Castle Made of Sand (砂上のROW閣) (2018)

Pharaoh is in trouble... His beautiful kingdom was attacked by a massive flood! The city that had thrived for hundreds of years was washed away except for the Great Pyramid, the symbol of his kingdom... Pharaoh shouted to his people from the top of the Great Pyramid, "Now, we shall split the Great Pyramid to rebuild the city!" Castle made of Sand is a first board game with using real sand. First, players create a big pyramid with dedicated mold and sand. On the way you create pyramid, you can fill in gem token(*) to the pyramid. (*The token will be your point when game finish.) After create pyramid, you remove the pyramid from the mold. Then, you attach construction pick the pyramid's middle of the slope, and pharaoh meeple on the top. Each player split sand from the pyramid with dedicated spatula(**) in order. So you can create 4 type of construction with dedicated mold, and you put on your board the construction. (**If you get gem token in the sand, the token will be your point. And if you fell down construction pick from pyramid, previous turn player get the pick.) If you can create the construction with perfectly, so you get 1 point(***). But you can't create with not perfectly (not enough sand compared to the mold), you lose 1 point. (*** you have construction pick the same shape with the sand construction, you can attach the pick on the sand. So you get more 2 point.) In the following situations, game will finish. - any player who knocks down down pharaoh meeple on the pyramid's top, the player's point will change "0". - any player reaches the needed number of victory points. (2 players : 30 point, 3 players : 25 point, 4 players : 20 point) Then, the player who has the most points, is the winner. 『砂上のROW閣』は本物の砂をリソースに使用した屋内で棒倒しをする日本初のボードゲームです！！始めに、全ての砂で獲得すると得点となる宝石トークンを埋めた大ピラミッドを作り、建物ピックを刺し頂上にファラオミープルを置いて準備完了！ 各プレイヤーは順番に大ピラミッドから砂を切り出して、個人ボードに4種類の建物を建てていきます。 途中で建物ピックを倒してしまうと、前の手番のプレイヤーが獲得！対応した建物に刺す事で得点アップ！！ 頂上のファラオミープルを落とさないように、多くの建物を建てて勝利を目指しましょう！！ 切り出した砂を、可能な限り使い切りながらコントロールしつつ建物を建てていく感覚は他のボードゲームでは味わえない新体験！ 砂のマネージマントが鍵となるゲームです！