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Merchants


Equipment

1 Bag pasta shapes or macaroni
1 Bag dried peas or soya beans

Game Description

Split the pack or troop into 2 teams and give one team 6 macaroni (Gold) and the other team 6 dried peas (Silver). Explain that the teams should try to make as much money as possible in the time available. They may do this by trading with the 2 merchants (leaders) who will be roaming around. One merchant will give you 2 gold for 1 silver, the other will give you 2 silver for every 1 gold. The team with the most money by the end of the game wins (count silver and gold as equal value).

Refinement:

The merchants may swap their bags to confuse the players

Refinement:

Player and/or other leaders may steal from other players using tagging or lives.

Refinement:

Introduce another trading stage and merchant (and possibly another team) eg. bronze or platinum. Merchants only trade bronze for silver, silver for gold, gold for bronze.