Join Catalyst Game Labs to learn to play Merchants. Created by world-famous game designer Reiner Knizia, Merchants captures the flavor of tall-ship tradingi n the 16th-17th centuries as the Americas are colonized and the goods of a continent are up for grabs. A classic with German-style resource management style of play, with rules that are read and understood in minutes, but a depth of play that allows for a lot of fun repeat gaming.