Euphrat & Tigris: Die Zikkurat

About this expansion

Euphrat & Tigris: Die Zikkurat is an expansion and variant for Tigris & Euphrates for 2–4 players, with an approximately 90-minute play time.

This addition introduces the ziggurat, a special monument shaped like a cross and spread across five spaces of the board. A player can build it by forming a cross of five civilization tokens in the same color, then discarding those tokens and replacing them with the ziggurat markers.

• The ziggurat occupies five board spaces, with a tower placed on its middle tile.
• Its five markers cannot be destroyed.
• All Tigris & Euphrates rules concerning monuments also apply to the ziggurat.
• If your king is inside the ziggurat’s kingdom, you receive one victory point in a color of your choice at the end of your turn.

The tower is not included with this extension. Instead, the rules specify using any other meeple from any other game for the tower placed on the central tile.

Euphrat & Tigris: Die Zikkurat first appeared in the June 2009 issue of Spielbox magazine. Starting with Mayfair Games’ 2008 edition of Tigris & Euphrates, the ziggurat was included in the base game together with a double-sided game board.