Sport
Merchant of Venus
The Avalon Hill Game Co, 1988
Merchant of Venus is a sport published by The Avalon Hill Game Co in 1988. It is played with 1 to 6 players, from age 12 and in about 180 minutes.
- players
- 1–6
- minutes
- 180
- years
- 12+
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The box
- Publishers
- The Avalon Hill Game Co, Fantasy Flight Games, Arclight Games, Asterion Press, Heidelberger Spieleverlag
- Designers
- Richard Hamblen, Robert A. Kouba
- Artwork
- Charles Kibler, George I. Parrish, Jr., Regina De Simone, Alex Aparin, David Griffith, Johannes Holm, Henning Ludvigsen
- Year of release
- 1988
- Also known as
- Mercanti di Venere
About the game
Merchant of Venus is a board game, published in 1988 by Avalon Hill, set in an unexplored part of the galaxy during a reawakening of galactic civilization. Players move around the board as traders discovering long forgotten pockets of civilization and buying and selling goods. The game can be played by one to six players. In tournaments it is usually played by four players. The solitaire version, which relies heavily on combat with a militaristic race, has different game mechanics.
The name of the game is a pun on the Shakespeare play Merchant of Venice. The planet Venus does not actually appear in the game.More from The Avalon Hill Game Co
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