Istanbul: Letters & Seals

About this expansion

Istanbul: Letters & Seals is an expansion for Istanbul for 2–5 players, with games lasting about 60 minutes.

As merchants in Istanbul, you have discovered a lucrative way to earn extra money: delivering messages to the shopkeepers of the bazaar. These deliveries offer more than a source of income, however. While moving through the bazaar, you may catch useful information that can be sold to a secret society in exchange for rubies.

The expansion also introduces a companion to support your regular business. This helper is slower than you might prefer, but brings an important advantage: he does not require any assistants. Managing your business means making use of this support while pursuing opportunities connected to messages, information, and the secret society.

• Deliver messages to the bazaar’s shopkeepers.
• Gather useful information during your activities.
• Sell that information to a secret society for rubies.
• Work with a companion who needs no assistants.

Istanbul: Letters & Seals adds this new layer of opportunity to the Istanbul setting, connecting everyday merchant work with secret information and valuable rewards. The result is a marketplace role in which your regular business and your message-delivery activities exist side by side.

Released in 2016, this expansion is made for groups of 2–5 players and keeps the focus on the merchants, shopkeepers, and secret dealings of Istanbul.