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Setup

Each player receives a Merchant card, an initial capital of 25 florins and 3 random Special Orders (if playing with the Special Orders variant).

Rounds

The game is played over two rounds (days). In each round, all players take their turn as a Seller once.

Turn Order

In each turn there is an active player (the Seller), starting in the first round with the player with the lowest priority number and continuing in the next turn with the player with the next highest, and so on.

Player's Turn

A player's turn is divided into the following steps:

1. Income: All players receive income based on their merchant and the cards they own.
2. New cards: The Seller reveals flower cards up until the sum of their initial values is 20 or 21.
3. Create bouquets: The Seller splits their flower cards in 3 bouquets and sets each bouquet for auction.
4. Auction: Players bid in any order. At the end the highest bidder gains the cards and pay the seller.
5. Buy or sell: Seller can keep the cards of a bouquet by paying the highest bidder half of the money offered, rounded up.

After all the bouquets have been auctioned, the next player becomes the seller and so on.

Loans

A player may place a bid for a bouquet but not have enough money to pay for it. In this case, they can declare that they will take a loan at the end of the auction, in case they win the bouquet. Each loan yields 20 florins and a loan tile. Each player can get up to 2 loan tiles during the course of the game. At the end of the game, each player loses 30 points for each loan tile they hold.

Game End

The game ends at the end of the 2nd round after all players have become the Seller twice during the game.

Scoring

Players gain points for sets of distinct flower cards, identical flower cards, money, special cards and special order cards. They also lose points for loans and weeds. The player with the most points becomes the most prestigious merchant!

Money

Players get 1 point for every Florin they have collected.

Flower cards

Players get points based on the quantity of distinct / identical flowers they possess:

Qty		Points		Qty		Points
1	1x1	1		10	10x10	100
2	2x2	4		11	11x11	121
3	3x3	9		12	12x12	144
4	4x4	16		13	13x13	169
5	5x5	25		14	14x14	196
6	6x6	36		15	15x15	225
7	7x7	49		16	16x16	256
8	8x8	64		17	17x17	289
9	9x9	81		...	...	...

Loans

Players lose 30 Points for each loan taken.

Variants

Weeds

Weeds are cards with a negative starting value. Weed cards are not considered flower cards.

Each player at the end of the game loses points depending on the number of weeds in his possession:

Weeds	Points		Weeds	Points		Weeds	Points
1	-5		6	-45		11	-110
2	-11		7	-56		12	-125
3	-18		8	-68		13	-140
4	-26		9	--81		14	-155
5	-35		10	-95		15	-170

Special Orders

All players receive three special order cards at the beginning of the game, which give them an extra chance to earn points at the end of the game. 

6th Player

• When revealing new cards, the seller reveals flower cards until the sum of their initial values is 17 or 18.
• Each player receives 2 Special Orders.