1.2 / 5
2–2 players
30 min
BGG 6.3(5.7)
Rank #6702
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The game has been published under different names but it is a simple race game very much like Backgammon. This edition has a board that is a reproduction of the original found in the Mesopotamian city of Ur. Each player brings their 7 pieces in to play and takes them off of their outer track. Opposing pieces come into conflict on the inner track that they must travel on to the exit. If you land on a space occupied by a single opponent's piece you send it back to the start. If you land on a space occupied by 2 or more opponent's pieces then your piece goes back to the start.
The four dice give a marked or blank result. They are tetrahedral (four-sided) dice.
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