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Faiyum

By: Rio Grande Games

Type: Boxed Game

Product Line: Board Games - Ancient (Rio Grande Games)

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MSRP old price: $59.95


Product Info

Title
Faiyum
Publisher
Category
Author
Friedemann Friese
Publish Year
2021
Dimensions
10.75x14.5x2.25"
NKG Part #
2147949893
MFG. Part #
RGG608
Type
Boxed Game
Age Range
14 Years and Up
# Players
1 - 5 Players
Game Length
45 - 90 Minutes

Description

Faiyum is another terrific game from Friedemann Friese, designer of Power Grid and Friday.

During the reign of Amenemhet III, you are the pharaoh’s advisors, commanded to harvest goods, build roads, found settlements, and do much more for the good of Faiyum! You are being supplied with the necessary manpower, resources, and money, which means that if another advisor needs to use “your” roads, farms, and other buildings, they may do so since everything you build is owned by the pharaoh. The only thing you will own is the only thing that matters: the respect of the pharaoh.

Faiyum is a strategic game for enthusiasts of planning games. The basic rules are simple: Play your cards one by one on your personal discard stack. After playing some or all of your cards, you take them back into your hand in “reverse” playing order, so playing cards in the best order is important. Newly purchased cards go directly into your hand, so the timing of getting and playing them is important, too. Each of the individual cards has easy-to-understand actions, but only by creating the best combined “engine” will you be a master advisor of Faiyum.

This game features a card mechanism reminiscent of deck builders and the market mechanism successfully used in Power Grid. Gain more and more valuable cards, and use the structures built on the game board to your advantage — in other words, for your reputation. In the end, the most cunning advisor who creates the best card combinations will win Faiyum.