player with the highest value of goods wins.