Thebes

Thebes

The game I want to introduce this time is Thebes. Players are archeologists that travel around Europe and Egypt's historical sites to explore ancient culture and artifacts, but before they do, they have to collect enough knowledge. The more "intelligence" they are, the more and faster can they excavate treasure artifacts. And sometimes, when there are exhibitions where you can have your artifacts in display.

The game is special with is that player don't take actions in the same "time." There is a time track on the game board which has 52 spaces that means 52 weeks of a year. Every action takes different time, so players may be in different week. The one that is the furthest back always act first.

The other special thing are the time wheels, which are not seen often. It shows how long and how many artifacts you can excavate depend on how much knowledge you have collected.

There aren't many action in a turn, so the game's is fast. It is also exciting when you excavates. You draw artifact tokens out from cloth bags, but the tokens are not all artifacts, dirt are blended in, so it is common that you draw five tokens and there are only one artifact. And then drawn dirt are put back in the bag. Therefore, the earlier you make an excavation, there are more chance to dig out treasures.

At the end, the player with the most valuable artifacts, the most knowledge, and the most exhibitions wins.