Review
The Rich and the Good
The Rich and the Good is a compelling Broker variant in its own right: stock manipulation, incomplete information, and a final cull with real bite.
- Published
- 2008
- Designer
- Carlo A. Rossi
- Publisher
- Ares Games, Winning Moves Germany, Galakta
- Players
- 3–5
- Playing time
- 45 min
The Rich and the Good is an unusually good variation on Broker, even if its designer is rather pleased with the shiny wheel he appears to have invented. The ancestry is visible, but the implementation is quite capable of standing on its own.
Its core is stock manipulation under limited information: you operate in a market where the picture is always incomplete, trying to judge what matters, what is about to move, and what the other players are really attempting. The interesting decision is not merely making a move; it is making one while the information is partial and everyone else’s intentions are more obscure still.
The ancestry is visible, but the implementation is quite capable of standing on its own.
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That uncertainty is where the player interaction lives, because every market manipulation changes the terrain for the whole table. Then comes the QE-like player elimination at the end: a finish that indulges nobody, and improves the tension precisely because it makes everyone account for the cost of their decisions.
It need not reinvent the wheel to deserve a place in a collection. For groups that enjoy stock manipulation and imperfect information, The Rich and the Good belongs on the shelf — even if it arrives there as a print-and-play copy.
For groups that enjoy stock manipulation and imperfect information, The Rich and the Good belongs on the shelf — even if it arrives there as a print-and-play copy.
TheTrainSpotter
Source: BoardGameGeek
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