Tulip & Rose társasjáték

Angol leírás

Set at the end of the 17th century Amsterdam this game takes you into the booming flower trade of the period.

The flower market is full of merchants that want to strike the best deals , find rare species for their exceptional collections or earn the best value for their production.

You and your fellow players are flower merchants, and today you’re visiting the market for all the above reasons. Think smart, make good use of your coin, and decide what you’ll keep and what you’ll sell. With a bit of luck and a bit of strategy, victory will be yours!

Here’s a brief description of the game and its gameplay: Players try to get the most points out of the flowers they have gathered. The game is played in two “days”, and on each “day” several rounds are played (1 round per player). On each round, one player is the “active merchant”, and he tries to sell flowers to the rest.

Contents
84 Flower Cards

22 Special Cards
15 Special Orders Cards (these are used in a variant)
5 Scoring Assistant Cards

5 Merchant Cards
70 coins in 3 different values

10 Loan tiles
1 Rulebook

Setup

Before the game starts, each player selects (or is given randomly) a merchant card, a scoring assistant card and some coins.
The flower and special cards are shuffled together, and are placed as a face-down deck on the center of the table.

Gameplay
The actions that the active merchant performs in his round are the following:

• Receive Income: this applies to all players. Each one gets coins from the bank, depending on who his/her merchant is, and what cards he/she possesses (some give money).
• Reveal cards: The active player draws and reveals a number of cards from the deck, arranges them into two or three “bouquets” and offers them, one by one, for auction. The other players announce their bids (each player can bid more than once), and this continues until someone offers an amount no-one else wishes to surpass. The active merchant then has two options: to give the bouquet to the highest bidder and get the money, or to keep the bouquet to himself/herself, and give the high bidder an amount of money equal to half his high bid.

End of the Game
This continues until the end of the second day. Then the game ends, and each player counts the points he/she gathered (the logic is that, the more you have of each flower, the more points you’ll get). The coins you have left also give points. The player with the most points is the winner!