Yaxha

Players draft colored stone blocks from shared market tiles, taking three blocks at a time from a bag and simultaneously selecting which market to claim each round. Turn order cards resolve ties and rotate among players as blocks are taken. Players place claimed blocks to build a stepped pyramid, obeying placement rules: all blocks must touch, the base is 4x4, and higher blocks can only be placed on completed 2x2 supports and must touch a block of the same color. Unplaceable blocks are discarded. After ten rounds, players score their largest visible contiguous group for each color and earn points for satisfied bonus objectives.

Players: 2–4 best 4
Playing time: 20 min
Age: 8+
Complexity: 1.3 / 5