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1999, Spiel Des Jahres ceremony award. Tikal got not only the nomination, but also the very coveted award. And for a good reason!
25 years later, you can still discover it in its latest design and graphic upgrades.
 
But what is it?
Tikal is a game of exploration within the Central American jungles in search of lost temples and the treasures within. Players send their team of explorers into the jungle, exposing more and more of the terrain. Along the way, you find temples that require further discovery and offer more treasure. Players attempt to score points for occupying temples and holding onto treasure.
 
Tikal has survived longer than most the members of my gaming group, probably because it combines a bit of "take that" and "euro player interaction" in a delightful way.

There is a lot of strategy involved in how you signal to other players whether or not you will fight to score points at a temple vs bluffing disinterest so that other players will improve the temple and you can swoop in.

This game has held up very well over twenty years, and we hope everybody will enjoy it for the next twenty to come.

Playable from 2 to 4 players in close to an hour in real-time mode, you can learn the rules in a few minutes with the help of the amazing included tutorial by Nekonyancer, or simply by clicking the link below:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=tikal
 
Let's celebrate the amazing work done by Sir Heo to develop this game for our platform, all with the combined help from the publisher Super Meeple as well as the game designers: Michael Kiesling and Wolfgang Kramer.

That's it for this Wednesday Release Time!
Let us know if you enjoyed the latest releases as much as we do.
More surprises will come, but until then...
Take care and play fair!
 

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Stupid, sexy Indiflanders Jones

Flanders jajajaja

Looking forward to trying it. Thanks!

Can't believe you got the rights to this!! Amazing. My personal favorite ... of all time.
Thanks a lot!

twistoffate1 wrote: ↑09 October 2024, 14:17 Stupid, sexy Indiflanders Jones

I am fn DED

This was a go-to game for my wife and I with another couple twenty years ago (sadly, one of our friends later took his life). Have not played it much since, but for a time there we were so into it that I bought and played the other two games in the "trilogy" too, Mexica and Java (Java being the most intriguing to me, but maybe a bit too mathematical for that original couple, and I ended up playing it more with another group)

Really looking forward to getting back into this, and, as usual, finding out how unsophisticated my old in-the-cardboard casual tactics were/are, vs the sharks on BGA

twistoffate1 wrote: ↑09 October 2024, 14:17 Stupid, sexy Indiflanders Jones

What is that flanders thing about? Easteregg? Could someone give me a hint!? Thx

herrfuchs wrote: ↑10 October 2024, 17:47

twistoffate1 wrote: ↑09 October 2024, 14:17 Stupid, sexy Indiflanders Jones

What is that flanders thing about? Easteregg? Could someone give me a hint!? Thx

The guy on the box looks like Indiana Jones with the face of Ned Flanders from the Simpsons. But the face has been additionally revised on BGA and the motif is from the Revised Edition of Tikal.
"Welcome to the Jungle Gym" is a song sung by Flanders in "Bart Has Two Mommies". It is a parody of "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns N' Roses. Ned sings this song when he is covering his backyard with foam for safety of his sons, Rod and Todd, and is singing about making his yard safer.