The rivers are still flowing since last year's review of this game, as players aim to build the most powerful civilization along their banks in ancient Mesopotamia. You earn the colored cubes as victory points for placing resource tiles on kingdoms with leaders matching their affiliation, are kept hidden. Your greatest weakness is your strength: The winner at the end is the player with the most victory points in his weakest resource! You will have to choose between placing resources or leaders, decide whether conflict or peace between kingdoms is best, build scoring monuments, and use nasty tiles to disrupt opponents. The game hasn't become any easier to learn, but your effort will be rewarded with a great experience.

In Euphrat & Tigris, players attempt to develop their civilization in four aspects--population, trade, agriculture, and religion. The challenge, however, is to build your civilization in a balanced manner with respect to these four aspects. Throughout the game, players earn points in each of these four spheres of influence--then at the end of the game, each player compares their weakest sphere of influence to each other player's weakest sphere to determine the winner. For example, if a player has the most points in each of three spheres, but none in the fourth sphere, his score is zero! This unique scoring system adds a fascinating dimension to the game's solid play. Highly recommended.