Scholars of the South Tigris

Baghdad, around the year 830. The city buzzes with scholars, books and ideas. In Scholars of the South Tigris you dive into this golden age of knowledge, where the caliph calls on the sharpest minds to gather scientific writings from all over the known world. Your task? Build influence in the House of Wisdom and hire the best translators to turn foreign parchments into Arabic. The game blends all kinds of mechanisms into something all its own. You build up a bag full of dice, place them on the board, mix colours and use your workers to soften setbacks. Every turn is about choices that really matter, because you slowly decide which direction your story takes. You share the parchments and translators with the other players, which brings tension to the table. Who gets to the right manuscript first? With six different research tracks and a big stack of parchments and translators, no two games are ever the same. Prefer to play alone? The solo mode is easy to learn and has four difficulty levels, so you can keep challenging yourself. Scholars of the South Tigris is a standalone part of the South Tigris trilogy and offers hours of fun for anyone who loves a good brain burner.