Blue Orange Games - Dragon Market

Dragon Market by Blue Orange Games is designed for players aged 7 and up, accommodating 2 to 4 participants. In this engaging game, players strategically navigate boats along a river to collect specific items required to fulfill their objective cards.

To delve into the gameplay, each player commences with their character on a pontoon at one board corner. Turns involve placing boats on the board, with each boat occupying three spaces. Some boats feature a sailor in the center, while others have a sailor at the end. Two identical merchandise tokens fill the empty spaces on each boat, with a variety of twenty merchandise types available. Players begin the game with an objective card displaying four distinct merchandise types.

During a turn, the active player rolls dice to determine their available actions, which can be augmented by spending 1-2 coins. Actions include sliding a boat forward or backward through unoccupied spaces, rotating a boat 90º around its sailor, and moving the player's figure between pontoons, boat spaces, or picking up merchandise tokens. Unspent actions can be converted into coins. Upon obtaining all the required merchandise, players return to their pontoon, draw a new objective card, and the first to complete two objective cards emerges victorious.

Dragon Market introduces advanced objective cards displaying 3-4 merchandise types along with a bonus. Players draw two cards at the start, keeping one. Upon returning to their pontoon with the specified goods, they reveal the objective card, gaining access to a one-time or once-per-turn bonus. Drawing two new objective cards follows this, and the first to complete three objective cards wins. Team rules are included for both regular and advanced objective cards.

The game components comprise a board, 10 boats, 4 heirs, 2 dice, 40 merchandise tokens, 12 coins, 13 red objective cards, and 10 blue objective cards.