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1998 · 2-6 players · 90min · weight 3.08 · 1,203 ratings
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ID
296
Name
Medieval Merchant
Year
1998
Rank
1888
Min players
2
Max players
6
Playing time
90
Min playtime
60
Max playtime
90
Avg weight
3.0833
Num weights
132
Bayes avg
5.90864
Average
6.70041
Users rated
1203
Num owned
1751
Wanting
67
Wishing
213
Num comments
448
Fetched at
Sat Apr 25 2026 16:17:45 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (2)
Area Majority / InfluenceIncome
Categories (2)
EconomicMedieval
Description (608 chars)
Players secure valued markets via affordable trade routes between medieval cities while simultaneously forcing opponents into less affordable and less valued markets. The cities themselves have a variable number of spaces for players to develop business branches within, or alternatively establish new trade routes into wider reaching cities and towns. Players may generate income and risk losing dominance over a city, or add branches within a city that lower the value of your product but can award you with a stronger market influence. At the end of the game, the player with the most influence wins.
LLM v2 (wide)
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LLM v3 (deep)
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