Inkan aarre is a 2005 Finnish

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 board game

Board game

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, designed by Kari Mannerla

Kari Mannerla

Kari Mannerla was a Finnish board and card game designer and advertising agency executive. The most famous game designed by Mannerla is the board game Afrikan tähti , the idea of which he began to develop in 1949. The game was published two years later...

 as a direct sequel to his 1951 board game Afrikan tähti

Afrikan tähti

Afrikan tähti or Afrikas stjärna , meaning "the star of Africa", is a Finnish board game designed by Kari Mannerla originally in 1951. It has been one of the most popular board games in both Finland and Sweden for decades. The game was first published in 1951, with a revision to the rules made in...

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Rules

Inkan aarre is mostly similar to Afrikan tähti. Players take turns to move around a board of interconnected cities, picking up tokens in search for the famous treasure of the Inca, a golden sun god statue.

The board represents the continent of South America

South America

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, and the currency used is the Mexican peso

Mexican peso

The peso is the currency of Mexico. Modern peso and dollar currencies have a common origin in the 15th–19th century Spanish dollar, most continuing to use its sign, "$". The Mexican peso is the 12th most traded currency in the world, the third most traded in the Americas, and by far the most...

. At the start of the game, all tokens are shuffled and placed face down in the cities on the board. All players start from Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...

, Brazil

Brazil

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 and receive 300 pesos as starting money. On each player's turn, he/she rolls the die and moves his/her counter. If the player reaches a city with a token, he/she can either pay 100 pesos or stay at the city, waiting until he/she rolls a 4, 5 or 6. The tokens in the game are:

• Blank: Nothing happens.
• Inca pot: The player gains 300 pesos.
• Silver necklace: The player gains 600 pesos.
• Golden chalice: The player gains 1000 pesos.
• Demon: The player loses all of his/her money.
• Native American guide: On the player's next turn, he/she can travel to any place on the board he/she wants.
• Treasure of the Inca: This is the famous treasure the players are searching for.
• Sun icon: Act as effective substitutes for the treasure of the Inca, once it has been found.

Travelling on the ground is free, but travelling by the sea costs 100 pesos for embarkation and 100 pesos for disembarkation. If a player has no money left, he/she can travel on the sea for free, but only 2 places per turn. Players can also use flight routes to fly immediately from one city to another. Flying costs 300 pesos.

Once the treasure of the Inca has been found, the first player to take either the treasure, or a sun icon, to Machu Picchu

Machu Picchu

Machu Picchu is a pre-Columbian 15th-century Inca site located above sea level. It is situated on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, which is northwest of Cusco and through which the Urubamba River flows. Most archaeologists believe that Machu Picchu was built as an estate for...

, Peru

Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

, wins the game.

Differences from Afrikan tähti

• The game now has one starting location (Rio de Janeiro) and one ending location (Machu Picchu), these are not interchangeable.
• The Native American guide is a new token.
• The additional rule that a player can travel on the sea for free if he/she has no money left has now been made official.