Through the Desert: Bazaar
Through the Desert: Bazaar Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Rival Nomads
Components
- 10 rival nomad cards
Setup
Place any 2 rival nomad cards faceup near the board. (You may pick them or deal randomly.)
Note: The river nomad can only be used with the river map. The mountain range nomad can only be used with the mountains map.
Gameplay
At the end of the game, each rival nomad card is awarded to the player who best fulfilled it. Each card is worth 10 points. If 2 or more players tie for a card, they each get a 5-point token instead.
Djinns
Components
- 16 djinn cards
Setup
Shuffle the djinn deck and place it facedown next to the board.
Gameplay
If you connect 1 or more caravans to an oasis marker during your turn, then at the end of your turn, you must reveal the top card on the djinn deck. Read aloud the djinn's new rule and place it faceup next to the deck (covering the previous djinn, if there is one). The faceup rule applies to all players until a new djinn is revealed.
When the djinn deck is empty, reshuffle all but the last faceup card to make a new facedown deck. Note that once the first djinn is drawn, there will always be a single active djinn for the rest of the game.
Note: If a djinn's rule requires you to place a camel of a specific color, but you can't legally do so, you may ignore it.
Playing with Special Watering Holes Expansion
The Special Watering Holes expansion contains extra camel tokens that allow the player to place an additional camel on their turn. This Extra Camel placement completely ignores all djinn card rules, being placed in addition to the other camels placed on the player's turn.
Special Watering Holes
Components
- 21 special watering hole tokens (12 trade goods, 9 extra camels)
Setup
Before placing watering hole tokens, remove 7 each of the 1 point, 2 point, and 3 point tokens (21 total) and shuffle in the special tokens to replace them. Then place as normal.
Gameplay
Special tokens can be claimed like other watering hole tokens, but are kept faceup in front of whoever claims them.
Extra Camel: This token may be discarded on your turn to place 1 extra camel of any color. This token be used immediately when claimed. Only 1 may be used each turn. Unused tokens score 0 points at game end.
Trade Good: At game end, score 10 points for every 2 tokens you have. Single tokens score 0 points.
Bazaars
Components
- 9 bazaar tokens (3 each of 15 point, 10 point, 5 point)
Setup
Sort the bazaar tokens into 3 stacks with a 5-point token on the bottom, 10-point in the middle, and 15-point on top. Place 1 stack on each bazaar hex on the map (marked with the bazaar icon).
Gameplay
When one of your caravans connects a bazaar to a village, claim the top tile on the stack and keep it facedown to add to your total during scoring. A caravan is connected to a bazaar or village if it either is placed next to or encloses it (just like an oasis). Hexes next to villages are marked with a village icon. Each caravan can claim one tile from each bazaar for each village it connects to. If 2 different caravans connect the same bazaar and village, they can both claim a tile.
Leaders can't be placed on or next to a bazaar (but can be placed next to a village). Camels can't be placed on a hex that has bazaar tokens left. If a hex runs out of bazaar tokens, it becomes an empty hex, and a camel can be placed there (or it can be enclosed to score 1 point).