Status: Playtesting

Introduction
Where east meets west, a vibrant trading center thrives. For thousands of years, people from all over the world have come to the steppe city Kashgar to exchange goods. After weeks of traveling by caravan, you too have come to trade your wares just in time for the city’s annual grand exchange. Your goal at the exchange is to make the largest profit you can. The way you do that is to bring home the most valuable goods. But the value of goods at home will all depend upon the competition. So you will have to be careful which goods you collect and who you compete with. In the end, only the savviest traders will carry home a fortune from Kashgar.

Game Details
Theme: Silk Road Merchants
Game Type: Card Game
Number of Players: 2 – 5
Time per Game: 45 min
Minimum Age: 8 years
Category: Abstract Strategy
Mechanic: Commodity Speculation
Hand Management

Components
50 Trade Good Cards
10 Gold Cards

Object of the Game
You win if you are the first to earn 100 or more points in profit.

How to Play
Throughout the game, you will exchange goods (cards) in your hand for goods in the market with equal market value. On your turn, you may either add one good to the market from your hand to collect two or more other goods with equal market value or you may add multiple goods to collect a single good. Once someone runs out of goods to trade, the trading session is over and you count up the goods you collected. Generally, you want to gather as many of the high value goods as you can through your trading, but you will have to be watchful of your competition because you will only profit from a good if no one else has more of it than you do.

Artwork
(forthcoming)

Rules
English

Publicity
(forthcoming)

Credits
Trademark: Kashgar™
Copyright: ©2010 Evertide Games
Publisher: —–
Release Date: —–
Representative: —–
Game Design: Richard James
Playtesting: William Lee, Graydon Schlichter, Robert James, Ross James, Beth James, Laura Kelly, Jeffrey Kelly, Luca Holme, Abraham Seckler, Katie Melanson, Joe Fenton