Special Committee is a bluffing and hidden identity game featuring current US politicians. Each player has two concealed Senator Cards. Players need to pass legislation that is important to their own Senators; HOWEVER, if other players figure out both of your Senators, and correctly accuse you, you're out of the game. The game has similarities to both...
On the box "An exciting skill-testing game from start to finish." Stock trading game, with player influenced moving stock markets. Roll the dice and move around the outer part of the board, picking up lobby cards, paying tax, inheriting money, winning the lottery, or being fined. Get chances to buy stock and enter the stocks markets to influence each...
Speculation is a commodity-trading game for 2 to 4 players, Ages 12 and up The object of the game is to finish with the most money. The players start with a portfolio of blue chips, gold, oil, and treasury bonds worth $1,000,000. Players can buy and sell shares by landing on Market Mover spaces on the gameboard. Every time someone lands on a Market Mover...
In Speculation, players buy and sell shares of stock, trying to have the most money at the end of the game. Each player has a hand of nine cards; eight of them match the company shares that are available for purchase, while the ninth card is a "Bank Holiday" card. Each of the eight companies has 2-5 shares available, depending on the number of players, and...
Speculation Queenie 1: New Action and Movement Tiles, a mini-expansion for Speculation, can be used individually or in combination with any other expansions for the game. This expansion consists of twelve action tiles and twelve movement tiles that can replace or be added to the tiles in the base game. Although which action tiles to add or replace is left...
Speculation Mini Expansion 2: 7th and 8th Players, a mini-expansion for Speculation, can be used individually or in combination with any other expansions for the game. This expansion includes components to allow for up to eight players in the game, namely additional shares, money, and company cards. In addition, each player now has a minus card in hand...
Speculation Queenie 3: Action and Movement Dice, a mini-expansion for Speculation, can be used individually or in combination with other expansions for the game. This expansion consists of two dice: one a movement die showing the values 1-6 and the other an action die showing "Trade" on three faces, "+1" on one face, "-1" on one face, and a sand timer on...
Speculation is played using two standard decks of cards divided into a stack for each suit, with six cards removed from each stack. Each suit represents a commodity. Each round one card from each stack is turned over to give the price for that commodity. All players may buy or sell the four commodities. If a face card is revealed for a commodity all...
In this monopoly-type game the properties are (existing Hungarian) companies and players can only buy shares of the companies. Moreover, when a player arrives to the appropriate space, the other players also can buy the shares of that company. But it is more expensive, since when shares of a company are bought, the value (and price) of all the shares of...
Spice Merchant comes across like a minimalistic Reiner Knizia design in which cards are both stocks in the value of goods and the goods being sold. Each player starts the game with a hand of seven spice cards, with six types of spices in the game; each player secretly stashes 1-2 cards (depending on the round), and these secret investments will be scored...
Each player captains a European merchant ship out to trade for the spices of Africa and Asia. The board simulates an old map and is divided into four trading regions, each with multiple ports. Each region sells a different spice and the market price is controlled by card play. However, an "expert price" can be obtained by guessing the identity of a mystery...