Welcome to the bazaar! Will YOU be the craftiest merchant at the market today and sell the most rugs???
Marrakech is a fantastic gameschooling math/logic/problem solving game with some lovely visual elements and very nice quality wooden pieces. Assam is one of my favorite elements OF ALL TIME. (I am tempted to try to make some Christmas ornaments in his likeness, I love him so much!)
Components include:
- Assam
- Wooden dice – slippers indicate numbers
- Playing board
- Cloth rugs (of the softest velvetiest fabric!)
- Coins
Marrakech is a game for 2 -4 players and each player gets a set of rugs and 30 coins to begin.
Each turn has three parts:
- Move Assam: Decide in which direction to move him BEFORE rolling. Assam can move straight ahead or to the right or left. THEN roll the dice and move.
- Pay opponents: IF Assam lands on another player’s rug, you must pay 1 coin for each adjoining square (each rug is 2 squares) in that player’s color. When players land on their own rugs or empty spaces, no payment is required.
- Lay a rug: A newly laid rug must touch the square that Assam is on.
If at any point in the game a player runs out of money, he’s out! The other players continue and all players calculate their score at the end of the game.
Our favorite things about this game are having to choose which way to move before rolling and getting to cover up other players’ rugs! You can make a solid strategy that gets blasted into smithereens by another player covering up your rugs.
Assam can be a useful ally or an expensive traitor, depending on where the dice roll takes you. Either way, Marrakech is a really fun way to gameschool some math skills like arithmetic, spatial/visual awareness, probability, logic, strategy, and more!
Thanks so much to Gigamic Games for sharing this excellent family educational board game!
