by etherton
The rules don't seem to address this specifically... in the Standard game, you're supposed to shuffle the three market tiles before putting it down. Do you allow anybody to look at their order after this point?As soon as the first sale happens, the exact order will be common knowledge due to a process of elimination, but not being allowed to look at all introduces an annoying hidden trackable information element.
The rules explicitly say you're allowed to look at the goods tiles and racial techs (particularly since somebody may have dumped off a nonstandard one on a previous turn) but it's not clear if the market tiles are included in that.
If I was teaching the game, I'd let people look at the market order at any time, even when the culture was first discovered, so I won't have to remember which cultures have already been sold to yet or not.
Thanks,
-Dave