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

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Your aim is to secure the role of the Maharaja’s personal trader by becoming the richest merchant of them all. You do this by exchanging and selling diamonds, gold, silver, cloth, spice and leather at the market in exchange for rupees. The more cards you have of a commodity, the more rupees you’ll get. Bolding, Jonathan (12 November 2020). "The best 2-player board games". Pcgamer.com . Retrieved 12 November 2021. A round instantly ends if three types of goods token are no longer available, or once the draw pile has run out. 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.

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I would have liked it if the artwork on the cards was brought to life a bit more, as it certainly doesn’t ooze personality. But the warm illustrations, colors and design evoke the theme well.You are a great merchant in the great city of Jaipur. The Maharaja will invite only the richest merchant to be selected as the best trader in all the land. You must compete with your rival to be the first to achieve two seals of excellence. Buy, exchange, and sell goods at the best price on the market while all the while keeping an eye on your camel herd. Make the most money to gain a seal of excellence. 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. 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. Lets begin with acquiring cards. Instead of just drawing cards Jaipur gives you three different ways to acquire cards. One option is just to take one of the face up cards from the table and add it to your hand. The other two ways of acquiring cards are quite a bit more interesting. Instead of just taking one card from the market you have the option of taking as many cards as you want. If there are several cards that you want you can take all of them on one turn which makes it easier to collect sets. The catch is that you have to exchange the cards you take with cards from your hand. Thus you can change the composition of your hand but you can’t actually change how many cards that you have in your hand. Between these two decisions you have to decide between expanding the number of cards in your hand versus being able to take several cards that you want in one turn. Jaipur is a best-of-three game. At the end of each round, whoever is richest gets aSeal of Excellence. The first to get two Seals of Excellence wins. Setup

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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. A player may draw one card from the marketplace and replace it with the top card from the draw pile. Most of all, though, it is genuinely exciting. The risks you will take are great, but the rewards are far greater. And when your patience finally pays off with a big-number cash-in and a top bonus token, it can be quite the adrenaline rush. Jaipur is a card game for two players. It was created by Sébastien Pauchon in 2009 and published by Asmodee. Players assume the roles of powerful merchants in Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan. The aim is to receive two "seals of excellence" and be invited to the court of the Maharaja. The game focuses on buying, exchanging, and selling at better prices, all while keeping an eye on both your camel herds. You can’t buy or sell camels, only use them for this swap, but they’re easy to get. If you take one from the market, you actually get to take all the camels currently there, giving you a big pile of cards to make swaps with later. But beware, because this also means your opponent will get an extra-rich selection of new cards to choose from. There's also a bonus at the end for whoever has the most camels left in front of them.Because Jaipur is strictly a two player card game, and you’re always working with the same resources, you’re always reacting to what your opponent is doing. Every move you make has a massive impact on your opponent’s next turn, so there’s a beautiful push and pull to the game, as you try to make plays that will put you ahead while disadvantaging the other player. 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. 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. To sell cards, a player chooses one type of good and discards as many of that type as they want to the discard pile. Depending on the sale, the player will earn a specific number of tokens.