Merchants Cove: The Oracle

About this expansion

Merchants Cove: The Oracle is a roll-and-write style board game for 1–5 players, with sessions lasting about 90 minutes. You play as Haggatha the Oracle, a merchant who deals in fortunes for the unfortunate and seeks to part visitors from their precious gold.

Weary adventurers come to your shop looking for hope and guidance. Offer them lucky charms and horoscopes, read the stars, divine the future, and sometimes turn to a little voodoo to give your customers what they seek.

Each turn, throw a handful of custom runes into a divided dish. The runes include a coin, bone, voodoo meeple, and dice. You then record the results on your board in different ways, performing actions while attempting to predict the future.

• A roll-and-write style game centered on recording rune results
• A pen and dry-erase board for tracking your actions
• A custom dice tray designed for throwing the runes
• Fortunes, lucky charms, horoscopes, and voodoo as tools of the trade

In Merchants Cove: The Oracle, fortune-telling is a business, and every prediction can help shape your shop’s success. Balance mystical services with the practical challenge of keeping customers interested: dark dabblings—or even dirty dishes—may scare away too many honest visitors.

With its distinctive components and rune-based turns, The Oracle offers a focused merchant experience built around chance, recording results, and forecasting what comes next.