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Merv: The Heart of the Silk Road (French Edition)

$29.95 CAD Regular price $74.95 CAD
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Game details

  • Fabio Lopiano Designer
  • 1–4 PlayersBest: 4Solo OK
  • 90 min Play time
  • 14 and up Age
  • ★ 7.5/ 10 BGG rating
  • #784 BGG rank
Complexity Heavier · 3.4 / 5

Awards & honors

  • 2021 Cardboard Republic Architect Laurel Nominee
  • 2021 Kanga Game of the Year Finalist
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  • 2021 Cardboard Republic Architect Laurel Nominee
  • 2021 Kanga Game of the Year Finalist
  • 2021 UK Games Expo Best New Boardgame (Euro-Style) Nominee
  • 2022 MinD-Spielepreis Complex Game Nominee
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Note: This game is in French.


Merv: The Heart of the Silk Road is a tense economic game charting the rise and fall of the greatest city in the world.

In Merv, players are vying to amass power and wealth in the prosperous heart of the Silk Road. Through careful court intrigue, timely donations to the grand mosque, and favorable trade deals, players attempt to redirect as much of that prosperity as possible into their own pockets.

Meanwhile, beyond the city walls Mongol hordes approach. If you help construct the city walls, you give up on precious opportunities to build up your own stature, but leave it unprotected and you will burn with the city. Every decision is weighty and the consequences of each misstep are dire. Will you rise to prominence or fade into oblivion?

—description from the publisher

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