2010 · Economic

The Speicherstadt

Players act as Hamburg wholesalers around 1900, acquiring shiploads of spices, coffee, tea and carpets to fulfill contracts and score points. Cards are drafted across four seasonal decks; later seasons introduce more powerful options, so players plan acquisitions over time. Bidding occurs by building towers of meeples over cards: placing meeples increases a card’s cost for players beneath them, and each player has a limited number of bids per round, creating timing and positional strategy. Players also collect special cards and sets for endgame points and must obtain fireman cards or suffer penalty points for fires.

groupPlayers

2–5 best 4

schedulePlaying time

45 min

cakeAge

8+

psychologyComplexity

2.3 / 5