About this game

The market bell rings and the bazaar comes alive. Each round a new merchant throws open their stall with six words for sale, and behind every word sits a hidden treasure. A gold piece, a diamond, maybe the Genie's Lamp itself. Buy your words, weave every one of them into a single perfect sentence, and watch the reveals stack up while the class holds its breath. But some days a thief is working the market!

How to play

1. 1Divide the class into teams and give each team a mini-whiteboard.
2. 2Every team starts the game with 1 gold.
3. 3Each round a merchant opens their stall with six words from the lesson, all priced at 1 gold.
4. 4Teams take turns buying one word per pass, and a team must read a word aloud to buy it.
5. 5Every purchase raises that word's price by 1 gold for the next team who wants it.
6. 6Teams continue until no team wants to buy or can afford to, and any team who starts the round with no gold takes one word free.
7. 7Every team then writes a single sentence containing every word they bought.
8. 8The teacher checks each teams sentence.
9. 9A correct sentence reveals the treasure behind each of that team's words, paying 1 gold for a gold piece, 3 for a diamond and 5 for the Genie's Lamp.
10. 10A wrong sentence loses every gold that team spent this round, and nothing behind their words is ever revealed.
11. 11On some days a thief is hiding behind one of the words, and every team who bought that word loses their winnings for the round.
12. 12At the end the richest team in the bazaar wins!