Baksheesh (game)

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baksheesh
Game data
author "Kara Ben Hering":
Fritz Gruber , Wolfgang Lüdtke ,
Reiner Müller , Peter Neugebauer , Klaus Teuber
graphic Karin Späth , Marion Pott
publishing company Goldsieber games
Publishing year 1995
Art Board game
Teammates 2 to 4
Duration 60 minutes
Age from 9 years

Bakschisch is a board and family game by the game authors Fritz Gruber , Wolfgang Lüdtke , Reiner Müller , Peter Neugebauer and Klaus Teuber , which they jointly published in 1994 under the pseudonym "Kara Ben Hering" at the games publisher Goldsieber Spiele . The game for two to four players, ages nine and up, lasts around 60 minutes per round. It is a bluff and bidding game in which the players take bribes ( baksheesh ) to advance to the court of the caliph and want to become caliph themselves.

Theme and equipment

The game is a bluff and bidding game in which the other players try to bribe the servants of the palace of the caliph and thus gain more and more favor. Your goal is to become the caliph in the palace yourself, and whoever succeeds wins the game.

In addition to the instructions, the contents of the game box consist of:

  • a game plan with a representation of the palace and the servants,
  • 4 colored pawns,
  • 4 thief figures (black),
  • 4 fabric bags,
  • 30 person cards with residents of the palace (guards, servants, harem lady , eunuch , fakir ) and the caliph, and
  • 40 gold pieces.

Style of play

At the beginning of the game, the game board is placed in the middle of the table and each player chooses a color. Each player receives the corresponding colored game figure, which is placed on the starting field of the game board, as well as a small cloth bag in which he places a thief and 10 gold coins. The character cards are shuffled and placed face down on the game board, then the first 5 cards are placed face down on the corresponding game board spaces.

Components for the game of baksheesh: cloth bags, gold coins, game figures and thieves

The game is played over several rounds, each consisting of five individual bribes, depending on the face-up character cards. With clever bribes, the players try to rise in the palace and reach the throne field. The bribes take place in the same order: First, the person on the left is turned over to identify the person to be bribed. Each player reaches into his cloth bag and takes as many gold coins from it as the bribe is worth to him (even zero), or the thief figure in his closed hand and holds it in front of him. Then they open their hands and the result is scored.

In the first four bribes in a round, the player who bid the most coins wins and moves up to the next position on the board that shows the person bribed. If several people have bid the same number of coins, they can all advance accordingly. If the bribed person is the caliph, the players move forward as many spaces as their current position on the game board. If a player has used a thief, he receives all the gold coins of his fellow players that were used; if there were several thieves, they split the profit among themselves. If there was no thief, all gold coins are given and placed next to the game board. Each player may only use a thief once in each round or over five bribes. With the fifth bribe in a round, the rules change: the player or players who have bet the fewest coins must move backwards to the next field of the bribed person or to the starting field.

After each complete round of five bribes, the bribes used are distributed evenly to the players, the thieves go back to their owners and the next round with the next five bribes is started by placing another 5 cards on the card fields.

The game ends when a player takes the throne at the end of a round and holds it after the fifth bribe. The player reaches the throne when he has carried out a successful bribe in a round and there is no longer a bribed person between his character and the throne. If several players succeed in doing this, the one who still has the most gold coins wins.

publication

The game Bakschisch was developed by the game authors Fritz Gruber , Wolfgang Lüdtke , Reiner Müller , Peter Neugebauer and Klaus Teuber , who published it in 1994 under the pseudonym "Kara Ben Hering" at the games publisher Goldsieber Spiele . At that time, Klaus Teuber and Reiner Müller were in charge of the Goldsieber program with their game designer workshop TM-Spiele and brought several other games onto the market at Goldsieber.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d e Bakschisch , instructions, Goldsieber Verlag 1994
  2. ↑ Versions of the game Baksheesh in the BoardGameGeek game database ; accessed on March 21, 2020.
  3. ↑ Harald Schrapers : Bakschisch , review on gamesweplay.de, August 28, 1998; accessed on March 21, 2020.

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