This is the re-themed version of Muscat and is a race to deliver your message to the Czar before everybody else. This is done by moving couriers from village to village towards the Czar's palace. However, you can only move out of a village once the building in which you are staying has three occupants and only two of them get to move, leaving one behind. Once you reach the palace, you then have to get past the guards by accumulating enough gold with which to bribe them.

This was interesting enough in terms of planning your placement of couriers to get to the palace efficiently, but it seemed a bit too dry and analytical, which can cause downtime in our group. Nige, Mark K and I fairly quickly got our messages to the outskirts of the Czar's palace but Mark G was pegged back a bit with not much chance of advancing further until one of the rest of us got to the palace. Nige made one placement error which handed me a quick path to the palace and I then took my time - two turns- to accumulate sufficient gold to bypass the guards and deliver my message. Not bad but not interesting enough to get played very regularly.