# Myrmes

Myrmes is a board game for 2–4 players. It plays in 60–120 minutes and is meant for ages 13 and up. Ludoya players call it best with 4. It is rated 7.2 out of 10 by 23 Ludoya reviewers.

- **Players:** 2–4 (best with 4)
- **Playing time:** 60–120 minutes
- **Minimum age:** 13+
- **Complexity:** 3.5 out of 5
- **Year published:** 2012
- **Categories:** Animals, Farming, Environmental
- **Mechanics:** Grid Coverage, Hexagon Grid, Grid Movement, Network and Route Building, Worker Placement
- **Ludoya rating:** 7.2 out of 10, from 23 reviews
- **Owned by:** 24 Ludoya players
- **Plays logged on Ludoya:** 52
- **Unique players:** 64

**Designers:** Yoann Levet

**Artists:** Arnaud Demaegd

**Publishers:** Ystari Games

## Expansions

- [Myrmes: Colony Tiles](https://www.ludoya.com/games/myrmes-colony-tiles)

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## Rules questions

### Can I move onto a prey space if I don't have the soldiers to hunt it, or if I don't want to hunt it?

No — if a worker would enter a space with a Prey token it must immediately be hunted, so you may not enter that space unless you have and intend to spend the required soldiers; hunted soldiers are discarded to your reserve and you take the Prey token and its rewards (page 5).

### Do workers that leave the colony ever come back so I can reuse them the same turn?

No — a worker sent outside is discarded as soon as it places a tile or at the end of its movement if it places nothing and will not return to the colony that turn; only workers that worked inside the colony are recovered during the End of Turn phase (pages 4, 6).

### How does the VP+1 event work — when do I get the extra victory point?

If you choose the VP+1 event, each time you score victory points during that season (for example by placing a pheromone, feeding the queen, or completing an objective) you immediately score 1 extra victory point (page 4).

### What are the placement rules and effects for pheromones (size, where they can go, scoring)?

One hex of the pheromone must cover the worker's space, it cannot overlap tiles/tokens or water or extend beyond the garden, and available pheromone sizes depend on your colony level; pheromones score immediately if size >2 and you place resource cubes on them according to the terrain they cover (page 5).

### For the connected-pheromone objectives, do special tiles or tunnels count as part of the connection?

No — only pheromone tiles count; to validate the 4+ or 7+ pheromone objective you must have that many connected pheromones (special tiles and tunnels do not count) and you immediately empty those pheromones of their cubes (page 7).

## Links

- [This page](https://www.ludoya.com/games/myrmes)
- [Myrmes in the Ludoya app](https://app.ludoya.com/g/myrmes)
- [BoardGameGeek entry](https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/126792)

_Data from Ludoya, updated 2026-09-19. Ratings, ownership and play counts are Ludoya's own._