Mondo Sapiens

About this board game

Mondo Sapiens is a tile-laying puzzle game for 1–4 players, with games lasting around 30 minutes. Players simultaneously place tiles on individual world boards, working to populate them with people, buildings, and roads.

The central challenge is to build your world quickly while ensuring that everything is placed correctly. Speed matters: the faster you finish, the more points you can score, provided your world has been assembled accurately.

Mondo Sapiens offers three difficulty levels, making it possible for inexperienced and advanced players to compete at roughly the same level. These options provide a way to adjust the challenge while keeping the game’s simultaneous tile placement at its heart.

• Tile-laying puzzle gameplay
• Simultaneous play for all players
• Individual world boards to populate
• People, buildings, and roads to place
• Three levels of difficulty
• For 1–4 players, with a 30-minute play time

Players who enjoy the style of Michael Schacht’s Mondo may find Mondo Sapiens familiar, as it follows a similar tile-laying puzzle approach while focusing on the development of individual worlds.

A turn-based online version is available at www.boardgames-online.net. The game was also featured in the Im Rampenlicht Nürnberg 2012 recommendations.