In the game itself, it's about the sea route to India to discover and collect along the way victory points, because the player who discovered India is not automatically the winner.
Must be operated in order to come to India multifaceted resource management. Basically, one has of all too few. So you decide whether to buy goods or sells, his ships moved, buildings building, technology development etc.
The colored cubes serve to indicate the resources used and are then sometimes ships, sometimes building etc.
What makes the game very interesting, is not only the sophisticated mechanics and the relatively good season of 30-45 minutes which we loved but also the small packaging, the little stuff and the good accessibility.
Many games splurge today with great facilities, also to India comes out with the minimum without being cheap, it has a very reasonable price and is very suitable for the holiday.