The object of Merchants of Infinity is to earn as much money (platinum) as you can across multiple rounds. You’re going to earn that platinum by selling goods and completing contracts/objectives on Ship Order and Vortex cards. Ship Orders are acquire-and-deliver, and Vortex cards represent opportunities you’ve found by hanging out at the Black Hole, a watering hole for the galaxy’s most rich and desperate. Fundamentally, you must remember this - you keep nothing but your cash from round to round. Any goods you acquire in a turn must be either delivered or sold at the end of that turn, so planning becomes paramount.

Getting to the Game

The board representing the space station Mandlebrot will go, as so many boards before it, in the center of the table. Depending on player count, give each person some number of giant acrylic meeples in their chosen color and ten platinum. Shuffle the deck of COGS cards and deal out 5 to each player. Players then choose their preference of a combination of three Ship Orders or Vortex cards, however they’d like.

If this is your first game, you have no idea what these mean or do, so pick randomly - it’s not important. Place the remaining decks of those cards near the bottom of the board, and then shuffle and put…

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