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Imhotep Das Duell

Contest among Monarchs

Nefertiti and Akhenaten build monuments in this 2-player version of Imhotep and compete for fame points.

Six barges are laid out adjacent to the harbor board at six docking slots and are filled with three randomly drawn delivery tiles. Three such tiles form a face-down reserve. You command four pieces of your color and one double-sided board each for obelisk, temple, pyramid and burial chamber; A- and B sides of the boards have different levels of difficulty.

As active player, you have one action from three options: 1. Place a piece from your stock on an empty case on the harbor board. 2. Unload a barge – when there are minimum two pieces of any color in a row or column on the board, the corresponding barge can be emptied: The player owning the piece nearest to the harbor takes the tile on the barge that is furthest from the harbor, and so on, until a tile for each piece has been taken and added to the respective location board – one above the other at the obelisk, stacked face-down at the temple, placed according to color at the pyramid and to number at the burial chamber. Action tiles are displayed openly. An unclaimed tile on the barge goes out of play. The barge is refilled or taken out of play, if the stock is empty.  3. Use an action tile – place 2 or 3 pieces or place + unload or switch two tiles and unload.

If only one boat is left in the harbor, you win with most points from your location boards.

A very elegant version of Imhotep! A and B side offer varying options, with the B side being more interactive. Core element in any case is the decision about which row or column to unload when.

Players: 2

Age:12+

Time: 30+

Designer: Phil Walker-Harding

Artist: Claus Stephan, Michaela Kienle

Price: ca. 17 Euro

Publisher: Kosmos Verlag 2018

Web: www.kosmos.de

Genre: Placing, collecting

Users: With friends

Special: 2 players

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Simple mechanism

Plenty of tactical decisions and options

Very attractive and well-working addition to the range “For two players”

Compares to:

Imhotep

Other editions:

Currently none, White Goblin Games (nl) announced

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0