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Heir to the Pharaoh
45m - 60m
2 - 2 Players
Ages 10+
This mechanic requires you to place a bid, usually monetary, on items in an auction of goods in order to enhance your position in the game. These goods allow players future actions or improve a position. The auction consists of taking turns placing bids on a given item until one winner is established, allowing the winner to take control of the item being bid on. Usually there is a game rule that helps drop the price of the items being bid on if no players are interested in the item at its current price.
Auction/Bidding
Hand management games are games with cards in them that reward players for playing the cards in certain sequences or groups. The optimal sequence/grouping may vary, depending on board position, cards held and cards played by opponents. Managing your hand means gaining the most value out of available cards under given circumstances. Cards often have multiple uses in the game, further obfuscating an "optimal" sequence.
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The primary goal of a set collection mechanic is to encourage a player to collect a set of items.
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Tile Placement games feature placing a piece to score VPs, with the amount often based on adjacent pieces or pieces in the same group/cluster, and keying off non-spatial properties like color, "feature completion", cluster size etc.
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Variable Player Powers is a mechanic that grants different abilities and/or paths to victory to the players.
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Jacovis
Heir to the pharaoh takes bidding/auction gaming to a sweet spot for two players. You have to be careful about what to bid and when because your opponent could get a stronger hand next turn if you bid too high on this one! The decisions you make because of the auctions make for a great strategy game that takes place on the board, while Magic cards can help you try to swing the favor of the gods your direction. I love that I can play this game with my eleven year old or my gaming friends, and it is an amazingly fun experience in any situation, I highly recommend this game if you like auction games and have room for a two player game with a great theme and a great strategic challenge!
Andy Parsons
A point salad in which the favours of six gods get you those points. Each round, the gods' favours are auctioned in random order. The players start with identical decks of bidding cards, but pass their spent cards to their opponent, so those decks quickly become asymmetrical. That passing mechanism provides a powerful incentive to buy things as cheaply as possible. The game plays over eight rounds in which you are bidding for those same six gods. The changing values of the things they offer to one or both players mean that each round is not a straight repetition of the last. All the same, this game outstays its welcome, lacking that spark to keep me engaged. Beyond that, I wasn't fond of the animal magic cards that frequently bend the rules of auctions (low card wins, reveal opponent's bid and change yours, that sort of thing). There is enough uncertainty in the auctions without adding a dose of chaos. Production quality of my retail edition is good. I do like Eagle's lidded storage trays. While the cat and dog illustrations are cute, the deep orange, yellow and blue of nearly everything was hard on these eyes. The rules are poorly written; as others have commented, you will need to walk through a round or two before they click.
Jacqland
The length of time it takes to wrap your head around the rules and actually play it isn't really worth it in terms of complexity/depth the game has to offer (ie - not much). I'm glad I didn't shell out for the more expensive components.