Jaipur

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Player Aid Author: Jarrod Moore

Description

Trade and sell goods to become the most wealthy merchant in this short game for two.

  • Place 3 camels face-up between the players
  • Shuffle the remaining cards and deal 5 cards to each player
  • Place the remaining deck face-down as a draw pile
  • Take the first two cards from the deck and place them face-up next to the 3 camels to form the market
  • Players remove any camels in their hands and place them in a stack in front of them. This forms the player's herd
  • Sort the tokens by type and in descending value
  • Spread out tokens so that players can see all tile values
  • Sort bonus tokens by type. Shuffle each type separately, then form 3 piles
  • Set up tokens in the following order:
    • Diamonds
    • Gold
    • Silver
    • Bonus token stacks
    • Cloth
    • Spice
    • Leather
  • Put the 3 seals of excellence in players' reach
  • Select a starting player

The game plays over 3 rounds, where each round consists of a series of turns taken back-and-forth between the two players. On your turn, you will do one of two things:

  • Take Cards
  • Sell Cards

At the end of your turn, you are not allowed to have more than 7 cards

When you take cards, you must choose one of the following:

  • Take several goods:
    • Place the same number of cards from your hand back into the display to replace the cards you took
    • The returned cards can be camels, goods or a combo of the two
  • Take 1 good:
    • Take it into your hand and replace it with the top card of the deck
  • Take all of the camels into your herd:
    • Replace the taken cards with cards from the deck

When you sell cards, you choose one type of good and discard as many cards of that type as you like:

  • Sell as many cards of a single type as you want
  • Take as many tokens of the matching type as the number of cards discarded, starting with the "top" token of the spread stack
  • If you sell more than 3 cards, take a bonus token matching the number of cards sold:
    • Take the 5 cards token for any sale containing 5 or more cards
  • When selling diamonds, gold and silver, you must sell at least 2 cards at a time

The end of the round occurs when one of two things happens:

  • 3 types of goods token are depleted
  • There are not cards left in the draw pile

The round is then scored as follows:

  • The player with the most camels in their herd gets the camel token, which is worth 5 rupees
  • Both players turn their received tokens over and add up the total value
  • Whoever has the most rupees is the winner of the round:
    • The winner of a round gets a Seal of Excellence token
    • Tiebreakers are:
      • Player with the most bonus tokens
      • Player with the most goods tokens

The game ends when a player has received two Seals of Excellence!

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