The bustling Istanbul Bazaar is alive with merchants, valuable goods, clever deals plus the glitter of precious rubies. In Istanbul: Choose & Write, you’ll take on the role of a shrewd merchant competing to build the most successful trading empire through careful choices, clever timing and tactical use of your personal bazaar.
 
Your player sheet becomes your own bustling marketplace, where you’ll mark locations, gather goods, collect lira and then trade your resources for the rubies required to win. Each turn presents a crucial decision: play a Location card to activate an area of your bazaar or spend valuable resources on a Guild card for a powerful action that can give your strategy a major boost.
 
Familiar locations from the Istanbul board game series return, including the Large Market plus Gemstone Dealer but the choose-and-write format creates a fresh strategic puzzle every game. Plan your routes across the bazaar, maximise valuable spaces as well as watch the opportunities available to rival merchants then decide when to make your biggest moves.
 
With its combination of resource management, card play and personal map development,means Istanbul: Choose & Write offers an engaging strategy game that is easy to pick up yet full of meaningful decisions.