Pharao

Descripción

This is the third in the Pharao-Brettspiele series of games, the other two being Isis and Ramses. The board is an Ancient Egyptian Senet board, and the game can be played as such if one supplies the throwing sticks (randomizing devices that eventually evolved into dice; available in commercial Senet sets or easily home-made). Note, however, that there are only 4 pieces per player instead of the almost-standard 5 (historically, the number of pieces per player varied between 5 and 10), so a fifth piece would ideally need to be supplied. H. A. Renz chose, once more, to use the components for an entirely different, modern abstract strategy game. Each player uses two special dice to move both h…