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Rio Grande Games Medici Feature

• 3 to 6 player game
• 45 minutes to play
• Medieval building theme
• Strategy game

Rio Grande Games Medici Overview

Return to the trading days of the ancient Medici family when ships sailed throughout the Mediterranean and beyond. Bid at the markets for the best prices on valuable and not so valuable goods. Corner the market on a commodity and reap additional rewards. Fill your ship and set sail for foreign markets where your goods will fetch high prices. After three trips to the market, the player with the most money wins! Games Magazine writes, “It’s great to see Reiner Knizia’s classic redesigned in English”. The game is for 2 to 6 players and takes about 45 minutes to play.

Rio Grande Games Medici User Review

Medici is a game about bidding and quantitative risk. Each players turn they lay out 1-3 cards (flipping 1 at a time and stopping when they choose) each consisting on a resource and a point value. Then each player bids until the player who placed the cards gets the final bid. Whoever wins gets the 1-3 cards to put in there “cargo” (max of 5). At the end of each day (all cards run out or all cargo ships are full) You tally your resources then divy out money depending on who is leading in resources and points in their cargo ship for that day.

There is a total of 3 days and it gets really interesting on how to bid. There may be a load that you do not want but you know someone else really wants. So you will bid just so they have to pay more. But they could just let you have it and mess up your game (and potentially theirs).

The dynamics of the game changes a lot depending on the style of who you are playing with and whether you playing with 3,4 or 5 people.

This is mostly a game of balancing risk. I’ve never played another game quite like this one and I think that is where Medici stands aparty. Originality. It’s very simple to learn how to play though it is very confusing to know what to bid your first couple times playing.

My friends and I play a LOT of games and this is one we frequently go back to. I highly recommend it. I know it’s out of print so hopefully it doesn’t become too hard to find over time. 

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