During this phase, you can offer bribes to the sheriff to not open your bag or to open all other player’s bags or maybe gang up with several players to bribe the sheriff to open your nan’s bag because she has been lying all night and getting away with it. The Sherriff now decides which, if any, merchant bags they wish to inspect. The rules say to look directly at the sheriff while you make your declaration which makes for some fantastic ‘innocent butter wouldn’t melt’ face pulling. You must tell the truth about the exact number of goods in the bag and you can only declare one type of legal goods such as 3 chickens, however, if you only had 1 chicken, 1 bottle of wine and 1 crossbow you would still declare 3 chickens.

Phase 3ĭeclaration (let the lying commence), each player in turn must disclose to the Sheriff what is in their bag. Whatever your choice once you close the bag you may not change your mind and open the bag again. Or you could put 2 chickens and a crossbow (contraband) in your bag. You have to place between 1 and 5 goods in the bag (from your hand) and you could be an honest merchant and just place 3 chickens and close your bag. Loading the Merchant Bag is where you decide what goods you would like to get past the sheriff and this is where you can be very clever and sneaky with your choices. This has a push your luck element to the game as you may obtain all new contraband cards. The aim of this is to obtain more of the same sets such as 4 apples or 3 cheeses. Market is where you discard cards from your hand, which go in a face-up discard pile and take new cards from the face-down deck. Please now prepare to be lied to, manipulated, not trusted and accused of several wrongdoings. One player is chosen to be the Sheriff of Nottingham 1st and the game is ready. Give everyone a player board (merchant stand) and matching merchant bag and a starting amount of 50 gold.ĭeal 6 cards to each player which they keep hidden from everyone else. To setup the game you shuffle the cards made up of 4 types of legal goods and several types of contraband goods. The reason the kids will win is in the gameplay which is all about lying and manipulation and kids are great at that. You can play a game with the younger members of your family mixed in with the adults and more often than not the kids will win. Sheriff of Nottingham 2nd edition printing is perfect for a game night or family meet up. Sheriff of Nottingham (2nd edition) is one of those rare beasts. Some games will even keep the attention of those people that say they don’t enjoy playing games.

It makes people laugh and shout and they keep on talking about the game long after it has been put away. Also offers very few rules but just enough to keep everyone focused on their objective.

It somehow manages to attract everyone to the table with its presence and keeps them there with its gameplay. The game box contains 110 Gold Coins, 216 Goods cards, 6 Deputy cards, 6 Black Market cards, 2 Deputy standees, 6 Merchant stands, 6 Merchant bags, a Sheriff standee, a Booty tile, and a rulebook.Every so often a game comes along that you can show to serious gamers and non-gamers alike and it is a hit with both. This new edition includes updated rules, as well as expansions such as the 6th Merchant, Black Market, and Sheriff’s Deputies. The Sheriff can inspect any bag they want, but they must be careful, as they’ll have to pay a penalty if they find the Merchants were telling the truth. In Sheriff of Nottingham 2nd Edition, players take turns playing the Sheriff, looking for contraband goods, and the Merchants trying to stock their Stall with the best goods. Which Merchant will end up getting the best goods through and make the largest profits in the market stalls? The Sheriff’s shrewd, but not above taking a bribe to look the other way.

He’s tasked the Sheriff to inspect Merchant’s wares, looking for any illicit goods. Most of it is entirely legal, however, Prince John is looking to make sure no contraband gets sold. The bustling market in Nottingham is filled with goods from all over the kingdom.

Will the Merchants get their goods past the Sheriff?

Sheriff of nottingham game 2nd edition