Codex: The Voynich Manuscript

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Players
2-4
Weight
N/A
Playtime
120 min
Age
12+

📖 About This Game

We go back to the years around 1925. The Voynich Manuscript, which no human has been able to translate to this day is written in an unknown script and language and profusely illustrated with images of unidentified plants, enigmatic astronomical drawings, and puzzling human figures. Find the missing pages of the medieval codex and discover the secret behind the magical drawings and mysterious glyphs. Compete against your competitors and be the first to solve all puzzles. But be careful, agents are on their way to steal your discoveries and knowledge. Take advantage of the world's largest Zeppelin airships, airplanes and ocean liners to get anywhere quickly. Who will be the first to solve the big riddle and thus become world famous or keep his occult secret to himself in order to become one of the most powerful people in the world? Codex is a board game with strategic and cooperative elements for two to six players in the race for one of the greatest riddles of bibliophile and occult history. The game mechanic is a combination of deck building, set collection, worker placement, area movement and engine building. In Codex, players choose a character and secret mission to complete. Players then use travel tickets to move to different cities in the world to collect clues and artifacts. Codex' is semi-competitive. Competing players may also be in the same city, trying to meet the same agents and could end up stealing from you or killing your agent. The first player to get the points and meet the requirements of their secret mission, wins the game. .