Silk Market deck
| Silk Market deck | |
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| Designer | Jacoby |
| Date | 1/02/2010 |
| Players | 2+ |
| This deck has not been categorised. | |
| To play Dvorak: Draw five cards each and leave the rest as a draw pile. On your turn, draw a card from the draw pile and play one Thing and/or one Action. (See the full rules.) | |
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The Silk Market in Beijing, China is a seething mass of no-holds-barred capitalism, with almost everything you could ever want on sale. On sale, that is, if you can beat the sellers at the fine art of negotiation. Silk Market has players take on the role of both buyers and sellers, each trying to get the best deal on products without really knowing how much they're worth.
Special Rules
Card Types
There are 4 card types in the game: Price cards, Shopping List cards, Merchandise cards and Special cards. Price and Merchandise cards all have categories that are shown on the cards. Merchandise cards also have a point value. This is how many points the card is worth to the Buyer. Price, Shopping List and Merchandise cards are all Things, while Special cards are Actions.
Start of Game
Separate the Price cards into separate decks by category. These are collectively called the Price decks. Separate the Shopping List cards into their own deck. Each player takes one Shopping List card. The remaining cards are called the deck. Each player takes 5 cards. Get a set of small tokens (coins, poker chips, etc.). These are called Point Tokens. Each player should also have some way of keeping the number of Point Tokens, as well as the cards they get during the game, secret, such as a cardboard screen or similar.
Buyers
On a player's turn, that player is called the Buyer.
Sellers
Each turn, every player who is not the Buyer must choose one Merchandise card from their hand to show to the Buyer. The Buyer will choose one of those Merchandise cards. The player who showed that Merchandise card is called the Seller.
Negotiation
The Seller must take a Price card from the deck that matches the category of the Merchandise card. The Seller must keep it secret from the Buyer. The Buyer and the Seller can now negotiate how many Point Tokens the Seller will get before he/she will give the Merchandise card to the Buyer. Once they agree, the Buyer takes the Merchandise card and puts it face down next to him/her. This Merchandise card is now referred to as "purchased". The Seller gets the number of Point Tokens as agreed upon.
Secrecy
The number of point tokens, as well as the "purchased" Merchandise cards and Shopping List card, must be kept secret from other players until the end of the game.
End of Game
A player who has the combination of "purchased" Merchandise cards as shown on their Shopping List card can choose to end the game at the end of their turn. When they do so, all players reveal their "purchased" Merchandise cards, their Shopping List cards, and their Point Tokens, and start figuring out their score.
Scoring
Players should find their Buyer and Seller scores, then add them together to find their total score.
