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Amun-re: 20th Anniversary Edition

This Egyptian strategy game has royal families acquire provinces, farm, trade, and build pyramids. Auctions and offerings make every expansion depend on the favor of the gods.

Strategy Games Ancient Economic Area Majority / Influence Auction/Bidding

Players

2-5

Play time

Not listed

Age

12+

Complexity

3.11/5

Rating

7.54

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

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Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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Everyone knows of the pyramids on the Nile — eternal monuments of a powerful and beautiful culture that can still take our breath away.

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Everyone knows of the pyramids on the Nile — eternal monuments of a powerful and beautiful culture that can still take our breath away. The players (leaders of a royal Egyptian family) choose their sites, build their pyramids, and thank Amun-Re and the other gods for their bounty. In Amun-Re, each pharaoh wants to build the most pyramids. To accomplish this, they must first acquire a province where they can trade and farm. With their profits, they can buy new provinces and building stones to erect pyramids. For all their actions, players must make clever use of their power cards and always offer appropriate sacrifices to Amun-Re. Amun-Re: 20th Anniversary Edition features new modules that can be added to the game: Officials Variant: The Officials variant can only be played with two or three players. It gives players an additional Scribe for bidding. Each round players will bid for two provinces, keeping control of just one and gaining the Officials card from the other. The Officials cards offer exciting instant bonuses. Afterlife Expansion: The Afterlife expansion adds a fourth item you can buy in the market phase - Tomb tiles. Players place the tiles into their own personal pyramid shape, starting with a base of up to five tiles. Each placed tile gives the player a bonus, and this bonus is multiplied if the tile is placed on top of matching tiles within the pyramid. At the end of the game, each completed row of tiles is worth points. Statues Expansion: In each of the first three rounds, grand statues are added to certain provinces. These statues each grant unique powers to the player who controls the province in which they are built. This expansion adds extra interest to the auction phase and gives players their own player powers that may vary each time. The statues will be miniatures representing Egyptian gods. Pharaoh Mini Expansion: This mini expansion adds tension to the auction phase by rewarding players for overbidding other players. The Pharaoh moves to each province that is overbid, and at the conclusion of the auctions the player who wins the province with the Pharaoh receives a token that grants extra rewards in the subsequent offerings phase.

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Play and group

Players
2–5
Best with
3–5
Play time
90 min
Age
12+
Complexity
3.1/5
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Designers

1
Reiner Knizia

Artists

1
Vincent Dutrait

Publishers

1
Alley Cat Games

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