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Mesopotamia: Cradle of Civilization

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2005 · 2-4 players · 45min · weight 2.45 · 1,629 ratings

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ID
19301
Name
Mesopotamia: Cradle of Civilization
Year
2005
Rank
1996
Min players
2
Max players
4
Playing time
45
Min playtime
45
Max playtime
45
Avg weight
2.4478
Num weights
201
Bayes avg
5.88945
Average
6.47435
Users rated
1629
Num owned
2454
Wanting
69
Wishing
266
Num comments
610
Fetched at
Sat Apr 25 2026 16:17:52 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (4)
Action PointsModular BoardPick-up and DeliverPoint to Point Movement
Categories (2)
AncientCivilization
Description (1018 chars)

At the center is the Ziggurat, where you must bring 4 sacrifice tokens to win. But to deliver them, you must have sufficient Mana reserved by praying in temples, which players build. You bring your sacrifices from 4 huts that you build, and you can breed at an empty hut to increase your people. To build huts, temples, and Mana, you use rocks and timber that you collect from quarries and forests. Each turn, you can move 5 places, placing new tiles if you go off the map, seeding stones or timber if they are quarries or forests, and carrying resource to empty plains if you want to build. Building a hut or temple, breeding, or drawing an action card ends your turn, and you bank Mana if you have people on temples. So gradually, you build up your clan and have them do different things. Some stand at temples to pray, some explore and carry resource, others help build or breed. And when you deliver a sacrifice, you kill the messenger too, thus needing to breed more. Expanded By Mesopotamia: Expansion

LLM v2 (wide)

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LLM v3 (deep)

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