Watch “How to Play Ra in 8 minutes,” a how-to-play guide for Ra from Bitewing Games on BoardGameVideo.
Description provided by Bitewing Games on YouTube:
*This is a prototype, the wear you see on the tiles is due to this being a pre-production copy. The final production won't have this wear.
Learn how to play Ra from 25th Century Games with Kyle from Bitewing Games in just 8 minutes. But wait...the video is longer than 8 minutes. The last 4 are just examples to help you out, but after just 8 minutes you'll be ready to go!
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Timestamps
0:00 - Gameplay Overview
0:40 - Setup
1:20 - Action Choices
2:31 - Auctions
4:48 - End of Round
5:31 - Scoring Tiles
7:06 - Disaster Tiles
7:41 - End Game Scoring
8:17 - Examples
11:31 - Outro
Mainly reviews. Ra is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 61 reviews, 16 how-to-play guides, 12 recorded sessions, 27 unboxings, and 8 other videos.
2 - 5 players
45 - 60 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting
About Ra, from BoardGameGeek:
Ra is an auction and set-collection game with an Ancient Egyptian theme. Each turn players are able to purchase lots of tiles with their bidding tiles (suns). Once a player has used up his or her suns, the other players continue until they do likewise, which may set up a situation with a single uncontested player bidding on tiles before the end of the round occurs. Tension builds because the round may end before all players have had a chance to win their three lots for the epoch. The various tiles either give immediate points, prevent negative points for not having certain types at the end of the round (epoch), or give points after the final round. The game lasts for three "epochs" (rounds). The game is easy to learn.
From the Box:
The game spans 1500 years of Egyptian history in less than an hour!
The players seek to expand their power and fame and there are many ways to accomplish this: Influencing Pharaohs, Building monuments, Farming on the Nile, Paying homage to the Gods, Advancing the technology and culture of the people. Ra is an auction and set collecting game where players may choose to take risks for great rewards or... And all this is for the glory of the Sun God Ra!
Designer
Reiner Knizia
Artists
Leonardo Borazio, Edge Studio, Zach Graves, Allison Kline, Gahyun Lee, Ian O'Toole, Tiago Sousa, Franz Vohwinkel