Ancient Egypt · Conflict · Power building
Blood and Sand · Book of the Dead
Build divine power. Choose your battles.
Follow two complete games across the temples of Egypt. Learn the base game with four players, then discover how Book of the Dead changes the struggle with Honor, sacrifices and the Underworld.
4-player base · 3-player expansion · Guided, at your pace
The complete interactive tutorial, in your browser.
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Use A− / A+ to change the size of text and controls. Open Text panel to adjust Width and Height, or choose Reset to restore the defaults. Your preferences are remembered for each game.
Use Next to advance one consequence at a time, Previous to revisit a position, and the timeline to explore the game. Drag to pan, right-drag to orbit, and scroll to zoom. Cards and glossary terms can be opened for a closer look. Choose Blood and Sand or Book of the Dead from the opening menu.
These are guided playthroughs with authored moves and outcomes. Use the checkpoints to explore how the game develops.
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Reach at least nine Fame with no opponent ahead at the start of your Day turn. Timing matters: temporary temple and level-four pyramid points can change hands, while battle and divine tokens persist. Crossing the threshold during an action is not the same as passing the winning check.
During Day, players alternate placing action tokens to pray, recruit, build, acquire powers and move armies. Five coloured tokens per player must respect the player-board equilibrium requirement. Battles combine units, powers, battle cards and possible Divine Intervention; Night resolves income and refresh effects.
The library separates a four-player Blood and Sand game from a three-player Book of the Dead game. The expansion introduces Honor, Emerald powers and the Underworld. Follow each route’s winning start-of-turn check rather than treating the end of Day as a generic points tally.
Inside this tutorial
Follow the setup, power purchases, movement, battles and Night phases through the winning start-of-turn check.
Explore Emerald powers, Honor, the Underworld and divine creatures in a separate complete expansion game.
The tutorial’s source audit checked the publisher’s base and expansion rules and corrected power references on 8 September 2026. Rule citations and contextual strategy notes are included at the table.
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