Taj Mahal Online

Reiner Knizia designed the popular Taj Mahal in 2000. It was published in Germany by Alea and in the United States by Rio Grande Games.

If you do not know this game, I strongly urge you to read the rules before proceeding. I provide the Taj Mahal english rules. Jay Tummelson of Rio Grande Games created the english rules and kindly allowed me to show them to you.

You can find the rules in other languages at the Alea website. I provide no additional rules for the online version because I think it is intuitive and needs no additional comment.

You may play Taj Mahal with humans or by yourself with 4 or 5 robot players. The robots are not as good as in Tycoon, but they should give most players a decent game.

Taj Mahal is a Java application. For download information, go back to the online page.

Some Taj Mahal online trivia

• I used six different card backs in the online game. I change the card back at the top of each hour, but they won't change during a game. Five of the six are rugs! The sixth is just a picture that I liked.
• In the four-player game, I show pictures of the Taj Mahal in the open space. You might not notice, but the picture changes every second turn, and time changes from Taj Mahal at sunrise to Taj Mahal at night as the game progresses.
• If you are interested in medieval Indian history, search the internet for "mughals" and not "moguls." I use the "mughal" spelling whenever I refer to them.

About the robot nuts ...
The robots in Taj Mahal all use the same code, so there is no personality differences as in Tycoon. Half will play an elephants game, and half will pursue connections. However, they will change their philosophy if they think it's appropriate. The nuts have perfect memories. If they see you draw a faceup card, they will not forget it, and they calculate odds on cards that they don't know. This means their predictions become more accurate just before a reshuffle. In general, they won't stay in if they think they will lose.

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