Yokohama Roll & Write

About this board game

Yokohama Roll & Write is a business-focused game for 1–6 players that plays in 45 minutes, placing each player in the role of a merchant competing for success and recognition in Yokohama.

The game board is divided into different blocks, including a city block where employees are allocated and a port block where contracts from foreign countries must be fulfilled. Players must deploy their employees skillfully across the city to perform area actions and develop their businesses.

Area actions allow merchants to earn trade goods while completing other tasks. These goods can then be loaded in the port block to fulfil contracts, creating a direct connection between activity in the city and opportunities offered through international trade.

• Allocate employees throughout the city block.
• Perform area actions to earn trade goods and complete tasks.
• Load trade goods to fulfil contracts from foreign countries.
• Learn and use technologies made available through the opening of the port.

Foreign countries also provide access to various technologies as the port opens. Efficiently using these technologies can offer a shortcut to victory, adding another consideration to the challenge of managing employees, goods, contracts, and business development.

Success in Yokohama Roll & Write comes from making effective decisions across the city and port. Which merchant will combine careful deployment, productive area actions, completed contracts, and useful technologies to become the number one merchant in Yokohama?