Santorini Riddle of the Sphinx (Requires Santorini to Play)

Players 1-2 or 4 (Best with 1)

Playing Time  20 Mins

Age 10 +

Complexity 2.5/5

Type  Fun for Couples

Santorini: The Riddle of the Sphinx is a co-operative expansion for Santorini that adapts the competitive experience into an ongoing adventure that players navigate together.

In this expansion comprised of a series of scenarios called "riddles", players will seek to complete tactical objectives to solve the riddles. However, if players exhaust their supply of Santorini tower pieces before an objective is completed, the riddle remains unsolved and must be played again.

Each successfully solved riddle allows players to progress on the adventure map and unlock new gods to add into future riddles.

Can you complete the full adventure and solve the riddle of the Sphinx?

Santorini is a re-imagining of the purely abstract 2004 edition. Since its original inception over 30 years ago, Santorini has been continually developed, enhanced and refined by designer Gordon Hamilton.

Santorini is an accessible strategy game, simple enough for an elementary school classroom while aiming to provide gameplay depth and content for hardcore gamers to explore, The rules are simple. Each turn consists of 2 steps:

1. Move - move one of your builders into a neighboring space. You may move your Builder Pawn on the same level, step-up one level, or step down any number of levels.

2. Build - Then construct a building level adjacent to the builder you moved. When building on top of the third level, place a dome instead, removing that space from play.

Winning the game - If either of your builders reaches the third level, you win.

Variable player powers - Santorini features variable player powers layered over an otherwise abstract game, with 40 thematic god and hero powers that fundamentally change the way the game is played.

AWARDS & HONORS
2018 SXSW Tabletop Game of the Year Nominee
2018 Spiel des Jahres Recommended
2018 Origins Awards Best Board Game Nominee
2017 International Gamers Award - General Strategy: Two-players Nominee

 

- $49.11