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Shanghai Trader

#796BGG ↗

1986 · 3-6 players · 300min · weight 2.58 · 228 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

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ID
796
Name
Shanghai Trader
Year
1986
Rank
10771
Min players
3
Max players
6
Playing time
300
Min playtime
180
Max playtime
300
Avg weight
2.5789
Num weights
19
Bayes avg
5.57648
Average
6.53424
Users rated
228
Num owned
461
Wanting
15
Wishing
45
Num comments
110
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:56 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (2)
Tile PlacementTrading
Categories (2)
EconomicPolitical
Description (673 chars)

Shanghai Trader is a game of wheeling and dealing, vice and corruption set in Shanghai. As an adventurous trading baron, you must rip off the economy for as much as you dare and escape the city with the largest international bank account before civil disorder ends the game and your life. In making your fortune, you will have to establish a trading empire by hiring a number of different workers. However you always run the risk of being shanghai'ed to Old Chinatown, where all manner of skullduggery occurs. You will have to collude with other players, attend special events, or even resort to hiring the services of special contractors to... 'trouble' ...your rivals.

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).

LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)

Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).

LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)

Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.