Pegasus Spiele | Istanbul Big Box | Board Game | 2 to 5 Players | Ages 10+ | 40 to 90 minute playing time

Istanbul: Big Box is the all-in-one package for Istanbul, including the base game as well as both expansions, Mocha and Baksheesh and Letters and Seals. It also includes the Istanbul: Caravan Leader Mini Expansion, in the form of a small tile rather than a camel meeple. This combination also gives players the option to play on a big 5 x 5 tiles bazaar. Have you heard of Istanbul, the marvellous offering designed by Rüdiger Dorn It spawned two excellent expansions – Mocha and Baksheesh, and Letters & Seals. Now, thanks to Pegasus Spiele, you can pick up (and deliver!) all three titles in one ‘Big Box’. Istanbul is a gateway-plus strategy game, based in a bustling Turkish marketplace. Your aim is to collect gems quicker than your opponents. This bazaar gets a modular treatment every time, as you construct it out of sixteen tiles in a 4x4 grid. You and your four assistants travel around to adjacent tiles, trading fabrics, spices and fruits in you wheelbarrow for gems. (That’s an impressive swap) 2-5 players, 40-90 min play time, Age 10+ Move to a new location and perform the stated actions depicted there. But every time you move, you must drop off an assistant along the way. Run out of assistants You have to head back home. Or, you can double back on your route, picking up that earlier-dropped assistant back into your service. Can you figure out an efficient route around the stalls to pick up what you need It’s a wonderful puzzle of a board game mechanism So what do you get in the Big Box version of Istanbul The Mocha and Baksheesh module provides a new trading commodity: coffee Trade this valuable bean across four new market tiles in different ways to earn gems. Meanwhile, secrets are the currency in Letters and Seals. Deliver messages between the market stalls is a neat way to earn money. But even more valuable still is selling those trade secrets for precious rubies In total, Istanbul: Big Box provides you with the variety to play with a larger bazaar, in a 5x5 grid. This is the perfect way to play with all your Istanbul variants in one big package. Directions Instructions on how to set up the game, place the tiles, distribute the cards and pieces, and play the game according to the rules. Manufacturer Contact Information Manufacturer name: Pegasus Spiele GmbH; manufacturer's address: Am Straßbach 3, 61169 Friedberg, DE; e-mail address: info@pegasus.de