Come Play: Tigris and Euphrates!

Tigris & Euphrates is a seminal tile-placement and strategy game set in the ancient fertile crescent, often hailed as the masterpiece of designer Reiner Knizia. Players guide rival dynasties to establish and expand their kingdoms across Mesopotamia.

The game is unique for its scoring mechanism: you must balance progress in four different spheres—Settlements (Black), Trade (Blue), Farming (Green), and Religion (Red)—because your final score is only the lowest score among these four categories.

You place tiles to build up these four aspects, create powerful leaders, and connect them to monuments. However, conflict is inevitable. Whenever two different kingdoms attempt to link up, a "Revolt" (leader-less conflict) or "War" (leader-led conflict) erupts, with the winners absorbing the tiles and power of the losers. The constant tension between internal growth and external conflict is the core of the game.

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✅ You will enjoy this if:

• You love games with a "Knizia-style" scoring twist (scoring your minimum category) that forces you to constantly address your weakest link.
• You enjoy games with pure strategy and near-zero luck, where every decision about tile placement and conflict resolution is critical.
• You appreciate a game where control is often fleeting and a powerful kingdom can be broken apart by a well-timed invasion.
• You like classic, high-tension abstracts that are easy to learn but offer immense depth and replayability.

We currently have two copies of the game, but please, if you have a copy, and you'd like to come, let us know, and we'll add a third game.

And folks, if you're new to the hobby, or even if you haven't yet dipped your toes in the water, this game is a must play classic, with very simple rules. We hope you'll join us!