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Designed By	Régis Bonnessée
Art By	David Cochard Johann Aumaitre
Published By	(Web published) Marektoy Tilsit
Year Published	2002
# of Players:	3 − 4
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 4 players Recommended with 4 players (24 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	60 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	8 and up
User Suggested Ages	10 and up (2 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (6 voters) [poll]
Category	Economic Medieval Political
Mechanic	Pick-up and Deliver Set Collection Simultaneous Action Selection
Primary Name	Himalaya
Alternate Names	Marchands d'Empire Merchants of the Empire
Expanded By	Show Expansions » Himalaya - The 5-6 Player Expansion
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	Description Edit \| History

This game was freely available for download once; however, as a commercial version has been published, the author has removed the material from the web. The commercial version was produced by Tilsit in 2004 and published with the name Himalaya. It was the 4th game in the Tilsit Collection series.

The game seems inspired by various classics: Elfenland for the movement rules, Tigris & Euphrates for the multiple influence scores and the victory conditions, El Grande/San Marco for the regional influences, RoboRally for the simultaneous turn "programming", etc.

Expanded by:

Himalaya - The 5-6 Player Expansion

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Awards

2005 Spiel des Jahres Nominee.
2002 Tric Trac de Bronze Winner.
2003 Concours International de Créateurs de Jeux de Société Winner.

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New	€27.50	14-Jun-2009
New	€35.00	26-May-2009
New	€35.00	3-May-2009
New	€120.00	22-Mar-2009
Like New	$70.00	22-Mar-2009
New	€45.00	19-Mar-2009
New	€70.00	23-Feb-2009
Like New	$90.00	5-Sep-2008

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1	Rules Is it possible to withhold actions when fulfilling an order?	2009-06-12	Teppolainen	7
4	General Himalaya and Expansion for auction (only $125 with 2 days left)	2009-05-14	Tatsu	3
18	Reviews Why I like - Himalaya	2009-05-06	thoia	9
1	General Print and Play?	2008-12-22	msherwoo	8
1	Rules Unclear winning conditions 3 player game	2008-11-11	Blind Rea...	7
0	Rules Who is in second place?	2008-10-05	korfun	4
1	Rules Advanced inventory with basic rules?	2008-03-27	KSensei	1
0	General Himalaya now OOP?	2008-01-19	Emile	4
0	General Folding the player screens...	2007-12-28	gashlycrumb	4
0	Variants Anybody like the optional Event Tokens?	2007-11-02	commandwolf	2

	Recommendations

Standard Recommendations
Augsburg 1520

Weak Recommendations
Guatemala Café	Timbuktu	Hermagor	Kreta
Metropolys	Key Harvest	Rum & Pirates	Auf Achse
Um Reifenbreite	Mykerinos	Amyitis	Mesopotamia
Ys	Utopia	Walhalla	Leonardo da Vinci
Ming Dynastie	Kaivai	Key Largo	In Teufels Küche
Salamanca	Yspahan	Oltre Mare	Notre Dame
Skåål	Lost Valley

Very Weak Recommendations
Sushi Express	Kings Progress	Santiago	Medina
Louis XIV	Maharaja: Palace Building in India	Reef Encounter	Taj Mahal
San Marco	Keythedral

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Himalaya Rules Chinese

Chinese version of rule (color edition)

kekukeku

2008-06-09

Himalaya SK

Slovak rules

dilli

2008-01-06

himalaya_aid.pdf

Building descriptions, setup, and victory conditions by number of players (up to 6)

shippert

2007-06-26

Himalaya(KOR).pdf

Himalaya(KOR)

dadmi77

2007-03-25

Himalaya - Goods Progression.pdf

Simple goods progression chart for players who sometimes have trouble remembering - v1.0

Eddy Bee

2006-12-03

TurnSummaryFront.pdf

Detailed player aid including scoring and victory conditions. Best on photo printer. Front side.

slowcorner

2006-01-15

TurnSUmmaryBack.pdf

Flip side of TurnSummaryFront player aid showing delineation of regions

slowcorner

2006-01-14

Reglas Himalaya.doc

Reglas en español (spanish rules)

jcorral

2005-12-14

MerchantsOfEmpire_Kor.pdf

Merchants of Empire Korean Rules

sosynoid

2005-11-20

Himalaya Rules English.pdf

Himalaya English rules translation

GeoMan

2005-01-18

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1409	The Definitive List of Board Game Videos and Interactive Tutorials	2007-08-12
735	Plays best with 2? 3? 4? 173? You tell me! Ultimate Optimum # of Players List (BGG Top 288)	2007-02-09
397	"You Never Told Me That Rule!" -- Rules You Most Certainly Told Them.	2006-05-16
357	Theme changed by the publisher	2006-09-07
264	2006 Edition of: Look what my Secret Santa sent me...	2006-12-15
182	It's time for another game ... How well do you know your game rules? Go on, have a go. You know you want to.	2008-11-19
181	Language levels of the top 250 (or can I buy this cheap foreign edition?!)	2007-09-13
160	For Someone Who Doesn't Believe In God, I Sure Do Build a Lot of Churches	2007-02-28
136	Hey, that sounds cool! Or, mechanics that make you want to try a game	2007-04-24
132	Neglected Euros	2006-11-08

	Statistics

User Rank:	240
Num Ratings:	1013
Average Rating:	7.13
Standard Deviation:	1.24
Num Views:	62518
GeekBuddy Analysis:	Analyze
Similarly Rated:	View
Avg. Game Weight:	2.5
Fans:	8

Personal Comments:	396
Users Owning:	899
Users Wanting:	212
Users Trading:	11
Has Parts For Trade:	0
Want Parts In Trade:	1
Price History:	View
Total Plays:	1606
Plays This Month:	4

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Himalaya - The 5-6 Player Expansion

Rank	N/A
Num Ratings	111
Average Rating	7.57
Average Weight	2.12

Owned	245
Prev. Owned	7
For Trade	4
Wanted in Trade	37

Wishlist	49
Comments	52
Year Pub.	2006

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Hexagames' Marchands d'empire pages (in French)	http://www.hexagames.com/telecharger_marchands.htm	2003-08-22
The french review on Tric Trac	http://www.orleans.tv/index.php3?id=jeux&rub=detai...	2002-08-07
French review and Variants on Jeux2Rody.com	http://www.jeux2rody.com/jeux/marchandsdempire.htm...	2003-09-29
Westpark Gamers review (in German)	http://www.westpark-gamers.de/Reviews/bericht78_1....	2003-11-17
Bruno Faidutti's ideal game library	http://www.faidutti.com/index.php?Module=ludothequ...	2004-11-14
Le site perso de Ludo le gars (français)	http://lgimet.free.fr/Himalaya.htm	2004-11-30
Jeux de NIM: rules, pictures & review [FRENCH]	http://www.jeuxdenim.be/fiche_Himalaya.htm	2005-03-05
Hall 9000	http://www.hall9000.de/cgi-bin/linkman/linkman.pl?...	2005-05-12
Nice English review on Dutch website.	http://www.gamepack.nl	2005-06-01
Bruno Faidutti - My 2005 games of the year	http://www.faidutti.com/index.php?Module=divers&id...	2005-07-07

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