Players have a caravan consisting of five to eight camels (the fewer players, the more animals each). Each camel carries four commodities, of which at least three are different, from the following five: gold (yellow), water (blue), coffee (green), pepper (red) and salt (gray).
A game is played in as many games as there are players. At each stage, all the camels move and occupy the free places of the next oasis. An oasis consists of five columns numbered from 1 to 5 and differentiated by symbols: crescent moon, scimitar, star, lamp or palm tree. The camel of a column can move freely only to two other columns of the next step; by discarding a commodity he transports, he can go wherever he likes. In all cases, it is placed on the lower value box.
The choice of this or that column is based on the fact that looters come to rob camels at each end of stage. But as a good caravaneer you are, you have your informants among the brigands. Thus, at the beginning of each step, we distribute to each one unique information concerning one and only one of the columns: we can thus know what will be the two goods stolen from the camels present in two precise locations of the column concerned (for example, in the scimitar column, the robbers will take salt and coffee to the camels occupying places 2 and 5).
Twice a step, the indices held by the players will circulate clockwise. Given that he has five pieces of information in total (one for each oasis column), each player will ultimately only get the info from three of the five columns: to each to deduce, according to the information he has and placements of opposing camels, places saved from those at risk, on pain of even his own quadrupeds relieved of important goods.
At the end of the stage, the attacks of thieves are revealed, and the camels are relieved of the coveted goods. At the end of the last stage, the arrival in Timbuktu, each commodity still present on one of his camels yields as much money as the number of goods of the same type stolen or discarded during the game (the rarest ingredients will be as well). the most expensive ones).
The player with the most money wins the game.
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Contents of the box : 1 game board in four parts, 105 items, 5 tables Caravan, 40 camel cards, 15 thieves cards, 1 sticker sheet, 40 wooden camels, 1 step counter, 1 game counter, 1 rule book.
