#60: Basari (Mark's 100 - 2012)

Basari

Mark's Ranking

• 2012: 60th
• 2010: 48th
• 2005: 48th
• appeared on all three lists

BoardGameGeek

• rank: 620
• rating: 6.80

Print Status

• OOP

Why It's On The List

• A negotiation game - well, actually a bartering game - with multiple ways to enhance your score... and the dice add a nice helping of uncertainty & tension.

Tips & Tricks:

• It plays best with 4 players.
• While I've been warned that there was/is a potential kingmaker problem, it's never been an issue for me.

Extras

• The game was reimagined as Edel, Stein & Reich (published by Alea but never in English)... while that's a fine game that will allow five people to play, I like Basari better.
• It's almost themeless - though someone once suggested it's about young Arab merchants trying to prove their worth as potential husbands to a caliph in fame [vp's], wealth [gems], and physical process [circling the board]... but it's nowhere in the rules themselves!
• Here's what I wrote about Basari for The One Hundred.