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1990 Ranked #21,355

Treasures And Trapdoors

A luck-driven race game has players collect three jewels and an ankh, seize the Golden Cobra, and escape the pyramid first. A turntable controls movement and trapdoors, which can drop pieces into the snake pit and force a restart.

Children's Adventure Ancient Pick-up and Deliver Race

Players

2-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

6+

Complexity

1.2/5

Rating

5.65

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

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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CONTENTS Pyramid frame, pedestal, golden cobra, 16 jewels (4 are spares), 4 baskets in 4 colors, 4 ankhs, circular turntable OBJECT OF THE GAME To collect 3 jewels and an ankh, seize the Golden Cobra and be the first to escape with it to the stairs leading from the pyramid to the outside world. A simple luck driven children's game based on the Egyptian pyramids.

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CONTENTS Pyramid frame, pedestal, golden cobra, 16 jewels (4 are spares), 4 baskets in 4 colors, 4 ankhs, circular turntable OBJECT OF THE GAME To collect 3 jewels and an ankh, seize the Golden Cobra and be the first to escape with it to the stairs leading from the pyramid to the outside world. A simple luck driven children's game based on the Egyptian pyramids. What is very unique in this game, is the turntable device. It operates as a dice, dictating the moves of the players, and at the same time it opens and closes the traps, causing some pieces to fall into the snake pit and start again. Additionally when the turntable moves some windows will show the Pharaohs eyes in one of these 3 positions: OPEN = trapdoor is open HALF CLOSED = the trapdoor might open next turn CLOSED = the trapdoor will not open next turn

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Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
2
Play time
30 min
Age
6+
Complexity
1.2/5
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Designers

1
Mary Danby

Publishers

1
Waddingtons

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