A New Twist on Tile Games
There are three different action types you can tap as part of your strategy: Rotate, Swap, Replace
The Rotate Icon allows you to choose a tile in play (already placed) and rotate it in place any direction to change how it lines up with the tiles around it.


There are a few limitations: You cannot use the action icons to move or manipulate the Mummy Tomb, Base Camps, or any tile with an Archeologist or Mummy on it at the time the action tile is laid.
Placing the mummy of YOUR color on another player’s dig site section pulls the scoring for that entire section to you. If another player’s color mummy is in one of your sections at the end of the game, they earn the points for that section that otherwise would have gone to you!
In the above image, the green area surrounded by the yellow line illustrates a scoring section that would steal points from the green archeologist and give them to the blue archeologist because the blue mummy is occupying that section.
Mummies also block movement. Archeologists cannot move through a space occupied by a mummy. Any same color dig site that is directly connected to the site the mummy occupies is considered cursed and inaccessible. In our example above, the entire green section surrounded by the yellow line is considered impassable. Note: tiles connected via airports, rivers, or mountains are not considered cursed and can be moved through.
Mummies and Archeologists affect which tiles can be manipulated via action icons. Any tile that is occupied by either a mummy or archeologist cannot be rotated, swapped, or replaced. This applies to only the specific tile the mummy or archeologist is on, not an entire section connected to that tile.
Let’s recap the many reasons you should put This Belongs in a Museum in your game table rotation:
- Unique board every time you play
- Multiple scoring options
- Fun, nostalgic theme
- Varying strategic depths depending on how seriously you play
- Constant push-pull for dominance between players keeps everyone engaged
- Mummies!!
Oh, and did we mention you can get all this for $24.99?
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