Lmao

thanks for the tip!

I ask my friends to just put the cards inside and close it by putting the flap inside of the bag itself.

acabado Hearing the snap close is part of the game, though, since it signals when it's too late to continue negotiations with the Sheriff, for example. But if it works, it works.

yes. the snaps are horrible.

I think it may be Nothing Personal.

Thanks so much, Jighm Brown!

Manila is being reprinted this year by Zoch Verlag.

I was also sold on to on the 24 hour show.

Chad McKnight Same. After seeing the artwork I immediately pre ordered.

Looks like he was smart to include the game in that show since I also preordered because of that! :)

I'm sure the goods are still distinguishable based on their picture and text; there's also that chart that can be leveraged to tell you which goods are legal/illegal. It seems like there's only a handful of legal ones, and the rest are illegal.

James Pedid yeah, there is no distinguishing marks for legal/illegal goods, and while I think it would have been a good addition, it isn't actually that big of a deal. I own the game now and there are only 4 types of legal goods. Everything else (even the promos) are contraband. Still, a different texture or icon of some sort for color blind players would be cool.

yum X That's true, though there is still no indicator on non-Royal Goods contraband beyond the color. It isn't hard to determine if something is contraband by the name alone. As you said, legal good are listed on player boards, but I still think it would be good to have some sort of icon or different pattern on the contraband. It is something that ends up being really trivial, but it still would have been a nice touch to give red/green colorblind people all the information right on the cards instead of relying on the players' memory or having them refer to a separate sheet. But like I said, its mostly trivial as you will easily learn what is legal and what isn't after playing the game for 10 minutes.

Within the same round is binding - if I say "Sheriff, I'll give you 10 coins to open player X's bag now", then if the Sheriff accepts the bribe, they HAVE to check the other player's bag. However, the deal you proposed (do X for future benefit) is not binding, as far as I know. You can lie, but then no one will believe you in the future.

That's unrelated, I think. The number in the top right hand card is the gold value, the number in the bottom right is the penalty value. The "counts as two cheese" rule, I think, is the text under the card's name.

BAG_217 Hey there, I am not Tom and this is two months late but here goes. You're absolutely allowed to do things like that, the negotiation is open between all players during that phase. You can make bargains involving other players or simply waste the sheriff's time by sidetracking if that's your plan. Any agreements made that can be satisfied the same round must be honoured (agreeing to search other people's bags, making payments from the bag or market stand etc.) Any parts of a deal that involve future rounds (like "I'll let you through when I'm sheriff next") are not binding: you can live up to your promise or choose not to when the time comes.

Thank you for the reply!!! It's nice to have a definite answer

haha that makes it sound more fun.. and I want to play it now haha

Coins are used to bribe the sheriff or pay penalties if you get caught with contraband. Or, if you are the sheriff, to pay the other players if you open the bag and you found only legal goods.

Mike B my guess is easy for players to get change frm bank in order to bribe sheriff lets say this player wants to give Sheriff 8 coins so he wont check his bag, but he only got a 20 coin value of single coin, so he change for smaller change frm bank and give 8 to sheriff

They can be used at the end of the game to count up victory points.

They were probably not illegal, just heavily taxed.

Good answer!

lordcactuar Trade of luxury goods often were restricted in different ways to funnel them through power-backed monopolies. A tale could be spun that they could corrupt the less fortunate to hedony. Green apples?! Think of the children! Silk and pepper specifically would have been imported too, so what Derrick Marais said especially applies.

maybe they're reserved for royalty only, so it's illegal to sell them to others outside the kingdom or take them when they're supposed to go to the king and his family?

Because there were no female merchants in the middle ages?

Just go away with your SJW bull****, please and let us enjoy the game.

Daniel Dukai nothing SJW about their comment. Unless you think diversity is wrong?

Curratum of course there were lol. There were also women in charge of entire towns and villages. What are you smoking?

Nick Clinite You see this is a psychology game.you can give bribes to make them think you have illegal goods when you don't to get them to pay the fee. Also the contraband have a 4 penalty fee and a 8 payoff. so if u bribe 5 both the sheriff and the player gets money. The point of illegal goods is to get extra money because they can go with the legal goods.

Derpy Panda I know it's supposed to be psychology, but it's a form of psychology where I feel I have nothing solid to base my scheming on. I've played the game twice, and the act of bribing feels like a total crap-shoot--it could either make them look, or not look, or not look but they weren't going to look anyway so you're out of a bribe, with no way of knowing ahead of time, so you might as well never bribe and then they can never get a read on you since you're too consistent.

Nick Clinite Well you could do that and win

Teeto That's kinda the problem though: essentially I'm saying the move that feels most reliable is to just not participate in the game. And that's never a good thing for a game to feel like to its players.

This game is all about the experience...if you are heavily concerned about winning this may not be the game for you since you can do boring things(always tell the truth, never bribe, etc) and still have a chance at winning. But this game becomes fun when everyone gets involved in the experience of it all instead of worrying about making sure that winning is the only thing that matters. To me, most party type games or interactive games like this is about the experience....if I want to play a game competitively and to win win win, then I'm not playing a party type game like this.

The promo cards were designed AFTER the game, so nothing was taken out of the original game.

Oh well. Then we can call it a huge design error. This game is flawed, therefore a NO-BUY at least for me.

Munteanu Catalin My apologies if you think so. I don't find the game flawed at all.

+Munteanu Catalin That is not entirely true. People that say the truth can win, yes, but people who know how to lie creatively can wind up pulling tremendous upsets. For example, in round 1 of the game, I was completely honest, but I used that to manipulate people later on as I rammed all of my contraband in the bag and convinced them that it was full of nothing but cheese. Said contraband gave me a whopping 27 gold in one play.

+DarthMessias care to suggest any? I would be interested to see what others may be better

+DarthMessias I think that games like these do a lot better if you inject a lot of personality into it. Going on its own merit, Sheriff will quickly become boring, but inject some sass and cheeziness in there, and you've got yourself a great game.