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Phara-Oh-Oh!

Scarabs for the burial chamber

The grave of Pharao Anopheles has been robbed and since then his mummy is perpetually roaming through the pyramid’s corridors and must be released. But to achieve this you must manage to reach the burial chamber with the scarabs that were stolen. The board is covered with face-down desert, pyramid and burial chamber tiles and the mummy trap is prepared from colored boulder pieces and the Pharao’ Staff. In your turn you must either reveal a new desert or pyramid tile or choose a tile already revealed and take a boulder of this color from the mummy trap. If you manage this without boulders or staff falling out of the mummy trap you may move your marker to the next case in the color of the piece. If you not manage it, you must move backwards. On a scarab case you receive a scarab and you can never own more than four at any time. When an adventurer or the mummy reaches a mummy case, the mummy moves as many cases as there are symbols on the case, until the mummy ends up on a case without mummy symbols. The mummy moves only within the pyramid and turns around, if necessary. When you end up on a case together with the mummy you must discard a scarab or move back. If you own two scarabs you may enter the burial chamber. If you manage to turn over both burial chamber tiles one after the other and pull out the corresponding boulders, you win the game. There are two variants, „Abenteuerliche Gerölllawine“and for younger players, ages 5+, a variant „Schnell in die Grabkammer“ without mummies and scarabs.

This is a pretty and well-working adventure in the pyramid, dexterity and a little bit of tactic in choosing possible colors are on demand.

Players: 2-6

Age: 7+

Time: 20+

Designer: Wolfgang Kramer, Jürgen P. K. Grunau, Hans Raggan

Artist: Eva Czerwenka

Price: ca. 30 Euro

Publisher: Haba 2015

Web: www.haba.de

Genre: Dexterity

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Topic and mechanism fit nicely together

Easy to play

Also good family game

Compares to:

Dexterity games featuring picking up items without accidents

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 3