This game is definitely one for a small group. Personally, I was having so much fun that at times I didn’t care if my goods made it past the sheriff because we were laughing so much. The games strength rests in the ability to enter into this made up world and have fun trading goods. Bringing a satchel of apples to the sheriff usually came with a story about the health of our orchards or how we planned to bake pies for orphans. We found ourselves giving our fictitious characters names and weird accents. The 5 different player cards included with the game do a great job of giving everyone a fun character to act out. After our first round of play, the people at the table started to act out their part and tell hilarious back stories on why they were submitting 3 loaves of bread to the sheriff. The card art is fun and everything from the satchels to the cardboard coins work really well together. One thing that Sheriff of Nottingham does well is that it sets a scene for the players. Players that were consistent and focused on collecting specific goods for their market earned lots of money. Even with this game mechanic, this didn’t equal a win for the player. It’s completely legal to bribe the sheriff to look the other way as you try to move contraband such as expensive foods, mead and crossbows into the city. After the kids played a couple rounds, we feel like 10+ is a good age of entry for this game. What we found was that many times, honesty and being focused on transporting the right goods won most often. When we first played this game, we had some concern about introducing a game to our kids that encouraged bribing and bluffing to line their pockets with money. On the other hand, the sheriff has to pay the merchant if they were being truthful about the contents of the inspected goods. If the sheriff catches the merchant in a lie, they’ll have to pay a fee for the unclaimed goods. If the sheriff thinks the merchant is lying, he or she can check the goods that are contained in that players color coded satchel. Merchants will declare what items they are transporting through the city gates to the sheriff. Each of the merchants present a bag of goods that contain cheese, chickens, bread, apples or illegal materials. Will you take the role of an honest merchant, or will you try to smuggle costly contraband through the city gates?Įach player gets an opportunity to play the role of the sheriff twice during a game (three times in a 3-player game). Players take on the role of merchants that are transporting goods through the city gates that are controlled by the shrewd or gullible sheriff. It’s easy to see why Sheriff of Nottingham won the Origins Award in 2015.
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