Night Market

How to play

Two merchants trade at a night bazaar. Collect goods from the shared market and sell them for coins. The richer merchant wins the round and a seal. The first to 2 seals wins the match.

The cards

Porters (11 cards) carry your goods. They are not goods, so they never count toward your hand limit. You keep them in your porter team and can pay them into the market when you exchange.

Setting up a round

• The market starts with 3 porters and 2 cards from the deck.
• Each merchant is dealt 5 cards. Any porters dealt go straight into that merchant's porter team.
• You may hold at most 7 goods in your hand. Porters don't count.

On your turn, do exactly one thing

1. Take one good from the market. The empty spot is refilled from the deck. You can't if your hand already holds 7 goods.
2. Exchange: take 2 or more goods from the market and put back the same number of cards from your hand and/or your porters. You can't put back a kind of good you are taking, and you can't take porters this way. Your hand limit still applies.
3. Take porters: take all the porters in the market into your team. The market is refilled.
4. Sell: sell any number of cards of one kind. Take that many coins from the top of that good's pile (the top coins are worth the most). Pearl, Amber and Jade are precious: you must sell at least 2 at once.

Bonus tokens

Selling 3, 4, or 5+ cards at once also earns a face-down bonus token from the matching pile:

• 3 cards: 1 to 3 coins
• 4 cards: 4 to 6 coins
• 5 or more: 8 to 10 coins

Nobody sees bonus values until the round ends. You still get the bonus if the coin pile has run out.

End of a round

• The round ends at once when 3 coin piles are empty, or when the market can't be refilled because the deck has run out.
• Whoever has more porters gets the Porter token (5 coins). On a tie, nobody does.
• Add up coins, bonus tokens and the Porter token. The higher total wins a seal. On a tie, more bonus tokens wins; if still tied, more coin tokens wins.
• Unsold cards are worth nothing.
• The loser of a round starts the next one.

Using this screen

• At the top: you and the Rival, with coins so far and seals won (two wins the match). Tap either for details.
• The row of coins shows each good's pile. The number is the top coin, the one you'd get next. Tap a pile to see every coin left.
• Tap market cards and/or cards in your hand to select them. Tap your porter card (left of your hand) to add porters to an exchange; tap again for more.
• Only the moves your selection allows appear at the bottom. The line under the players says what your selection would do, or why it isn't allowed.
• If an exchange is short of cards to give back, Exchange fills the gap with porters and says so.
• When the Rival moves, the cards it takes glow in its colour and its chip shows what it did. ⋯ → Game info has the full log, the coin piles, bonus tokens and the deck.

Playing a friend

Tap ⋯ → Play friends online and send your friend the link. Each of you sees only your own hand; your friend takes the Rival's place.