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Marajoara

Game ID: GID0201572
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2024
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Description

The Marajoaras is one of the names given to the people of the original Brazilian tribe that dates back to the pre-Columbian period, who settled on the island of Marajó and at the mouth of the Amazon River.

The Marajó culture has been known in archaeological studies due to its distinctive pottery.

In Marajoara, players will act as some of these scholars who excavate and restore this majestic art, managing a museum and its collection of Marajoara vases.

Over the course of 14 turns, carry out excavations, restore a large vase, display found vases, earning victory points for your collection. At the end of the game, whoever has the most victory points wins.

—description from the publisher

Description

The Marajoaras is one of the names given to the people of the original Brazilian tribe that dates back to the pre-Columbian period, who settled on the island of Marajó and at the mouth of the Amazon River.

The Marajó culture has been known in archaeological studies due to its distinctive pottery.

In Marajoara, players will act as some of these scholars who excavate and restore this majestic art, managing a museum and its collection of Marajoara vases.

Over the course of 14 turns, carry out excavations, restore a large vase, display found vases, earning victory points for your collection. At the end of the game, whoever has the most victory points wins.

—description from the publisher

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Pros
  • Beautiful dice and art style
  • Box doubles as an interesting player board
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Thematic elements
  • Artifact gathering and display
  • Archaeological dice collection and vase restoration
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Dice grid harvesting — A grid where dice are harvested to gain points.
  • Dice Movement — Dice pips are used for movement and actions.
  • Excavations and vase restoration — Turn-based excavations restore vases for VP.
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  • This is my sensory candy for spiel.
  • it's basically an area majority game, it sounds like, based off of this, just really, really pretty board.
  • This is a re-implementation of Qin.
  • I love a good tile layer and the tile layer, you're building out this city and these canals, and you can sail your boats around it.
  • Turns, catch three demon tokens using a polyomino.
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