Dschunke (German)

Distributor:	Queen Games
Category:	Strategy game
Players:	3-4
Play time:	45-60 minutes
Ages:	12+
Content:	1 Game board 80 Cargo strips in 4 player colors 10 Market cards 3 Markers 30 Special cards 8 Supply cards 72 Goods cards (18 of each type) 3 Merchants 2 Trainees 1 Junk 1 Turn Overview card 1 Summary Sheet 1 wad of Game money
Game target:	To get most points through money, bonus from special cards if you have reached their goals and game end bonuses depending of on how many junks you have crates.
Rules:	Rules in English
Strategy:	There are good possibilities to plan ahead. Particularly you need to check on which junks the merchants are when it's your turn next time and plan for getting a lot of points or card in these turns. There is a large bluffing and counter-bluffing element in the bidding. You have to out-guess each other and you must have at least a single cards of each goods to be able to get some cheap goods sometimes. Keep track of which goods the other player chooses.
Comments:	My edition is from 2001. The designer is Michael Schacht. It's only published in German. The game is played over 10 rounds. Each round contains the following 6 phases: 1. Market cards and Events 2. Player Actions 3. Resupplying Goods 4. Goods Bartering 5. Move Markers 6. Change Start-Player The game flows easily after a few turns and you don't need the summary to remember the phases. It also takes a few turns to understand the strategies. It's tricky that even the loser of the blind-bidding (phase 4) have to pay the bidden cards, but this rule probably keep the bids down a bit.

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