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Trade on the Tigris

Trade on the Tigris is a pleasant, lighter trading game that still held up on a second outing. A few strategies are beginning to look suspiciously stronger than the rest, though.

Trade on the Tigris

Trade on the Tigris

Published
2018
Designer
Geoff Engelstein, Ryan Sturm
Publisher
Tasty Minstrel Games
Players
3–6
Playing time
90 min

Trade on the Tigris is the lighter choice when the table is not in the mood for something the size of Sidereal Confluence. With five players it moves along nicely, and a second play confirmed that the trading still has life in it. It is not merely first-game sparkle.

There is a small barb in there, though. The more I see it, the more certain strategies seem to have a real edge. That is not a conviction yet; it is the sort of concern that needs another game, with more people pulling the table in different directions.

With five players it moves along nicely, and a second play confirmed that the trading still has life in it.
TheCuttlefish

I want to see it with six before saying so for certain, but for now it is an agreeable trading game with a nagging sense that the market may already have picked its winners.

I want to see it with six before saying so for certain, but for now it is an agreeable trading game with a nagging sense that the market may already have picked its winners.
TheCuttlefish

Source: BoardGameGeek

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