Istanbul Big Box- Welcome to the Bazaar of Istanbul! Use your assistants well in this fantastic strategy game, and collect the rubies faster than your opponents!
Istanbul: Big Box is the all-in-one package for Istanbul, including the base game as well as both expansions, Mocha & Baksheesh and Letters & Seals. It also includes the Istanbul: Caravan Leader Mini Expansion (in the form of a small tile rather than a camel meeple)
This combination also gives players the option to play on a big 5 x 5 tiles bazaar.
Merchants and their assistants are hurrying through the narrow alleys attempting to be more successful than their competitors. Good organization is key: Wheelbarrows have to be filled with goods at the warehouses and then swiftly transported to the various destinations by the assistants. The goal of the merchants is to be the first to collect a certain amount of rubies.
In Istanbul, you lead a group of one merchant and four assistants through 16 locations in the bazaar. At each such location, you can carry out a specific action. The challenge, though, is that to take an action, you must move your merchant and an assistant there, then leave the assistant behind (to handle all the details while you focus on larger matters). If you want to use that assistant again later, your merchant must return to that location to pick him up. Thus, you must plan ahead carefully to avoid being left with no assistants and thus unable to do anything.
Istanbul a brilliant strategy game for 2-5 players.
- Age: 10+
- Play Time: 40-90 Minutes
- Number of Players: 2-5 Players
- Designer: Rüdiger Dorn
- Artist: Andreas Resch, Hans-Georg Schneider