Ramses
BGG rank
BGG #23,432
BGG rating
6.3

Ramses

1988

Rules assistance for Ramses

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

  • 2 players
  • 30 min
  • 12+
  • Complexity 3.0/5

Rules assistant for Ramses

For 2 players

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

Ramses is a board game released in 1988 for 2 players, 30 minutes per game, and ages 12 and up. It was designed by Horst Alexander Renz and its main mechanics are Area Movement and Square Grid.

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About the game

Each of the two players is trying to maneuver his four pieces onto specially marked squares or to box his adversary in (if he cannot move any piece, he's lost). On your turn you move first one of your own pieces, then one of your adversary's. The pieces move orthogonally (as long as they don't go twice through the same square during a move) by as many squares as there are pieces in its starting column and row (using the larger number, counting itself). The game has Chess-like qualities since there is no randomness at all, and each player has perfect information.

Publishers

  • Pharao-Brettspiele

Questions and answers

Ramses supports 2 players according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.