Silk Road Games:
Age of Schemes (2008) · Akaba (2004) · Al Rashid (2012) · Aladdin and the Magic Lamp (1960) · Aladdin (1970) · Aladdin's Erbe (1987) · Aladdin's Lamp Game, The (1992) · Aladdin's Dragons (2000) · Aladdin the Magic Carpet Game (1992) · Aladdin's Sounds of Fun Electronic Talking Board Game (1992) · Aladin's fliegender Teppich (2015) · Ali (2012) · Ali Baba (1993) · Ali Baba (1999) · Ali Baba (2002) · Ali Babas Beute (1983) · Arabian Nights (2009) · Arabian Nights Flying Carpet Game (1972) · Asia Crossroads (2003) · Asian Travels (?) · Auf den Spuren des Marco Polo (2004) · Bakschisch (1995) · Basari (1998) · Bazaar (1967) · Bazaar (1986) · Caravans of Asia (2012) · Caravans of Asia: Arabian Sails (2012) · Caravansérail (1996) · Da Geht Was Ab im Morgenland (1995) · Der Dieb von Maradad (1993) · Die Diebe von Bagdad (1999) · Dschamál (2005) · Emira (2006) · Les Fils de Samarande (2005) · Five Tribes (2014) · Fliegende Teppich (1987) · Fliegende Teppiche (2011) · Flying Carpet (1987) · Game of Arabian Nights (1940) · Geschichten aus 1001 Nacht (1999) · Der gestohlene Harem oder die falschen Eunuchen (1992) · Istanbul (2014) · Jewels of the Sultan (2014) · The Journey to Tianzhu (1998) · Karawane (1990) · Karawane (2008) · Karawanix (2016) · Kashgar: Händler der Seidenstraße (2013) · Le Marché de Samarkand (2010) · Marco Polo (1983) · Marco Polo: Dragonda (1982) · Marco Polo Reisespiele (1996) · Marco Polo Reise-Spiel Deutschland (1996) · Marco Polo Reise-Spiel Frankreich (1996) · Marco Polo Reise-Spiel Italien (1996) · Medina (2001) · Merchants of Araby (2017) · Morgenland (2000) · Oasis (1999) · 1001 (2016) · Orient Bazaar (2010) · Orient-Bazar · Palmyra (1996) · Palmyra (2013) · Die Perlen der Scheherezade (1992) · Riquezas do Sultão (2007) · Samarcanda (?) · Samarkand (1999) · Samarkand:  Routes to Riches (2010) · Die Schätze des Ali Baba (1999) · Schnapp die Schätze (2015) · Die Seidenstraße (1997) · Seidenstraße (2009) · Serica: Plains of Dust (2011) · Silk Road (1985) · Silk: Road Maker (2009) · Sindbad (1990) · Sindbad: Das Große Abenteuer-Spiel (1978) · Six Sons of the Sultan (2014) · Spice Merchant (2012) · Sultan (2009) · Sultan's Library (2016) · Sultaniya (2013) · Sultans of Wind (2016) · Tales & Games: Aladdin & The Magic Lamp (2016) · Tales of Arabia (2001) · Tales of the Arabian Nights (1985) · Taschkent (2012) · Taschkent Erweiterung (2016) · The Thieves of Bagdad (1999) · 1000 und ein Schatz (2010) · 1001 Karawane (2007) · Verrat! (1999) · Viziers (2012) · Les Voleurs de Bagdad (1999) · The Voyages of Marco Polo (2015) · Yspahan: (2006) · Yspahan: The Souks (2009)
Related Games:
Abdul's Adventure (2000) · Blazing Camels (1996) · Caravaneers (2008) · Caravans of Ahldarahd (2008) · Desert Bazaar (2006) · Durch die Wüste (1997) · Im Reich der Wüstensöhne (2008) · Kameltreiber (1996) · Kameltreiber AG (1989) · Das Letze Kamel (1988) · Muscat (2001) · Nomadi (1995) · Nomads of Arabia (2006) · Oasis (2004) · Saba (2007) · Sahara (1990) · So Ein Kamel (1985) · Targui (1988) · Through the Desert (1997) · Timbuktu (1993) · Wabanti (1995)
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2017
Merchants of Araby Jay E. Treet, III; Daily Magic Games-(forthcoming)2017; 2-4; x Negotiation and worker placement game of merchants trying to earn the most money. Caravan cards represent journeys to other cities. Opponents can offer to add their own camels to your caravans. There are also cards representing genies, virtues, allies, etc.
2016
Karawanix Robert Bayer, Elisabeth Draxler, Herta Strehl, Sonja Trausmuth; Piatnik-2016; 2-6; 35; 5+ Cooperative game for children of players traveling through the desert. Problems to overcome include sandstorms and mirages.
1001 David Duperret, Vincent Greco; TIKI Editions-2016; 2-8; 30-45; 8+ Players represent the spirits of the four winds that guide Aladdin's flying carpet, trying get Aladdin to collect resources needed to build a palace and capture the moon and stars for the princess. Players alsoscore by successfully predicting the actions of the opposing team and helping the Vizier to block them.
Sultan's Library Ryno Lourens; Photon Games-2016; 2-5; 20-60 Players represent Envoys who travel looking for books of knowledge. Whoever gains the most wins. The player's basic action is dictated by the draw of two cards. Then they allocate exploration points to search for books, pick them up or deposit them. The game ends after someone has deposited three books.
Sultans of Wind Jan Meyberg; Desyllas Games-2016; 2-4; 40 8+ Game of programming the moves of your flying carpets through a changeable maze of clouds to win a race.
Tales & Games: Aladdin & The Magic Lamp Tiago Damey; IELLO/Purple Brain Creations; 2-5; 20; 8+ Simultaneous press-your-luck game of entering a cave to find the fabled magic lamp, as well as other treasures. Results are determined by drawing cards, the number of which the player must decide in advance.
Taschkent Erweiterung Peer Sylvester; Mücke Spiele; 2-4; 8+ Expansion to Taschkent (2012) adds followers, which can enable earning more points, and statues, that can be rebuilt by first collecting all their separated parts, again to gain points.
2015
Aladin's fliegender Teppich Jean-François Rochas; Goliath-2015; 2; 15; 4+ Players take treasures from a pouch and put them on a carpet, kept aloft by magnetism, trying to avoid making it fall. Title means: Aladdin's Flying Carpet.
Schnapp die Schätze Günter & Lena Burkhardt; HABA-2015; 2-6; 15; 5+ "Snatch the treasures" is a dexterity game of stacking a silver column, a flying carpet, a magic lamp and more on a silver column.
The Voyages of Marco Polo Simone Luciani, Daniele Tascini; Hans im Glück/Z-Man Games-2015; 2-4; 40-100 2015 Deutscher Spiele Preis winner as Auf den Spuren von Marco Polo. Players recreate Marco Polo's 1271-5 AD journey to Beijing (then called Dadu). Each player represents a particular character with special ability. Dice drive the action as each player rolls five to start the turn and then uses them to perform actions like getting resources, camels, earning money, taking orders and traveling. The winner after five rounds is the one who has the most victory points for distance traveled, orders fulfilled and secret travel conditions.

2014
Five Tribes Bruno Cathala; Days of Wonder-2014; 2-4; 60 Game based on the ancient game of Mancala in which pieces begin in many places and a player picks up all the pieces in one space and drops them one-by-one, leaving a trail of pieces to a new location. At the ending location on this modular 6x6 grid whose arrangement differs with every match, the player claims the final piece and any others of matching color (there being five colors in all). Each color provides a different benefit, e.g. a simple majority game, enabling a set collection game, a game based on the values printed on surrounding tiles and even an assasins game which enables killing a piece on the board or in a player's holdings. There are also special djinn (genie) cards that offer special abilities. There are quite a few such cards, but it seems relatively few can get claimed before play is over; some seem quite a bit more powerful than others as well. Turn order is by auction of victory points. Clearing the final tile of pieces permits claiming it with one's wooden camel piece, with points being printed on the tile. Each tile also affords a special action such as placing a wooden palm tree or palace that give extra points or the chances to buy cards, for example. A game which may be prone to analysis-paralysis as one seeks to find the perfect location which maximizes several things at once. Unfortunately it does not go faster toward the end because the lack of pieces makes merely legal plays much more difficult, not to mention those of benefit to the player. While it's ifficult to make sense of it all thematically, it's nice to see that someone is trying to revive/do something with Mancala.
Istanbul Rüdiger Dorn; Pegasus Spiele-2014; 2-5; 50 Similar to Five Tribes the modular board is composed of sixteen locations in a square, different arrangements of which are possible (though not completely random). Each bazaar location offers a different action that the player takes when landing there. Each player owns a stack of five disks and each move to another tile leaves a disk behind. When placing the last disk, the player has no choice but to retrace his steps like a recoiling spring. Actions include buying diamonds, buying other goods, increasing carrying capacity, selling goods and acquiring special abilities. A very interesting and useful on is the casino where the player names a number and wins if the dice roll is higher than the number, but the higher the number, the more the win. Seems somewhat susceptible to certain recipes or cliches that are likely to win every time, especially for the first player.
Six Sons of the Sultan Todd Sanders; Air and Nothingness Press-2014; 1-2; 20 Players try to supply various kinds of tea to the Sultan’s sons. Each has a different cost, prestige value and special ability. This is a print-and-play game that includes 9 cards, 3 dice and some cubes. Players roll dice to begin the turn, assigning two of them to various purposes and passing the third to the other player to use. With these dice results they gain wealth that they can use to buy tea, the amount and type available also being determined by the dice roll. Players also move along a track to gain points.
2013
Kashgar: Händler der Seidenstraße  Gerhard Hecht; Kosmos-2013; 2-4 In "Kashgar: Silk Road Traders", named after the city in the middle of Silk Road, today at the western edge of China, players begin with three cards, each a family member offering a differing capability. A turn consists of choosing one of the abilities and executing the indicated action. This card is then placed at the back of the caravan, becoming unusable until all of the other cards have been. Players collect mules, spice and gold on their own boards. It's also important to collect new family members – effectively this is a deck building game – offering more abilities, including those that affect other players. Premier: Essen Spiel 2013. This may have originally been on another theme as there are several oddities such as mules rather than camels and despite the Silk Road allusion, there is no actual travel. Cards such as Nobles and Aristocrats don't seem to fit in well either. Play seems somewhat claustrophobic with a turn permitting only the choice of one of three cards to play, and the next turn being two-thirds the same. Worse, there is a lot of dependence on getting particular cards that are only generated randomly. Rules Translation
Sultaniya Charles Chevallier; Bombyx-2013; 2-4; 45; 8+ Tile-laying game of building the most beautiful palace for the new sultan. As in Dominoes, new tiles must match those already present. Each player has secret objectives.

2012
Al Rashid (2012) Giorgio De Michele and Pierluca Zizzi; Yemaia; 2-5 In the 8th century players represent heads of powerful families. Family members (worker placement) engage in trade, travel and influence over Al Rashid. Worker types include merchant, sage and pasha. Resource types include wood, pottery, metal, spice and silk. There is no currency; purchases do not provide change. Raiders appears on the map randomly; hired mercenaries can help with this. Also employs the variable phase order mechanism.
Ali (2012) Antoine Bauza and Corentin Lebrat; Libellud; 3-5; 8+ Fifteen minute press-your-luck memory game in which you must correctly remember and repeat the growing list of treasures that have been stolen so far. Includes 45 attractive cards illustrated by Stéphane Poinsot.
Caravans of Asia (2012) Joseph Fatula; The Lumenaris Group; 2-6 The 17-piece puzzle map displays Silk Road trade routes from China to Constantinople. In the Mongol period of the 14th and 15th centuries, players represent traders who begin in different cities, each with three event cards. Item types include silk, spice, incense, glass and jade. These appear in random cities via the dice and cost fixed prices. Each trader carries only one item at a time. Selling is possible if the city has an printed price for the item and does not already have two of that item sold there. New items of this type appear when none are available for purchase. Mountains have significant influence on movement, bandits on your pocketbook. Land movement is at a fixed rate; sea movement is controlled by die roll. Players can be eliminated early if they run out of money, though loans are available in any city. The Lumenaris Group
Palmyra Bernd Eisenstein; Irongames-2013; 1-5; 45 In the first century AD, Caesar instructs his legates to expand Rome's influence in this far eastern province by annexing new lands and farming taxes. The most successful player becomes the new governor. This tile-layer also includes an army and censor for each player plus money. By the inventor of Peloponnes and Maya.
Caravans of Asia: Arabian Sails (2012) Joseph Fatula; The Lumenaris Group; 2-6 Adds nine board pieces, item types of tea and slaves and twelve event cards. Also adds ships as a new caravan type that travels on the seas. The wind alternates and may blow ships off course. The Lumenaris Group
Spice Merchant (2012) Gun-Hee Kim; Bombyx/Deinko Games; 3-4 Game of cards, which represent both goods and stocks in the value of those goods. There are six types of spice and each player begins with a hand of seven. On a turn a player either displays ownership of one stock card by revealing it or plays one to four cards of the same type on one of the six markets. The latter forces the sole type of the market used. Then the hand is refilled. When all markets are full, players reveal their secret stocks and cash them out depending on the markets. This sequence is repeated four times to determine a winner.
Taschkent (2012) Peer Sylvester; Mücke Spiele; 2-4; 8+ Running across the center of the board is a "linear rondel" which players traverse to take various types of actions. On one side is a map where jewels rest at various locations while the other is used to store supplies. Actions player take include traveling, buying, selling and building trading posts. The goal is actually to acquire the most victory points. During the variable action phase, the players can built huts as storage. Alternatively, inside the caravan they can get money, goods, action cards, or materials needed for the trading. During the trading phase, the players can exchange the collected goods for money or other valuables that will bring victory points.
Viziers Justin Thomas; The Game Crafter-2012; 2-6; 60 Each player governs an oasis that he tries to develop by enticing caravans while fending off raiders. With increasing wealth, make discoveries and build edifices of learning, beauty and defense. Play revolves around a auctions of cards which are paid for with resources. After the auction each card is resolved in numerical order.
2011
Fliegende Teppiche (2011) Lorenz Kutschke; Adlung-Spiele; 2-4; 8+ "Flying Carpets" sees players steering for the locations having the most points. They set up their portion of the 52 destination cards any way they like, so long as each is no more than a card width away from another card. Then players take turns flying this route, by tossing their carpet cards and claiming those cards on which it lands. Conflicts are resolved by the genie cards that players hold, and the losing player gets the winner's genie. Raw points and set collection determine the score, magic lamps cancelling the negative effects of deserts.
Serica: Plains of Dust Todd Sanders; (web published)-2011; 2; 30 One player is the Roman empire and the other the Han Dynasty, at about 200 AD. Players employ drafted cards to direct rade caravans and build depots, military and architecture. Includes map, 6 pawns, 54 cards and 33 cubes, including those representing six different types of trade goods.
2010
Le Marché de Samarkand Loic Billiau; Krok Nik Douil Editions-2010; 3-5; 8+ A Dutch auction game (a high price is set and progressively lower prices are called out until the first player says stop and thereby wins the bid). Players take turns being the auctioneer of one of the ten cards they hold in hand. The value of the cards one collects accelerates as the number of them grows. Players need to buy not only commodities, but also camels to carry them. On the other hand, camels that end up not having any loads to carry cost in points. Luding
Orient Bazaar Jesper C. Nielsen; Lego-2010; 2-4; 7+ Set collection game of traveling to various bazzars to buy exotic items. The more you get of one type, the more they are worth. It's also possible to swap with other players. Includes dice.
Samarkand: Routes to Riches David V.H. Peters & Harry Wu; Queen Games-2010; 2-5; 8+ In 400 AD players are extending trade routes through the Middle East and Central Asia. This is a re-development of Age of Schemes (2008). In this era, trade was a journey, not a track, railroad or highway. How then to explain that here the main activity of the players is making tracks? Because it's a railroad game masquerading as something else. Nations like Egypt or the Huns stand in for companies. Marriage alliances stand in for owning shares. The map shows the entire Middle East divided up into a great many irregular regions, most of which do not appear to have any historical meaning. Review Luding Check Prices
1000 und ein Schatz Marco Teubner; HABA-2010; 2-4; 5+ True to its title, "A thousand and 1 Treasures" is about the discovery of the treasure cave of the 40 thieves; players have just discovered this cave when they notice on the distant horizon, the thieves making their return. Who can stash the most treasure on his donkey and still get clean away? The board forms a 5x4 grid on which can be placed some of the 60 cave tiles (19 of them showing a cave entrance which serve as the starting tiles). There are player figures, a bandit chief and a die. Each tile shows 1-3 treasures and a figure's starting tile thus determines its orthogonal movement rate for a turn. Figures block other figures as well, though if you are completel blocked the genie moves you anywhere you like. Once you leave the cave you cannot return, but you do pick up each tile as treasure each time you leave it; these are replaced from the supply. Drawing a tile that shows the bandits moves them one step closer to the cave entrance. If they reach the entrance, any players still inside lose. The die enables a variant for younger players who roll it and move the number of dots shown. In this case it's not necessary to leave the cave; you always retain your treasures. Luding
2009
Arabian Nights José Carlos de Diego Guerrero; web-published-2009; 2-5 As of April 2010 a web-published tile-laying game in which Basra must be liberated from the evil vizier Jaffar so that Achmed may marry the princess. The playing area is composed of a grid of square tiles. Half of them are tiles over which the players will fight to claim while the other half are connection tiles. Each connection has assigned to it a random die. On a player's turn they roll a pair of dice and move their Abu figure to a connector tile with a die matching one of those they rolled. They may then place one of their tokens on a tile connected to this tile. Each of these claimable tiles has a number from 3 to 6 which is the number of tokens it needs to contain before it is claimed by its majority holder and replaced with a random new one. When it comes time to draw one of these replacements and the supply has run out, the winner is the player whose tile numbers total the highest. But only tiles for which the player is at least tied for having the most in that color count. There are also six separate special power tiles which are not really part of the board. Players can place tokens on these by means of rolling doubles and can later use their special powers by burning one of these tokens if they dominate the tile. Special powers including sic'ing Jaffar on another player, changing a connection, changing a tile's die, etc. There is some quite nice artwork here and some good ideas, but on the whole needs more development. If one or two dice values are not available on the tiles, players can experience a lot of do nothing turns, which is never fun (and thus strongly avoided by those designing the most modern game technology). Even worse, using Jaffar forces a player to lose a turn. Instead of becoming more vital and exciting, play toward the end tends to just peter out with each move becoming less valuable rather than more so. During the endgame for most there is almost nothing useful anyone can do. There are problems with vague instructions. Players may find themselves playing just to get it over with more than for any other goal. The connection tiles seem like a nice idea, but in practice almost never matter. Meanwhile they aren't used for movement, but instead players decisionmaking is almost entirely at the mercy of the dice. Duration is probably at least one-third too long for the amount of randomness involved. Download
Seidenstraße Hanno & Wilfried Kuhn; DDD Verlag-2009; 2-5 Players together move three caravans through the Silk Road, selling goods as profitably as possible while avoiding storms, thieves and customs inspectors. Each player turn has five phases: (1) play card(s) into personal display, move caravans, take cards, execute actions, place cards into the general display. Each war card played moves a caravan an additional space, but only one type may be played per player-turn. Which action is performed depends on where the player caused the caravan to land. Actions include Market Day (large or small), Black Market, Camels (1, 2 or 3) Customs House, Sandstorm, Robbers, Bazaar, Bribery. Includes 80 cards, 30 gems, 22 action tokens and 10 wooden disks. Duration: 1 hour. Luding
Silk Road Maker Erhan & Aydagul Cubukcuoglu; (web-published)-2009; 1-4 Each player has his own 5x5 grid board and thirty tiles. One player is the caller and draws a tile at random. All of the other players find the same tile in their stack and they all place on their boards as they wish. The goal is create continuous roads between cities, unthematically the longer the better. Some tiles contain multiple discrete paths which can make for challenging decisions. Luding
Sultan Séregio Halaban & André Zatz; Queen-2009; 2-5 Card game re-make of Riquezas do Sultão (2007). Luding
Yspahan: The Souks Sébastien Pauchon; Ystari/Rio Grande/Huch-2009; 2-5; 60; 8+ This expansion kit for Yspahan, part of the Ystari Box of Expansions for six different games, is a deck of eighteen replacement cards, conferring new abilities. It also affords a fifth player.

Caravaneers
Andrew Perkis; Games magazine (March 2009 issue)-2009; 2
On a desert grid, players attempt to guide 11 traveler pieces to their own caravanserais. Whoever brings more wins.