Five Tribes

Five Tribes is played on a grid of tiles, each covered with colored wooden meeples representing five tribes. Players bid for turn order, then pick up all the meeples on one tile and drop them one by one along a path, like the classic game mancala. The last meeple must land on a tile with a matching color, and you take all of that color from the tile.

Each tribe does something different: some earn coins, some assassinate other meeples, some let you collect goods or summon djinns with powerful abilities. Emptying a tile lets you claim it with a camel. The puzzle of finding the best move is the heart of the game, and there's a lot to see on each turn.