Cuzco EN

Players: 2 - 4
Ages: 14+
Time: 90 min

Cuzco is a new 2018 edition of Java from French publisher Super Meeple that moves the action to South America, which is in line with the other titles in the Mask Trilogy as well as the authors' original plans for the design.

CUZCO is the third installment in the trilogy of masks by famous authors M. Kiesling and W. Kramer. This is the new edition of JAVA, which was published in 2000 between TIKAL and MEXICA.

'Cuzco' replaces the name of 'Java'. Indeed, during its first edition, the name changed and the place had moved to Indonesia in the island of Java. It seemed logical to us to give the game its initial name desired by the authors and replace it again among the other peoples of ancient South America!

Embodying Inca dignitaries, you and your clan will come to the CUZCO plateau in Peru to build the city, erect temples and make offerings to the gods in order to gain prestige and become Emperor of the Inca people!

Cuzco is a strategic game that combines the placement of tiles and characters. To gain prestige points, players will have to create villages using these tiles, place their clan members there to be in the majority and build, then expand temples.

One of the originalities of CUZCO lies in its majority principle. It will not be necessary to have the most characters to be in the majority, but to have the most senior character in a village. This principle forces players to stack terrain tiles to position themselves as high as possible.

Once the tiles are placed, the movement of the characters and their position on the field will be of the utmost importance in trying to maintain this majority until the end of the game for the grand final scoring.