Jacob Marley Esquire PDF
This is the mostly-original version of Jacob Marley, Esquire from Cheapass Games, with PDF files for game board, cards, envelope, and rules.
As with all our print-and-play files, the price for this product is strictly optional. You may also download it for free using the first link below.
Jacob Marley, Esquire was one of the original Cheapass Games, #039.
Release Year: 2004
Game Type: Board Game
Designer: James Ernest
Players: 4 to 6
Playing Time: 90 Minutes
Components to Print: Board, Cards, Rules
You Also Need: One Pawn for Jacob Marley, ten counters for each player, six more counters, one 6-sided die, money, and a way to keep score
Long before Scrooge and Marley became the best of friends, young Jacob Marley ran an efficient little money lending firm in the heart of Dickensian London. This game is, quite seriously, the second best banking game you will ever play.
A concept poster for Jacob Marley, Esquire had hung in the Cheapass offices since the days of Kill Doctor Lucky, in a period when Cheapass was doing more with, let’s say, “popular” intellectual properties, and less with its own.
It took several years to develop this game, but Jacob Marley, Esquire turned out fairly well. We say “second best” because in 2017, James Ernest revised the core game and produced a streamlined variation, Young Jacob Marley, which keeps the core mechanics and strips away the dead weight. You should definitely check that one out, too; it’s now available from Crab Fragment Labs.
Links:
As mentioned above, this core mechanic is re-implemented in Young Jacob Marley, from Crab Fragment Labs.
Thanks for supporting Crab Fragment Labs, and please check out more great products at Greater Than Games!