RuleSage cited table rulings
← shelf

Merchant of Venus (Second Edition)

1–4 players · best with 3 · ~120–240 min to play · ages 14+ · 2012

complexity · Heavy

language · Moderate in-game text - needs crib sheet or paste ups (18 votes)

BGG 7.1/10 (3,987 ratings) · weight 3.0/5 · rank #1,359 View on BGG ↗

Questions here read: Merchant of Venus (Second Edition)bg-131646-en-1e

Questions asked here are kept, and join the public shelf once they clear a check. In a flood, questions RuleSage has to turn away are counted, not kept. RuleSage stores nothing about who asked; the web server's visit notebook, like every site's, notes each request's address for 30 days.

Asked 7 times · 3 answered · 4 honest abstains

🔧 answerability — what this table has actually asked
answered ratio
43% answered — 3 of 7 attributable asks
recent asks
1 of 7 asks in the last 30 days
outcome bucket asks
ANSWERED Answered answered 3
ABSTAINED Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below honest abstain 4
question (normalized) asked latest outcome
how do i play? asked 4 times Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below Sep 30, 2026 21:57 UTC
how do i take my turn? asked once Answered Oct 24, 2026 22:46 UTC
when does the game end? asked once Answered Sep 4, 2026 19:49 UTC
how do i setup the game? asked once Answered Sep 4, 2026 19:49 UTC
🔧 BGG — every figure this page shows, and where it came from
the word this page prints
Heavy
community weight
3.01 of 5
votes behind it
244 weight votes
community rating
7.12 of 10
ratings behind it
3,987 ratings
rank on BGG — the boardgame subtype
#1,359
players
1–4
best with
3 players
how that best-with count was read
BGG's own poll summary
recommended counts — read out of BGG's poll-summary sentence
2–4
language dependence — the level BGG's poll names, ties read upward
3 of 5 — Moderate in-game text - needs crib sheet or paste ups
votes in that poll
18 votes
minimum age — the figure BGG reports, which a printed box can disagree with
14+
play time — the min and max BGG reports
120–240 min
play time — the headline figure BGG reports
240 min
year published
2012
captured
Aug 24, 2026
source
BoardGameGeek XML API

sharpsignal gateway up checked 2s ago

Review queue →