Take turns doing one of 3 actions until 1 player can’t do a valid action
Take a tile from the market into your hand (no hand limit)
take it from the direction the ankh is pointing
move the ankh to the spot it was in (facing a direction you choose)
remove all the tiles it passed over (if any) and add them face down to your corruption board. (you can review the tiles on your corruption board, but not your opponents)
Special rules
if you take a tile with a deben token (coin) in the top right you may discard the tile to draw a deben token from the bag
if no tiles are available the fill the market first
take the ankh off
refill the market (do this as much as possible if tiles run out)
choose from the 4 center tiles as your tile
if you take a character tile you must orient the ankh to an available tile if you can (i.e. you can’t force a refill of the board)
Sell a set of tiles
Reveal at least 3 matching tiles
characters can be included if they have a matching icon
statues (crocodiles) are wild
if the set matches an existing set you may add to it (still must reveal at least 3 tiles)
a set of an icon you haven’t played before can’t be composed entirely of wild tiles
if any tokens are left when you play a set, look at them all and choose 1 to keep (they’re not replaced). The ability kicks in immediately.
Play a character
Discard a character tile from your hand, immediately apply its ability
You may play characters who’s abilities have no impact, but the ability kicks in if it can
Game End
Unscored sets (still in hand) are discarded from the game
All tiles left in hand (after discarding sets) are added to the players corruption tiles
The player with the fewest tiles on their corruption tile gains a draw of a deben token, and an additional draw for each set of 3 tiles they have less than their opponent. E.g. 1 tile vs 8 tiles = 3 token draws
Scoring
Sets score by number of tiles in set multiplied by number of scarabs in set
