Customer Reviews

Mayfair Games Tigris and Euphrates - Double Scenario Edition

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This game was so much fun! My whole family likes to play board games, and this is our newest edition. We don't play games like Monopoly, we play things like wizard gizard, last night on earth, settlers, agricola, ect. Tigris and Euphrates is perfect for anyone, it's really easy to learn. I'm 12, so if there is a problem with the game it usually refers to the fact that it is a little to hard for me to play, but this game is really fun and i love it!

I want to start off by addressing the accessibility/learning curve of this excellent game. With all the discussion of it's complexity floating out there on the internet, I was worried that it might be too tough to learn (and teach to others). Turns out, THIS GAME IS NOT HARD TO UNDERSTAND OR LEARN! So rest assured that it will not languish on the shelf collecting dust before you get around to learning the rules.

This is a new edition, complete with a double sided board and new "advanced" scenario. But it also includes the simpler, original version of the game.

The components are of excellent quality and should stand up to the wear and tear of many sessions of play. There is certainly no quality issue in this box.

If you're a fan of board games and want something that will really hook you, this is a great game to buy.

This is a great board game, with fairly simple rules (they take about 10-15 minutes to explain to new players; among my favorite board games, probably only Carcassonne is simpler), interesting game mechanics, and often exciting gameplay. In many board games (e.g. Settlers of Catan) I find the random elements and hidden information annoy me, but in Tigris and Euphrates they really add a lot to the game.

Apparently Mayfair Games has been having some QA problems with this new edition of Tigris and Euphrates: there's a reference on their web site to some games being shipped without enough treasure cubes for the advanced scenario and mine came with several other pieces missing/not fitting together. Fortunately, their Customer Service by email was very courteous and they quickly mailed me replacement pieces.

I wouldn't recommend buying an earlier edition; just make sure to check that all the pieces are there as soon the game arrives instead of waiting until the first time you play like I did.

this game depends on some luck for picking the right pieces but it's mostly strategy that counts--good game for 2-3 people--

Wow, this is a challenging and involved game. I read about it in Jeffrey Deaver novel and thought it might be fun to try. This is not for little kids.

Purchased this as part of a games weekend, where my friends and I buy one new game per person, each year, and meet for a weekend of hours of board games and other parlour games. Tigris and Euphrates got played twice, so it's pretty cool.

T&E is one of those slightly older, certainly important-to-the-industry and Eurogaming culture titles that just isn't all that good. Nothing is actually broken or outright unfun here but the game requires way too many fiddly interactions and, frankly, too much luck (tile drawing)

At the end of the day, T&E doesn't provide anything that you can't get from a newer, better designed game with better art production