Jaipur (game)

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Jaipur
Game data
author Sébastien Pauchon
graphic Alexandre Roche
publishing company GameWorks ,
Asmodée Editions (Distribution)
Publishing year 2009
Art Card game
Teammates 2
Duration about 30 minutes
Age from 12 years

Awards

Jaipur is a card game by the Swiss game designer Sébastien Pauchon , published in 2009 by GameWorks . Alexandre Roche was responsible for the graphic design . In 2010 the game won the “ à la carte card game award ” and was included in the recommendation list for “ Game of the Year ”.

Game idea and process

The Maharajah of Jaipur , capital of the Indian state of Rajasthan , is looking for a new purveyor to the court. Two dealers compete for this privilege, but only the more successful of the two will get the approval. In the role of this dealer, the players have to purchase goods and sell them as profitably as possible in order to be able to show the most rupees at the end of each round . The dealer who then owns most of the camels also receives a bonus .

The game material includes:

  • 55 playing cards (44 goods cards, 11 camels)
  • 60 game chips (38 commodity chips, 1 camel chip, 18 bonus chips, 3 seals of excellence)

At the beginning of each round, three camels are sorted out from the playing cards and the remaining cards are shuffled. Each player receives five cards face down, two more cards are placed face up in the middle of the table, they form the first market together with the three camels . The chips are sorted and placed ready.

Camels are always removed from the cards in hand and collected on a separate pile, they can be exchanged in the game for goods from the market or collected for a final bonus. A player only holds goods cards in his hand, each of which shows one of six goods: leather , spices , cloth , silver , gold or diamonds . The latter goods appear less frequently in the game and are correspondingly valuable when sold.

The two players take turns and can then choose whether they want to buy or sell cards. A player can only purchase new cards from the market display; there are again three options available to him: He can exchange several of his own cards (goods or camels) for other goods cards from the market or take one goods card from the market without exchanging or take all camels from the market acquire. In the last two cases, the market is replenished to five cards from the deck. A purchase of new cards is only possible if the player does not hold more than seven cards in hand.

Alternatively, a player can sell cards from his hand. To do this, he places any number of goods cards of one type on the discard pile and takes the appropriate number of goods chips from the center of the table. The value of the commodity chips continues to decrease with every sale of the same commodity, so selling them early can often be more worthwhile. If a player can put down three or more goods cards at once, he will receive a corresponding number of bonus chips as a bonus in addition to the goods chips. Diamonds, gold and silver can only be sold if a player can discard at least two such goods cards.

A round ends when either the stack of cards or three of the stacks of goods tokens are used up. The players now add up the values ​​of their purchased goods and bonus chips, the player with the most camels also receives the camel chip and thus a special bonus. Those who have collected more rupees receive one of the three seals of excellence. Further rounds are played until one of the players has won two rounds and thus acquired two seals of excellence, who then also wins the game.

Awards and reviews

In 2010 the game won the “ à la carte card game award ” and was also included in the recommendation list for “ Game of the Year ”. In the same year it was nominated for the “ International Gamers Award ” in the category “General Strategy: Two-players” and was named “Best New Family Card Game” by Games Magazine .

Overall, the reviews of Jaipur were positive: The reviewers described it as an entertaining game for "in between", which thanks to fewer rules and exemplary instructions is easy to learn. Opinions were divided, especially the higher percentage of luck and the colorful design of the game material. Some reviewers also found the price too high.

background

One of the camel cards shows a panda in the middle of the luggage. According to the author Sébastien Pauchon, this is an allusion to the board game Zooloretto by Michael Schacht , on whose game box such a panda is depicted. Zooloretto won the 2007 “ Game of the Year ” award , for which Pauchon's first game, Yspahan , was nominated.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Review by Reich der Spiele from November 2, 2009
  2. ↑ Andreas Ronge: Review at brettspieloase.de from November 22, 2009
  3. ↑ Jörg Köninger: Review at Cliquenabend.de from April 15, 2010
  4. ↑ Jörg Domberger: Review at spieletest.at from April 26, 2010
  5. ↑ Roland Winner: Review by H @ LL9000 from May 20, 2010
  6. ↑ Dirk Baumgart: Review at GoodGamesGuide from January 29, 2011
  7. ↑ Dirk Bake: Review at michas-spielmitmir.de
  8. ↑ 'Easter Egg' on one of the camel cards , November 17, 2009, at BoardGameGeek (English).