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Sheriff of Nottingham – Improve your negotiation skills

2015-08-24 by David Sanchez Leave a Comment

Negotiate, negotiate and negotiate.  Sheriff of Nottingham allows you to do one thing, but it does it really well!  This is a light, social and really fun game for 3-5 players.  The main game mechanic for Sheriff of Nottingham could be described as follows: Each turn, one of the players will play the role of the Sheriff, and the others the role of merchants that are trying to get goods past customs, of which the Sheriff is in charge. The game has 2 types of goods (represented as cards): legal and ilegal. In each turn, the merchants will put all the cards they wish (legal and/or ilegal) from their hand into a bag and give it to the Sheriff, who will decide if he lets the goods into the city without inspections or if he decides to open it.  If he inspects the bag, he will receive gold for all the undeclared goods, but if the merchant had truthfully declared his goods, the Sheriff will have to pay him for them and the merchant may keep them. Merchants are allowed to negotiate [Read full post...]

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