Kashgar: Merchants of the Silk Road
Run three caravans of cycling character cards to gather spices and race to fulfill Silk Road contracts.
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How to playSteve & Tiffany Learn & Play: Kashgar
ReviewKashgar: Merchants of the Silk Road Review - with Zee Garcia- Designer
- Gerhard Hecht
- Published by
- KOSMOS
- Editions by
- Grail Games
A card game of Silk Road spice trading where you run three caravans, each a small deck of overlapping character cards you can only reach one at a time. On your turn you take one action from the top card of a caravan, then send it to the back, so managing which caravan member surfaces next becomes a satisfying queue-planning puzzle. First to fill enough contracts wins.
Who it's for
Players who enjoy tactical engine games and the puzzle of ordering actions so the right card comes up at the right time.
Not for you if…
You want heavy interaction or a big board, since this is a fairly solitaire, plan-your-own-caravans card game.
Vibe's take
A satisfying queue-planning puzzle where sequencing which caravan member surfaces next drives everything.
Published 2013 · 13 years ago
older than 70% of games
In 3,009 collections
collected more than 41% of games
2–4 players · ages 10+
Best with 2 · publisher: 12+
about 45 min
shorter than 51% of games · typical 30–90 min
Complexity: medium
One warm-up round · 2.3 out of 5 · heavier than 60%
Opinions: broad agreement
Most people rate it similarly
Language: lots of text
Lots of text, fluency helps
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