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2002 Ranked #12,716

Cairo

Dexterity building game has players flick blocks and dice from a Nile ship onto construction sites, then use collected pieces to build pyramids. Majorities at sites and restricted finger choices make every flick strategically consequential.

Family Games Action / Dexterity Dice Dice Rolling Mechanism: Finger Flicking Games

Players

2-5

Play time

Not listed

Age

8+

Complexity

1.26/5

Rating

5.86

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.6/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Game about building pyramids. Your ship sails up and down the Nile, while you flick blocks, big blocks, and dice off the top of the ship hoping to get them to land at building sites.

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Game about building pyramids. Your ship sails up and down the Nile, while you flick blocks, big blocks, and dice off the top of the ship hoping to get them to land at building sites. Then you can use blocks collected at the sites to build pyramids for more points, and the majority of blocks on a site gets the most points. Also, a die chooses which finger you have to use to flick the blocks. Kind of a golf/billiards/El Grande hybrid.

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Play and group

Players
2–5
Best with
3–5
Play time
30 min
Age
8+
Complexity
1.3/5
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Credits

Designers

1
Günter Burkhardt

Artists

1
Björn Pertoft

Publishers

1
Schmidt Spiele

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