We have the pleasure to present you today with Targi, a game by Andreas Steiger published by Kosmos.

It is a also a special event for us because Targi is the 50th game published on Board Game Arena! That's quite a milestone, and it is the occasion to extend our thanks again to authors, illustrators, publishers, developers, translators and everyone in the community who helped us make it this far! Cheers everyone!

So what is Targi about? As a player, you will be a Tuareg clan leader, managing the trade for goods and gold, and trying to make your tribe expand and prosper. The game takes place in the unforgiving desert where resources are scarce, and where the wind can change the landscape overnight: your board will be delimited by special "border" cards forming a 5x5 grid, and the inner desert inside will be filled by goods and tribe cards. Those will change over the course of the game after you used them, one type of card being always replaced by the other.

To get goods and to expand your Tribe, you will need to place your Targi over the "border" cards (and only over "border" cards). But the trick is, you will have some Targi on lines and some Targi on columns, and you will also get an action from the cards at the meeting point of these lines and columns. So you'll need to evaluate what you will gain from the various border card actions, and simultaneously what you can get from the card at the intersection of your Targi placements. This mechanism, combined with the Tribe card effects that you'll get when placing them in your collection, gives the game a thinking depth and replayability usually associated with much bigger boxes. In fact, it can make it quite the brain burner for players always on the lookout for the best move! You have been warned: the desert experience is unlike any other.

This game is part of the renowned Kosmos 2-player-series, that also comprises Kahuna and Dragonheart, also available to be enjoyed on BGA. A big thanks to Kosmos for these great games!

A good chunk of the development work on Targi has been done by Pierre-Cédric Thomart (PC23) using BGA Studio. A big thank you to him too!