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The Ark of the Covenant
The Ark of the Covenant
Interestingly enough, three meeples can form a Star of David with their legs!
I love drawing the tiles from a bag, so I made this appropriately-themed one for the game.
Magnetic Travel Ark of the Covenant
We have our top meeples working on it...
"IT IS BEAUTIFUL!!!"
4-player game 4 turns in

The Ark of the Covenant (2003)

Players
2–5
Best: 2, 3, 4
Playing time
30–30 min
Age
8+
6.96
Average rating
1,624
Ratings
1.93/5
Weight
#2779
BGG rank
Top 5,000
Alternate names:Die Baumeister des Königs
Designer:Klaus-Jürgen Wrede, Ursula Stephan
Artist:Alvin Madden
Publisher:Hans im Glück +5 more
Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).
Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 7, Luck 5, Interaction 7, Complexity 3.9, Theme 5
Strategy7.0
Luck5.0
Interaction7.0
Complexity3.9
Theme5.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

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Overview

A game based on Carcassonne, Ark of the Covenant has players vie for control of cities, roads, flocks, and temples by using the tiles to create the dynamic play area and by placing followers on the tiles.

New features compared to Carcassonne include oases along roads which award 1 additional point to that road for each oasis, a one-time use "prophet" for each player which doubles the value of a completed city for that player, a simplified field scoring with each sheep in the field adding 2 points and each wolf subtracting 2 points, and a new scoring mechanism for temples. Additionally, players can forgo the placement of a follower on the board to move the Ark around the tiles and award 1 point to the owner of each follower it passes.

Players alternate adding tiles to the board to build cities and roads and score followers. The game ends when the last land tile is played. The player with the most points wins.

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