Samarkand: Isfahan
Samarkand: Isfahan Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Setup
Shuffle the 8 market tokens face down and place them face down on the 8 market spaces on the board. Now turn them all face up. These tokens replace the markets printed on the board for this game. The transparent market discs are not used with this expansion.
Selling Goods
As in the basic game, when a player comes to a city, he must sell one of the two kinds of goods pictured on the market tokens in that city.
One of the market tokens has an "X" on it. When a player comes to a city with the "X" market token, he can only sell the goods pictured on the other market token.
After the sale, the player exchanges the market token that shows the goods he sold with the "X" market token. In this way, the market tokens move from city to city throughout the game.
Reprinted Variant Rules (2022 Bazaar Samarkand Insert)
The 2022 insert gives the same mechanic in reworded form. Its wording differs slightly from the designer's card above; the card above is the primary text. The insert's own wording is reproduced here.
Setup (insert)
To play with the Isfahan Variant, punch out the market tokens provided (you only need one of each color, and one of the multicolor markets; the eighth is a spare). During setup, take the 7 Market tokens and the purple Closed Market token and place them randomly on the market spaces. These tokens replace the markets printed on the board for this game.
Editor's note: the insert's text refers to a purple Closed Market token. The scan of the insert's tokens shows six single-colour tokens and two multicolor tokens, and no purple token; the text is kept as printed.
Selling Goods (insert)
During the game, when a player sells goods in a City, the player then exchanges the market token they used with the Closed Market token. In this way, the market tokens move from city to city throughout the game.