2004 · Dice

Tuchulcha

Players represent Etruscan temples whose priests undertake a purification ritual along a spiral path toward the central altar. Each turn, dice determine how one or more of eight priests move, while mystical stones increase their spiritual strength and passages can banish pieces to the forest. Players may land on opposing priests with sufficient strength to remove them from the path. In three- and four-player games, one player may sacrifice priests to become Tuchulcha, gaining stronger movement and the goal of eliminating all rivals. In a four-player game, another player may instead become Lasa Vecuvia and attempt to seal four passages. Otherwise, the winner is the player with the most priests at the altar when the game ends.

groupPlayers

2–4 best 4

schedulePlaying time

30 min

cakeAge

8+

psychologyComplexity

1.7 / 5