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Junior Pharao

Slide pyramids, find animals

The young pharaoh loves playing hide & seek with his animals. You can find them by sliding colorful pyramids and memorizing paths to various animals. Discovery of a mummy earns you an extra reward.18 cards depicting various animals or mummies are stacked face down. The game board with a turntable underneath is filled with pyramids, sand squares are left empty. The current top card of the stack is revealed. As the active player you slide one pyramid into the empty square. If you reveal an empty square, you may move another pyramid. If you find another animal, your turn ends and passes to the next player. If you find the animal on the card, you take the card. Wrong animals or empty squares that are revealed should be memorized for paths to animals.  

Special rules apply for a Mummy search card: The turntable is spun until a mummy symbol appears; this makes the mummy under the board change places. All now search for the mummy. If you find it, you take the search card plus a pharaoh card for your reward. When all search cards have been won, you win the game with most cards.

In the expert version you use the replacement board and shuffle the sandstorm cards into the search cards. If you reveal a sandstorm card, you turn the board by 90°, by one corner, in clockwise direction. Then you discard the card and reveal a new card. All other rules are the same as in the basis variant.

Mummies are ancient, the game mechanism of Pharaoh is not that old, but an evergreen among game mechanisms that has been used in many variants – here for the very well-made junior version including a mummy special – nice memo practice providing lots of fun!

Players: 2-4

Age: 5+

Time: 20+

Designer: Gunter Baars

Artist: Michael Menzel

Price: ca. 26 Euro

Publisher: Ravensburger 2019

Web:  www.ravensburger.de

Genre: Memo, sliding, searching

Users: For children

Version: de

Rules: de fr

In-game text: no

Comments:

Proven game mechanism

Very nicely varied

Good memory training

Also, a good family game

Compares to:

Der zerstreute Pharao and all variants

Other editions:

Ravensburger (fr)

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 3

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0