Thebes - GeekNights Presents

Tonight on GeekNights Presents, we review Peter Prinz's Thebes, an updated version of Jenseits von Theben. Thematically, it's Indiana Jones: the game. Mechanically, it implements that theme to a startling degree. Dig deep. Box art is from the card game, but we're mostly talking about the board game with the spinners.

Excerpt from the full episode of GeekNights originally aired on 2016-03-01:

Image Attribution:

Chris Norwood
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garea37
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Sammo Hoi
Public Domain

Arne Hoffmann
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This video is licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.

[Penceos]

In the year since you first reviewed this, Thebes is back in print. Good news, you can actually buy it now :P

[NerdsofWisdom]

I bought the game because of this episode and it became one of my favourite games.

[eastlynburkholder]

The 'time spent' is an interesting mechanism.

[erincurry]

are you going to continue your utena series?

[keleneses]

Looks like you used the box image for the card game, not the board game.

[QichinVODs]

"Jenseits" means "beyond", so "Jenseits von Theben" is "Beyond Thebes".

[Electric_Wizard]

Isn't it pronounced "thee-beez"? Nm, they're 'going around yurp'