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

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Jaipur is a delightfully simple game to understand. However, before your first game, it may not be explicitly obvious the role that camels play. Or at least, how they can be used effectively. There’s a surprising number of strategies in Jaipur, and you’ll find yourself trying out new approaches as you gain experience – while also learning to respond to an opponent’s style. It’s fast-paced and portable too, which makes it the ideal lunch break or filler game, outside of large groups. There’s limited options each turn, so you’ll never spend much time umming and ahhing over a move and you can easily get in a best-of-three game within half an hour. Each player turns over their collected tokens to add up how many rupees they earned. The player with the most rupees earns a Seal of Excellence. If players are tied, whoever has the most bonus tiles wins the round. If there is still a tie, the player with the most goods tokens wins the round and earns the Seal.

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The round ends the moment three goods token types are gone or the marketplace can be filled with cards from the draw pile. SCORING Jaipur is a good game but I do think it is a little overrated. I had a lot of fun with Jaipur and most people should really enjoy it. I don’t know if it is one of the top 100 board games of all time though which is around where it is currently ranked on Board Game Geek. When I think of games that are in the top 100 of all time I think of games that truly revolutionized the board game industry. Jaipur is good but I don’t think it is that good.After acquiring the cards you have to figure out what you want to do with them. The goods cards are basically acquired so they can be sold for tokens which are worth points at the end of the round. The selling mechanic is pretty basic on the surface. You sell cards of one type and take the corresponding number of tokens. If you sell enough cards at the same time you will receive a bonus token. Where the selling mechanic becomes interesting is that you have a couple different things to consider when selling cards. Players remove any camels from their hand and place them face up on the table in front of them. This pile of camels is called the herd. A player might not start the game with a herd. 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 Win Camels (lovely animals though they are) are useless by themselves in Jaipur, but can be an invaluable resource when you exchange them for the perfect batch of cards. Taking lots of camels at once sets you up for a big play later, but also reveals random goods for your opponents to pursue. Perhaps nothing but leather will come up, but you might hand your foe a haul of gold or silver – so grabbing these even-toed ungulates is a major, and exciting risk. Golden Geek Best 2-Player Board Game Nominee | Board Game Honor". Boardgamegeek.com . Retrieved 3 November 2019.

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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. This simple but satisfying blend makes Jaipur 2nd Edition a highly accessible choice – I have played it with a wide range of family and friends. It comes in a compact format with a highly attractive design and great production values. It comes out at home, at the pub and on holiday – a game for all seasons. I strongly recommend adding it to your collection. If you have lots of camels and your opponent has none, you are in control of the game. More often than not, the person who wins the camel token wins the round.Cut your losses – If you are holding out for a bonus but your opponent also starts taking an interest in the same good as you, consider selling early, especially if high value, rare cards are as stake. It’s a risk worth considering, and games can be won and lost on it. The player who loses the round gets to go first on the next one. Continue play until one player has won two Seals of Excellence. WINNING Learning the right time to take, sell and swap is key to doing well. It can, however, lead to cagey passages of play where players are selling single cards, or keep swapping to stop revealing a new card for their opponent, which can frustrate. But this is a) a minor issue when a game only takes about 10 minutes, and b) not the way everyone will choose to play anyway. The rules say you’re supposed to play best of three but if you’re really pushed for time a one-off is still lots of fun.

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Jaipur is a two-player card game in which players are pitted against each other to be named the Maharaja’s personal trader. Jaipur is like the Schrodinger’s Cat of games; you never know whether a round will be an easy win or more of a thinker, a high scorer or an epic battle for points, until you play. No strategy works the same twice as your opponent and you battle it out for large hauls or high-value items and of course, the camels. Jaipur is amazing at being a really simple entry point into the world of strategy-based games whilst still having many levels of depth that allow the game to be accessible to novices and pros alike. Give it a try and get yourself hooked. OutlineFinally, 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.