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OBJECT Player to your right picks up a trivia card from the pile and

The object of Aeschylus: The Game is to move around the reads the question aloud. If you answer the question correctly
board by correctly answering trivia questions. Questions are on your turn, roll the die and move player token ahead the
taken from all three plays of the Oresteia trilogy, including the number of spaces you rolled. If answered incorrectly, do not
Agamemnon, the Libation Bearers, and the Eumenides, and move. Turn is over after each question, whether answered
from Aeschylus’s life and tragedy in general. Questions must correctly or incorrectly.
be answered as fill in the blank trivia, from a selection of four
different choices, or by deciding whether the statement given WINNING
on the card is true or false. Correctly answer more trivia questions correctly than the
other players and be the first individual player to reach the
EQUIPMENT law courts of the Areopagos. The first player to reach the
• Game board Court of the Areopagos wins the game.
• Deck of trivia cards
• 4 player tokens PENALTIES
• 1 standard die Any player moves back 5 spaces for:
• Announcing a guess out of turn;
SETUP • Announcing more than one guess within the same turn;
1) Give each player one player token and set it on the or
start space at the House of Atreus. • Helping another player guess an answer. (Remember...
2) Place the trivia cards on the space on the board they are the enemy).
3) The player whose birthday is coming up next starts the
game by answering a trivia question correctly and
rolling the die. Play then continues clockwise.

GAME PLAY
On each turn, a player has a chance to answer the question on
one card and advance along the board. The die is rolled to
determine what space is moved to if the player successfully
completes a question. Whether the question is answered
successfully or not, turn always ends after one card.

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