Spice Trade Strategy Board Game: Scent-Based Adventure

With gold and silver coins in your chests and barrels of provisions in your holds, set off across the oceans to return with a cargo of spices you’ve carefully selected by scent. This olfactory, strategic game lets you experience wild adventures at sea! Charter ships to conquer new territories and secure a monopoly on spices—that was the goal of the various East India Companies in the 17th and 18th centuries. Relive that saga by learning to recognize the smell of spices so you can buy them at the best price, then resell them to grow richer along the way. To win, race back to Europe with your precious cargo, eagerly awaited in Europe’s markets. Thanks to this strategic, sensory game, you’ll step into the shoes of early navigators, understand the mechanics of global trade, and discover—by nose—16 spices with distinctive aromas that were used as much for healing as for flavoring food. - 1 game board - 16 spice diffusers - 5 ship pawns - 66 cards - 54 coins - 72 spice bales - 9 small barrels