Space Cowboys | Jaipur 2nd Edition | Board Game | Ages 10+ | 2 Players | 30 Minute Playing time

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Setup involves dealing each player five cards and dealing 3 camels (more on them later) and 2 other good cards to the common face-up market. Any camels in your hand are immediately placed down in front of you to form your herd, which is going to come in handy. In turn, you can take cards from the market or sell cards from your hand. Jaipur does nothing to try to hide what type of game that it is. It is first and foremost a set collecting game. The objective of the game is to acquire cards of the same suit/color. Once you have acquired enough cards of the same color you can then sell them for tokens which will act as victory points at the end of the round. Anyone that has ever played a set collecting game before should already be quite familiar with these mechanics. The overall framework of the game may be similar to most set collecting games, but Jaipur has some interesting twists to how you acquire and sell cards.

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The biggest decision is determining how big of sets that you want to sell. In theory you want to acquire five or more of the same set as you can then get more tokens as well as a more valuable bonus token. You also have to consider the available tokens though. The tokens are arranged where the most valuable for each type are the first tokens taken. Therefore the faster you sell goods of a type the higher the likelihood that you will get the most valuable tokens. There is a benefit to collecting more cards of a type, but you don’t want to take too much time or your opponent could slide in and take the most valuable tokens for that good. This makes the selling mechanic really interesting as you try to read the other player to figure out what they plan on doing. There’s a bonus for the player with the most camels at the end of each round, so try not to let your opponent get ahead! Camel Up! – The player with the most camels gets five points, plus camels are useful. Camels give you the option for big plays, you can switch in new goods without it costing you any goods from your hand. You can do a big sale, then on your next turn brings in a whole new set of cards ready for another sale. If your opponent doesn’t take them on their turn, then rinse and repeat. Drawing from the market gives you choices: add a single goods card from the market to your hand, add all camels from the market to your herd, or take more than one goods card from the market and replace with an equal number of your existing goods/camels in any combination. Your hand can never exceed 7 cards, though there is no limit to the number of camels in your herd. Selling To WinI personally think one of the keys to a good board game is keeping it as simple as possible. There really is no need to make a game more complicated than it needs to be. If a mechanic adds more difficulty than enjoyment it should be removed. Jaipur does a really good job in this area. I was honestly surprised by how easy Jaipur was to play. With a recommended age of 12+ I assumed the game wasn’t going to be super difficult, but I thought it would have a few mechanics that would be a little more complicated and thus take some time to fully understand. That is not the case in Jaipur as the mechanics are really straightforward. On your turn you either take cards or sell them. There are some options regarding what cards you take or sell, but there is nothing complicated about the mechanics. You could honestly teach the game to new players within just a couple minutes. I also think you could teach the game to kids a few years younger than the recommended age and they shouldn’t really have any issues with the game. Finally, a player may choose to take all of the camels from the mark and add them to their herd. If they do this, the cards taken from the marketplace are replaced with cards from the draw pile. a b Zimmerman, Aaron; Anderson, Nate; Mendelsohn, Tom (8 December 2017). "Ars Technica's ultimate board game buyer's guide". Ars Technica . Retrieved 12 November 2021.

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Whoever had the most rupees at the end of the round wins. Best of three rounds wins the game. Set-Up All the types of goods are worth different amounts, from valuable diamonds to cheap leather, and more expensive goods are rarer. If you take a card from the market in the middle then you’re also taking a risk: that when its replacement gets drawn could be a high-value card for your opponent to grab. But the alternative is to sell, and it’s best to sell sets, but how can you collect a set without taking cards? Take the goods you want from the market into your hand and exchange them with goods from your hand and/or your camel herd. You many never finish with more than seven cards in your hand. Opponents vie to become the richest merchant in a best-of-three competition. You do this by collecting sets of commodities using cards from the common market, then trading them in for rupees. The more you have, the more you can earn. But don’t hang around too long or you might miss your chance. Cards will either represent camels or one of six goods. From a central market of five cards, you will be taking either any one card, all the camels, or exchanging any number of cards. When you sell, you will take matching tokens for each good that you sell. Good tokens start off more valuable and decrease in value as the game goes on. But on any one turn, you may only sell one type of good, and if it’s one of the most valuable, you must sell a minimum of two cards. Also, if you sell three or more cards, you will earn a bonus scoring token.

Jaipur 2nd Edition is a tight, fast, and clever game with lots of great decision-making. You will find yourself battling the same person over and over to settle once and for all who really is worth the most camels! Jaipur has continued to be a popular game with recommendations into 2020 [4] [5] as well as being part of the Mind Sports Olympiad 2020 competition. [6] Honors [ edit ]