Tigris & Euphrates (1997)
Playtime: 120
Min. Age: 14
Players: 2 - 4
Publisher: Pegasus Spiele, Edge Entertainment, Giochi Uniti, Hobby Japan, 999 Games, Z-Man Games, CZ Cloud Soft Co. Ltd, Galápagos Jogos, Mayfair Games, Devir, Wargames Club Publishing, Hans im Glück, Smart Ltd, Fantasy Flight Games, Matagot, Lacerta, Top Licence Games, Heidelberger Spieleverlag
Designers: Reiner Knizia
Artists: Christine Conrad, Doris Matthäus, Bascu, Tom Thiel, Ricarda Thiel, Stephen Graham Walsh
Mechanics: Square Grid, Area Majority / Influence, Hidden Victory Points, Set Collection, Hand Management, Tile Placement, Connections, Take That, Income, Highest-Lowest Scoring
Min. Age: 14
Players: 2 - 4
Publisher: Pegasus Spiele, Edge Entertainment, Giochi Uniti, Hobby Japan, 999 Games, Z-Man Games, CZ Cloud Soft Co. Ltd, Galápagos Jogos, Mayfair Games, Devir, Wargames Club Publishing, Hans im Glück, Smart Ltd, Fantasy Flight Games, Matagot, Lacerta, Top Licence Games, Heidelberger Spieleverlag
Designers: Reiner Knizia
Artists: Christine Conrad, Doris Matthäus, Bascu, Tom Thiel, Ricarda Thiel, Stephen Graham Walsh
Mechanics: Square Grid, Area Majority / Influence, Hidden Victory Points, Set Collection, Hand Management, Tile Placement, Connections, Take That, Income, Highest-Lowest Scoring
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Regarded by many as Reiner Knizia's masterpiece, Tigris & Euphrates is set in the
ancient fertile crescent with players building civilizations through tile placement. Players are given four
different leaders: farming, trading, religion, and government. The leaders are used to collect victory
points in these same categories. However, your score at the end of the game is the number of points in your
weakest category, which encourages players not to get overly specialized. Conflict arises when civilizations
connect on the board, i.e., external conflicts, with only one leader of each type surviving such a conflict.
Leaders can also be replaced within a civilization through internal conflicts.
Starting in the Mayfair edition from 2008, Tigris & Euphrates included a double-sided game board and extra components for playing an advanced version of the game. This "ziggurat expansion", initially released as a separate item in Germany for those who already owned the base game, is a special monument that extends across five spaces of the board. The monument can be built if a player has a cross of five civilization tokens of the same color by discarding those five tokens and replacing them with the ziggurat markers, placing a ziggurat tower upon the middle tile. The five ziggurat markers cannot be destroyed. All rules regarding monuments apply to the ziggurat monument as well. If your king is inside the kingdom of the ziggurat, you will get one victory point in a color of your choice at the end of your turn.
Some versions of Tigris & Euphrates are listed as being for 2-4 players, while others incorrectly state that they're for 3-4 players. Tigris & Euphrates is part of what is sometimes called Reiner Knizia's tile-laying trilogy.
Starting in the Mayfair edition from 2008, Tigris & Euphrates included a double-sided game board and extra components for playing an advanced version of the game. This "ziggurat expansion", initially released as a separate item in Germany for those who already owned the base game, is a special monument that extends across five spaces of the board. The monument can be built if a player has a cross of five civilization tokens of the same color by discarding those five tokens and replacing them with the ziggurat markers, placing a ziggurat tower upon the middle tile. The five ziggurat markers cannot be destroyed. All rules regarding monuments apply to the ziggurat monument as well. If your king is inside the kingdom of the ziggurat, you will get one victory point in a color of your choice at the end of your turn.
Some versions of Tigris & Euphrates are listed as being for 2-4 players, while others incorrectly state that they're for 3-4 players. Tigris & Euphrates is part of what is sometimes called Reiner Knizia's tile-laying trilogy.
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The game was also published under these names:
Tigris & Euphrates ,
两河流域 ,
Eufraat & Tigris ,
Tigre et Euphrate ,
Eufrat & Tigris ,
Tigri & Eufrate ,
チグリス・ユーフラテス ,
Tigris y Éufrates ,
Euphrat & Tigris ,
Tigris & Euphrates with Ziggurat Expansion ,
티그리스 & 유프라테스 ,
Eufraat en Tigris ,
Тигр и Евфрат ,
Eufrat i Tygrys
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