Cairo
BGG rank
BGG #13,905
BGG rating
5.9

Cairo

2002

Rules assistance for Cairo

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 2–5 players
  • 30 min
  • 8+
  • Complexity 1.3/5

Rules assistant for Cairo

What would you like to know?

Answers come from the official rulebook, with the page to check.

Cairo is a board game released in 2002 for 2–5 players, 30 minutes per game, and ages 8 and up. It was designed by Günter Burkhardt and its main mechanics are Dice Rolling.

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About the game

Game about building pyramids. Your ship sails up and down the Nile, while you flick blocks, big blocks, and dice off the top of the ship hoping to get them to land at building sites. Then you can use blocks collected at the sites to build pyramids for more points, and the majority of blocks on a site gets the most points. Also, a die chooses which finger you have to use to flick the blocks. Kind of a golf/billiards/El Grande hybrid.

Mechanics

Publishers

  • Schmidt Spiele

Questions and answers

Cairo supports 2–5 players according to the catalogue. This range comes from the publisher’s listed player count, so the game can be set up for any group size within it. Some setups, rules and scoring details may still vary by player count, so check your edition’s rulebook for the exact configuration.