DESCRIPTION & INSPIRATION

The Black Market Hustle is a trading game where players become underground dealers, collecting wealth through making fake sales, participating in auctions, and exposing frauds as they navigate through the game board, which mimics an underground black market. The market is unpredictable, filled with lotteries, taxes, and even robberies. Each dealer has unique special abilities, some can uncover others, swap wealth, make fake sales without penalty, or even be undercover cops. The ultimate goal of the players is to become the richest dealer in the market.

The game is inspired by Coup, as it builds upon the theme of deception and hidden identities, but with a stronger focus on dynamic market interactions and unpredictable events. Our interpretation of the underground black market theme is that it represents a world of corruption for wealth accumulation. The dealers are making deals, whether it is a real sale or a fake sale, to accumulate wealth; therefore, the core idea of deceptions is closely related to the theme.
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