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Game Components

• 55 goods cards
• 38 goods tokens
• 1 camel token
• 18 bonus tokens
• 3 Seals of Excellence

Setup

Place 3 camel cards face up between the players. Shuffle the remaining cards well.

Deal 5 cards to each player. The remaining cards are left face down as a draw pile (deck).

Take the first two cards from the deck and place them face up next to the camels. (There may well be 1 or 2 camels drawn). The market is now ready.

The players then remove any camels from their hands and put them face up in a in a stack in front of them. This forms each player's herd. …

Sometimes there are fewer tokens available than cards during a sale. In that case, you still receive the bonus token for the number of cards sold.

The use of the camels is a balancing act: if you don't have any then you have a problem if you want to take a lot of cards and your hand is empty. However, if you take a lot of camels then you risk leaving a very profitable market for your opponent.

If you do decide to take a large group of camels, it can be worthwhile doing this when your opponent already has 7 cards in hand. Then, if the new market is interesting, he'll have to exchange cards and probably won't be able to take all the cards wanted. …