Mercurius
- Board Game
- Rebel Centrum. In the game Mercurius, players take on the roles of powerful, wealthy Dutch burghers in the seventeenth century, whose goal is to multiply their wealth by speculating on the Amsterdam stock market. Players can invest money in shares of chambers of the Dutch East India Company & trade commodities imported by the company from distant lands. Using information about events affecting the financial condition of the chambers & the commodity prices & availability, players will try to influence the prices of their own benefit. They have to be careful because their knowledge can influence on the markets is incomplete. Players must observe their opponents. moves & the information they reveal to the market. Only through effective use of their own knowledge & responses to market events will they earn a fortune & a reputation as the best investors in the world. s first stock exchange. For ages 10.