Hammurabi |
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The classic game of strategy and resource allocation |
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Try your hand at governing ancient Sumeria successfully for a 10 year term of office. Hammurabi (or, the game Hamurabi), one of the earliest computer games, is the great granddaddy of strategy and resource allocation games such as Civilization. Hammurabi is named for the second millenium B.C. Babylonian king recognized for codifying laws, known as The Code of Hammurabi. The game of Hammurabi lasts 10 years, and each year you determine how to allocate your scarce bushels of grain: buying and selling acres of land, feeding your population, and planting seeds for next year's crops The Rules:
The Basic Strategy:
Along the way, you'll deal with famine, plagues, fluctuating crop yields and varying prices for land. The object of the game is to last 10 years to the end of your term and to leave the city better off than how you found it. Leaders are evaluated based on how many people starved during one's leadership, and how much land per person remains after the end of the 10 year term. This game of Hammurabi and is based on the BASIC game, Hamurabi, popularized by David Ahl. |