Marketplace in the Main Board

Marketplace integrated with Village on main board.

The values in the marketplace are the only thing that varies based on the number of players. That's because the number of exploration tiles (and the length of the game) remains constant, meaning that with fewer players, each gets more resources. If the values in a two player game were as high as in a five player game, the two players would exceed the score tracks.

Until now this was achieved by having a double sided mat. In first edition it was the top 1/3 of the board, in the original printing of 2nd edition it was an 8"x2" mat that sat on top of the board and slid all over the place until I made corner pockets to hold it. This solution was not repeatable, and the mat added extra cost to the game.

Here's my first sketch of the new idea for having both sets of numbers co-exist:

And here's what my first pass at the graphic design looks like. You can see it with the value tiles revealing only the correct set of numbers for a three player game at the top of this post.