Maya (2012)

About this game

Game description from the publisher: Long ago, in the ancient city of the Mayan empire, nine temples were built with different stone blocks, but the blocks were all mixed up! Luckily, great priests held the knowledge of powerful magic, and they can rebuild the towers without damaging them. Now they compete to create nine single-colored towers by exchanging the massive blocks of stone between them. If one of them can join the colored stones together, he will earn the right to decorate the tower with his own ladder. And if he can build an entire tower in a single color he will earn a special reward: His followers alone will forever greet the sun from the top of the tower! In Maya, as one of these mighty priests, can you outwit your opponents and rerrange the stones of the nine towers?

Does it fit your group?

• Group size. Works with 2 to 4.
• Rules load. At 1.7/5 this is a light game — explain it in a few minutes, good for a table that has not played much.
• Age. The publisher suggests 8 and up. That rates the rules rather than the artwork, so judge the box yourself for younger players.