Designer’s Favorite (Jonathan Fryxelius)
This game made my jaw drop when I saw it. The central pieces of the game board are large cogs. Each turn you turn the central cog 1 step, which will affect all the other cogs as well. Apart from being a cool visual effect, you place your workers on these cogs and watch them progress to better stages. This magnificent design kept me and my family entertained for several years, and I was influenced by its way of using components in new ways. I would recommend this to almost anyone, it is a very good, well thought-out, beautiful, and well-produced game by Czech Games Edition.

The Maya was a highly developed civilization known for its unique art, complex architecture, sophisticated mathematics and advanced knowledge of the visible universe. At the heart of their society was the mysterious Tzolk’in – a 260-day calendar that used the movement of the planets to predict the right time to plant seeds, perform ceremonies, and build monuments.

Will you become one of the Ajaw, the leaders of Mayan tribes, worshipping the gods and leading your civilization to prosperity?

The center of the game is the Tzolk’in calendar – a set of gears that rotate through the rounds of the game. Your planning will need to account for a continually changing game board. Harvest crops, extract resources, build monuments, and beware the wrath of the gods.