Ra Gameplay Overview
On your turn, you must do exactly ONE of three actions: Draw a Tile, Invoke Ra, or Use a God Tile. Play passes clockwise. If all your suns are face-down, you skip your turns for the rest of the epoch.
Actions
- 1. Draw a Tile — Draw one tile from the bag and place it on the next empty space of the auction track.
- 2. Invoke Ra (Voluntary Auction) — Call 'Ra!' to start a voluntary auction for the tiles currently on the auction track.
- 3. Use a God Tile — Spend one of your God tiles to take any single tile from the auction track.
- Involuntary Auction (Ra Tile Drawn) — When a Ra tile is drawn, an auction is triggered. It works the same as a voluntary auction with one key difference.
- Epoch End & Scoring — An epoch ends when the Ra track is full OR all players have used all their suns.
Key Concepts
- Sun Token Economy — When you win an auction, your bidding sun goes to the center face-up, and you take the old center sun face-down. Face-down suns can't be used until ne...
- Disaster Tiles — When you win disaster tiles in an auction, resolve them immediately: Funeral = discard 2 Pharaoh tiles. Drought = discard 2 Nile or Flood tiles. Unres...
- Tile Retention Between Epochs — KEPT: Pharaohs, Nile tiles, Monuments, God tiles. DISCARDED: Gold, Flood tiles, Civilizations. This makes monuments a long-term investment and civiliz...
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