Presentation

Gentleman’s Deal

Accept or not?

As an influential citizen in a wealthy town you share earnings from a shady deal with other citizens and win at the end with most money. In each round, one player is the dealer who offers a deal on sharing money and accomplices with other players of his choice and keeps the undistributed rest. As one of the non-dealers of the round you rout for a bigger share.

Deal cards are stacked face-down, accomplices are laid out, gang cards are set out next to the accomplices. The active dealer takes the top deal card which tells him the sum of money and the symbol of available accomplices to share out. Then the turn of the dealer comprises three phases: 1. Offer - The dealer names the sum he wants to hand out and also what amount of money and which accomplice(s) he will give to players. The other players discuss this offer and place counter-offers, then the dealer makes one final offer. 2. Voting - all non-dealer players vote on accepting or rejecting the offer - you can add two votes to your vote by using an argument token. In case of a tie the offer is considered to be accepted. 3. Resolving - The dealer shows the deal card. When the offer was accepted, money and accomplices are handed out, accomplices should be used, as you lose them at the start of the next turn. If you did not receive money or accomplice, you get a Gang card for an additional vote in the next round. When the offer is rejected, the dealer goes to prison, he cannot vote next round, and the deal is cancelled.

This is a quick cute game about clever offers and fast decisions, if necessary you need to limit discussion time. A nice filler game for large groups.

Players: 5-9

Age: 14+

Time: 30+

Designer: Yan Yegorov

Artist: Roman Novak, Lena Shlyuykova

Price: ca. 15 Euro

Publisher: Gaga Games 2016

Web: www.gaga-games.com

Genre: Share assigning, voting

Users: With friends

Special: Many players

Version: multi

Rules: de en + ru

In-game text: no

Comments:

Story nicely implemented

Plays quickly when discussion is limited

Well-working mechanism

Good for larger groups

Compares to:

Booty and other games on assigning shares by one player

Other editions:

Gaga Games (ru)

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0