Penny Papers Adventures: The Temple of Apikhabou

About this board game

Penny Papers Adventures: The Temple of Apikhabou is a simultaneous strategy game for 1–99 players, playable in about 20 minutes. Each player explores the temple by writing numbers into a personal grid, seeking treasures and secret passages while avoiding wandering mummies.

Every player uses the same result from three dice, creating a shared challenge with plenty of room for different decisions. The goal is to manage the available space wisely and build a grid that earns more victory points than your opponents.

• Use one shared result of three dice.
• Write numbers into your grid to explore the temple.
• Look for treasures and secret passages.
• Respond to dangers, including wandering mummies.
• Play simultaneously with any number of players.

The heart of the game is deciding how to use each result most effectively. A number may help you explore more thoroughly, improve your scoring opportunities, or shape the spaces still available in your grid. Careful planning and flexible space management are essential as the adventure unfolds.

Dangers can also affect the competition. When they appear, they offer opportunities to mess up your opponents’ grids, adding an interactive edge to the puzzle of making the most victory points. You must balance your own exploration with the chance to hinder rival adventurers.

With its quick play time and simultaneous turns, The Temple of Apikhabou supports both solo play and large groups without making everyone wait. In this 2018 entry in the Penny Papers Adventures series, every shared dice result becomes a fresh test of planning, risk management, and spatial decision-making.