Jaipur: Maharaja's Personal Trader Quiz

Answer: Sebastien Pauchon

Sebastien Pauchon was born in 1971 and was a professional billiards player. He was co-founder of GameWorks games publishing company. He stopped designing his own games in 2013 when he joined Space Cowboys.
Klaus Teuber was the designer of "Settlers of Catan", Alan R. Moon was the designer of the "Ticket to Ride" series of games and Alex Randolph designed games such as "TwixT" and "Breakthru".

Answer: Two

The game is for two players aged 12 and over and it is played as a best of three rounds competition. The winner of each round receives a "Seal of Excellence" token.

Answer: No

"Jaipur" is purely a card game. It does not use dice and it is not played on a board.

Answer: Cards

There are six types of goods which are: Diamonds, gold, silver, cloth, spice and leather. These can be sold in the market for rupees. There are six cards each for diamonds, gold and silver, eight each of cloth and spice and ten for leather.

Answer: Diamonds

There are five tokens available for each "valuable" commodity. Diamonds are the most valuable of the goods. The first two are worth seven rupees and the other three five. For gold, the first two are worth six rupees and the rest five and for silver all five tokens are worth five rupees. There are seven tokens for cloth and spice and nine tokens for leather.

Answer: Camel

There are 11 camel cards. These cards bear no value at all but are used in exchanging other goods. When a player gets camel cards, either because he initially was dealt with some, or when he decides to take them all he places them face down in front of him. This constitutes the player's herd.

Answer: 7

Each player is allowed to hold a maximum of seven cards. The player reduces the number of cards in his hand by selling them and getting rupees.

Answer: Take one camel and one good

You can take a single good from the table, provided that you do not already hold seven, and replace it with the top card from the deck.
You can take several goods and exchange them with the same number of cards. The returned cards can be camels, goods or a mixture.
You can take all the camels that are laid down and replace them with an equal number of cards from the deck.

Answer: Sell various goods at the same time

You are only allowed to sell one type of goods. You cannot mix and match. You exchange the number of cards that you sell by the tokens that are on the top of the pile. If you sell three, four or five cards you also get a corresponding bonus token. The value of the bonus token is between eight and ten when you sell five goods, between four and six if you sell four goods and between one and three if you sell three goods.

Answer: Three types of goods tokens are exhausted

When three of the stacks are depleted the game ends. This allows the players to strategically end the game at a point that is more suitable to them. The winner of the round is the player that has amassed the most rupees. There is an additional five rupee bonus for the player that has the largest herd of camels.

When the deck of cards is depleted the cards that were sold are shuffled and place down as the new deck.