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Merkator

#39684BGG ↗

2010 · 1-4 players · 90min · weight 2.96 · 2,801 ratings

v2 v3

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ID
39684
Name
Merkator
Year
2010
Rank
914
Min players
1
Max players
4
Playing time
90
Min playtime
45
Max playtime
90
Avg weight
2.9572
Num weights
187
Bayes avg
6.32906
Average
7.02062
Users rated
2801
Num owned
3474
Wanting
285
Wishing
943
Num comments
802
Fetched at
Sat Apr 25 2026 16:16:30 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (6)
ContractsEnd Game BonusesFollowPick-up and DeliverResource to MoveSet Collection
Categories (2)
EconomicPike and Shot
Description (1059 chars)

Merkator is about the rise of Hamburg after the Thirty Years' War. You visit cities to collect goods or fulfill orders. The collected goods are added to the cities when a player visits a neighboring city. Fulfilling an order provides you with another better, but more complex order additional to the fulfilled order which you keep and can fulfill again, although the number of orders you can own is limited. Each order itself is worth a certain amount of points at the end of the game. Also you can exchange these points for special cards which provide additional goods in certain cities or more victory points if you fulfill certain conditions at game end. Depending on the city you want to enter you either receive a resource called "time" or you have to spend it. By paying a certain time-fee you are allowed to accompany another player on his trip to a town to fulfill your orders in this town (but not to collect goods). The game ends when a player receives the order with the highest value by fulfilling the order one level below. UPC 4015566030602

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).