Emira Board Game

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Emira designed by Liesbeth Vanzeir and Paul Van Hove, published by Phalanx Games / Mayfair $36.95      Save $8.05 off list price of $45.00! 75 - 100 minutes for 3 to 5 players ages 12 to adult    Availability Info Condition: New

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Awards Winner of the 1st place prize at the 16th Game Authors Competition of the Hippodice Spieleclub e.V. Game Contents Game Board, 5 Player Boards, 15 Wooden Discs, First Player Marker, 16 Goal Cards, 54 Event Cards. 28 Emira Cards, 22 Status Cards, 23 Camels, 20 Palace Sections, 39 "Appearance" Counters, "Gold" Coins, 24 Wooden Caravan Tokens, Cloth Bag, Full-Color Rulebook, all in a box approximately 14" x 10" x 2.1"

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In Emira you and your fellow players are rich oriental sheiks from a time long past. You hope to convince a number of princesses, or 'Emiras' to join your palace household. To gain their favor, you must make yourself as attractive as possible - for in your desert homeland, the women decide who is attractive! Only a lucky or resourceful sheik can hope to welcome an Emira into his palace. To achieve your goal, you might need to improve your appearance, increase your status, or even build an extra wing onto your palace. Of course, a sheik needs gold to do all this! So, you must invest in the lucrative spice trade to earn more gold. The first sheik that attracts the required number of appropriate Emiras (depending on his secret preference and the number of players) is the winner!

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As a wealthy desert sheikh, you have many needs, such as a wise advisor, a talented cook, or maybe a well-organized housekeeper? Or, maybe you seek the romance of a beautiful companion? But are you attractive enough to convince the princess to join your house and provide you with the skills you need to achieve your secret goals? Only a lucky or resourceful sheikh can hope to welcome an Emira into his palace. Because in this distant desert land, it is the princess who chooses which palace she will join!

As a desert sheikh, you will need to invest in the lucrative spice trade to furnish yourelf with the wealth to improve your appearance, enlarge your palace, and expand your status in the kingdom so that the princesses will choose you instead of another sheik. But mind your funds carefully: these independent and self-confident princesses will not stay if you cannot provide them with the life of comfort that they have come to expect!

Emira is a satirical, historically themed game about desert nobles trying to attract princesses to join their household. While we neither glorify nor recommend setting up a harem, it sure is fun to watch those sheiks try to win over the self-confident and emancipated princesses!

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