The buyer who earns the most over three days, is the winner of Medici. Before the market opens Each buyer chooses a color and takes the ship mat and six counters in that color. Place the board in the middle of the table. Each stall has eight levels that are used to track purchases of the commodities by each buyer. These are tracked and accumulate through the three days of the game.
Buyers can earn extra money by being one of the top two buyers in a commodity.
To begin, the buyers place one of their counters on the bottom level of each stall. As the buyers buy merchandise throughout the game, their counters are moved up to track their purchases of each commodity. The money track surrounds the stalls and tracks each buyer s money throughout the game. The track is labeled 0 - 99. If a player s money exceeds 100, he continues moving his counter and remembers that he now has over 100 florins.