FULL REVIEW

Games Magazine – Year's Best Games
John McCallion
December 2003
USA

Are you cunning enough to get something for nothing? All players roll their dice, move their Merchant that number of space, and secretly pick one of their three permanent action cards. If two players pick the same card, they must offer each other increasing values of gems for the privilege of playing it. When three of more choose the same card, nobody plays it! The three Actions are: Gemstones, which get you the number and color of gems depicted on your Merchant’s space; Points, which earn you the number of of points shown on that space, and Roll, which lets you move you Merchant by a die roll. A Merchant that completes an entire lap of the board ends a round, and prompts a scoring. Earn points for having the most or second most gems of each color, and for completing a lap; then return half of your scoring gems to supply. Most points wins after three rounds. Entertaining proof that great minds should not try to think alike!

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