Designer	Anthony J. Gallela Eric Goldberg Kevin Maroney Zev Shlasinger
Artist	Peter Gifford Dan Harding
Publisher	Z-Man Games
Year Published	2009
# of Players	1 − 6
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 3 players Recommended with 2, 3, 4 players (112 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	120 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	12 and up
User Suggested Ages	12 and up (38 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	Extensive use of text - massive conversion needed to be playable (86 voters) [poll]
Honors	2009 Golden Geek Best Board Game Artwork/Presentation Nominee 2009 Golden Geek Best Family Board Game Nominee 2009 Golden Geek Best Innovative Board Game Nominee 2010 Golden Geek Best Board Game Artwork/Presentation Nominee 2010 Golden Geek Best Thematic Board Game Nominee Show More »
Subdomain	Thematic Games (71 voters) [vote]
Category	Adventure Arabian Fantasy
Mechanic	Dice Rolling Storytelling Variable Player Powers
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Primary Name	Tales of the Arabian Nights
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In Tales of the Arabian Nights, you are the hero or heroine in a story of adventure and wonder just like those told by Scheherazade to her spellbound sultan! You will travel the land seeking your own destiny and fortune. You will learn stories and gain wisdom to share with others. Will you be the first to fulfill your destiny? The next Tale is yours to tell! There is, of course, a winner in Tales of the Arabian Nights, but the point of the game is less to see who wins and more to enjoy the unfolding and telling of a great story!

In this new edition of the groundbreaking storytelling game, you enter the lands of the Arabian Nights alongside Sindbad, Ali Baba, and the other legendary heroes of the tales. Travel the world encountering imprisoned princesses, powerful 'efreets, evil viziers, and such marvels as the Magnetic Mountain and the fabled Elephant's Graveyard.

Choose your actions carefully and the skills you possess will reward you: become beloved, wealthy, mighty - even become sultan of a great land. Choose foolishly, however, and become a beggar, or be cursed with a beast's form or become insane from terror! YOU will bring to life the stories of the inestimable Book of Tales in this vastly replayable board game with over 2002 tales that will challenge, amuse, astound and spellbind you for years to come.

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NOTE: Yes, you are supposed to get 2 decks of Status cards and the Quest cards are wrapped with the Treasure cards.

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Contents:

112 Status cards
19 Quest cards
30 Treasure cards
55 Encounter cards
60 Destiny counters
60 Story counters
60 Skill markers
18 Quest markers
6 Player markers (reversible for gender)
3 Time of Day tokens
6 sets of tokens, each comprising one of
- Wealth
- Origin
- Destiny
- Destination
- Story
One game board with a map of exotic locations
One rulebook
One Book of Tales
One booklet of Reaction Matrices
6 player reference cards
2 6-sided dice
One 6-sided Destiny Die
6 Character standups (with stands)

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Tales of the Arabian Nights

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Z-Man First Edition

Publisher: Z-Man Games

Artist: Dan Harding

Year: 2009

Product Code: ZMG 7031

Size: Long Rectangle (e.g. Power Grid)

7.80 pounds

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0	General How much players? Language depending?	2012-05-14	Deviser	3
33	Reviews Tales of the Arabian Nights: A Review	2012-05-13	xcrun55	8
3	News Reprint?	2012-04-20	JrStrange	13
0	Rules Minor questions	2012-04-05	exqcme	8
2	General Just got mine on ebay!	2012-03-26	brokenfang	13
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8	Sessions March 2012 - Session Report - A dad and 3 of his kids	2012-03-08	richcharters	1
9	Sessions Jan 2012 - Session Report....a dad and 3 of his kids	2012-02-06	richcharters	2
7	General Re-released?	2012-01-21	coco123	10
5	General Should I get this game next?....	2012-01-10	Thoth Amon	16

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11	BGG Figyelő (HU) Amikor az arab világ találkozik a hidegháborúval… by Imre Hauszknecht	6
7	A Game Built for Two Tales of the Arabian Nights by Kristen McCarty	2
3	A Game Built for Two Game Mechanic: Story-telling Games by Kristen McCarty	1
6	The Royal Society of Gamers Podcast Episode 5 by Karl Bunyan	2
12	Doctor Who: Solitaire Story Game - Designer Blog Theme vs Mechanics - A Good Game Goes to War by simon cogan	3
5	DSA spellenblog Tales of the Arabian Nights, of het verhaal van de zieke slang-slaaf en het meisje waarvoor het lot een buiging maakte by Richard Rutten	0

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Status cards summary in Chinese

状态卡牌表，所有状态按原英文字母排序，方便查找。玩天方夜谭的时候，身上挂3，4种状态不是稀罕事，而状态卡上又是那么多e文看的头痛，于是就整理了下，一共三页。

Antinua

2012-02-03

Chinese Rulebook pdf - Tales of the Arabian Nights

已经在BGC上发过了。非常欢乐的游戏。

Antinua

2012-01-31

Masters of Fate variant

This is an updated version of the file with some minor corrections and with nicer looking cards (well, they are not really nice, but at least they look like cards now).

magnitt

2011-09-25

Reaction Matrices for Tales of the Arabian Nights

While doing android app (about which you can read here: http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/684772/android-app-for-matrix-search-is-ready) for matrix search, I entered the entire encounter matrix to xls. I noticed it was requested in some forum, so I just saved them to pdf and post it here. Can be printed on 4 pages. The content is also copiable, so you can put the numbers into another format if you wish to do so.

bodaster

2011-08-08

Android app for Tales of Arabian Nights encounter and matrix search

I love the game, but found very tedious to browse through always encounter tables and matrixes, so I created an android app, which does the following - Inputs encounter table number and selected encounter table line, and based on that prints out what the player encountered. - From there, you can go to the matrix and select reaction, which will lead to the final matrix number. In order to do this, I entered the entire reaction matrix to comp (that was a real pain to do:) - App provides option to roll the line for encounter (pluses can be entered from 0-8), and also option for rolling the destiny die - Matrix view can be entered without having any encounters, as there are some cards which tells you to go directly to some encounter matrix. In this case you can select also the adjective...

bodaster

2011-08-08

Skills Organizer & Map Legend

I made this player-aid to help speed up the organization of the Skills Tiles. I threw in the Legend from the back of the Rules Book that explains the color code of the map locations. It is a strip about 16"x 2", which I mounted on two pieces of adhesive-backed floor tile connected by a tape hinge. This zip file has two PDFs. 2pc prints the image in two parts on a single 8.5x11" page. 1pc prints one continuous image, if you are able to print on 11x17" paper. I compiled it using various game artwork from pictures here on BGG--thanks to the original posters for saving me breaking out the camera.

revtiedye

2010-09-08

Files to play the Merchants Expansion from the original TotAN with the Z-man version.

After playing a few games it was easier to use grid co-ordinates from the Merchant Board to cross-reference which goods were in which city; so here is the file with that instead. When you enter a city you can look up the goods on the merchant chart via coordinates. This made it easier for me at least!

plpompey

2010-09-04

Treasure cards pasteups in Russian

Наклейки для карт сокровищ на русском.

olegunza

2010-07-31

concise reference sheet by hecose

Reference sheet useful for quick referencing and provides a structured summary for teaching the game. See the At the Gates of Loyang game entry if you are interested in ref sheets for other games that I’ve made. If you do not have Microsoft Powerpoint, a PDF version is also available there.

hecose

2010-05-14

Status Cards in Russian

Карты статусов на русском

olegunza

2010-03-28

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Board Game Bureau - Tales of the Arabian Nights review	http://www.boardgamebureau.com/Reviews/Tales%20of%...	2011-10-12
Dutch Review on DorkSide	http://www.dorkside.nl/2011/09/tales-of-the-arabia...	2011-09-05
Romanian review on boardgames-blog.ro	http://www.boardgames-blog.ro/board-games/tales-of...	2011-05-02
Review at Game Pudding	http://boardgames.gamepudding.com/r/tales-of-the-a...	2011-03-21
Review of Tales of the Arabian Nights on Growing Up Gamers	http://growingupgamers.blogspot.com/2010/12/tales-...	2011-01-12
Todo sobre el juego en español.	http://fritoxjugar.netau.net/tales.htm	2010-07-24
Webapp for Encounter Lookup	http://people.uwec.edu/hlascs/bgg/totan/index.html	2010-06-21
English Review on Spotlight on Games	http://spotlightongames.com/list/nights/t.html#tal...	2010-05-14
Official Storytelling Variant (doc)	http://www.zmangames.com/boardgames/files/arabian_...	2010-04-07
Official Solo Variant (doc)	http://www.zmangames.com/boardgames/files/arabian_...	2010-04-07