御用達 (Royal Warrant)

Set during the Edo period, 御用達 (Royal Warrant) pits the player merchants against one another in a castle town rules by a tiger lord. Players need to bribe influential people with their five bidding tokens (numbered 1-5) in order to acquire goods and deliver them to samurai.

Publisher's summary: Players will be merchants of the animal land in fictional Japanese Edo era. In this game, they compete for the leader position. Each player has chips that are assigned value of 1-5 and they bid a chip, hiding the value each round.

In turn, each player puts a chip on any area of the board. After each player has put all their five chips on the board, the value of chips are revealed and the totals compared in each area. The player who put the highest value can use the special effect of the area. The effects are various. For example, you can get goods, you can win victory points, and so on. Once six rounds are over, the player with the most victory points is the winner.

Publisher's summary: 江戸時代の動物の国の商人になって、地位を競うゲームです。 各自1～5のチップを持っており、それを使ったブラインドの競りを毎ラウンド行います。手番が来たら自分のチップを1枚ボード上の好きなエリアに置きます。 全員が5枚のチップを置いたら、各エリアの数字を比べて大きい人がそのエリアの権利を得ます。商品を獲得したり、それを使って勝利点を獲得したりとエリアの効果は様々です。 6ラウンド終了時に、最も勝利点を獲得しているプレイヤーが勝者です。