morocco
In Morocco, players are families of artisans carrying on the ancient traditions of the world famous Jemaa el-Fnaa market square in Marrakech, Morocco. Each day, they work to claim the best stalls across the market and attract customers to sample their wares or be enthralled by their amazing spectacles.
It is going to be an extra busy day so the families fight even harder to claim the their needed space. The ancient families of snake charmers, water sellers, rug merchants, magicians, and food sellers work hard vying for the best stalls.
In Morocco, players will send their workers out to try and claim stalls at the market. When enough workers from the same family have made it to a stall, that family claims it and clears out any adjacent juice sellers.
Morocco is played over two separate phases: scout the market and assign workers. In the first phase, players use the nearby roof to scout the market and determine where the busiest stalls will be. In the second phase, players use the gained information to send workers out into the market.
LB_NUMBER_OF_PLAYERS: 2 - 5
Game duration: 103 mn
Complexity: 3 / 5
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Rules summary
Overview
Take turns sending people to stalls until there are 5 or fewer open stalls in the market
Market Dice
In 2 or 3 player games only, the first step of a round is to roll the dice once (3p) or twice (2p) and everyone gains a cube of the depicted resource (or player choice if wild)
Scout Stalls
In the next stage of the round, each player performs a scout action in turn order
Move the yellow scout marker to a new space
The active player gains the cubes on the two adjacent spaces, whilst everyone else gains a cube of the space the scout marker is actually on
Assign Workers
In this next stage, each player performs two non-consecutive actions
On your turn, pick a stall and place a person on a space in that stall by paying the row and column cube cost (with some variations based on the type of person)
An Assistant or Bodyguard work on the basic cost system described above
A Tourist require the basic cost system above + 1 cube of any type (even one not in the row/column)
Cousins are two Assistants which cost the basic cost system + 1 cube of any type (even one not in the row/column) to place the first, then the second is placed in an adjacent stall at no cost
Special Action
During the Assign workers step, you may spend as many gold coins as you wish, each spend allows you to swap the positions of two row OR column cubes, changing the costing of certain stalls (You can't swap a row for a column)
Closing a Stall
After placing a worker, check to see if all 4 spaces of a stall have now been filled
Bodyguards count as taking up 2 spaces for this purpose
The player who took up the most spaces gets 5VP + covers the stall with their market tile
If there's a tie for 1st, all tied players get 5VP but a neutral market tile goes on the stall
2nd place gets 2VP, 1 Gold, and 1 Bodyguard
Tied 2nd, all get 1VP, and then a choice of 1 Gold OR 1 Bodyguard
3rd gets 1VP + 1 Gold or 1 Bodyguard
After which, all players take the numbered juice token(s) closest to their corner of the stall before removing all persons from the stall with some exceptions below:
Bodyguards go back to the Guard Quarter's rather than a player's personal supply
Depending on the direction the Market Tile is facing, any Tourists move in that direction to an adjacent stall and swap them for a normal Assistant of theirs (Market Tiles must be directed to an open stall if possible, unless none are in any of the available directions)
Round End
After everyone has had 2 placements, the round ends
The first player is shifted
The Scout marker is moved to the central space so it's not blocking any options
Everyone discards down to 1 cube
Game End
The game ends when there are 5 or less open stalls at the end of a given round
Juice tokens award points equal to their value
Each Market Tile in your largest connected district scores 3VP each
Each Gold is 1VP
Tiebreakers is most Market Tiles on stalls
