Sit Down! Tiwanaku – Strategy Board Game of Deduction & Exploration (1–4 Players, 60–90 Min)

Sit Down! Tiwanaku invites you to guide a Quechua community across uncharted lands in a vivid, immersive strategy experience. You’ll weigh clues, time your moves, and unveil terrain and crops that honor the ancient Pachamama while balancing a growing landscape. The game blends careful reasoning with thematic storytelling, offering tense moments of discovery and satisfying turns as you read the board’s hidden possibilities. It’s a thoughtfully designed journey for curious minds who enjoy planning, pattern recognition, and collaborative or head-to-head play.

What makes Tiwanaku stand out is how it models a living landscape. The Pachamama wheel determines the secret setup of terrain tiles before play, guiding the discovery of spaces you will explore. You’ll need to infer the right crops for each space, guided by a rule of diversity that prevents two identical crops from coexisting in the same region. This creates unique solutions for every space and encourages you to adapt as the board unfolds. The game supports 1–4 players and offers a solo mode for players who relish a focused challenge, making it a versatile choice for game nights, classrooms, or calm weekend puzzle sessions.

Three ways to play, with lasting replayability

• Overview and theme: Pachamama Mother Earth guides crop tile placement as you explore and plan.
• Logic and deduction: It’s a rich, puzzle-like experience that rewards careful analysis and timing.
• Game modes: Competitive, Cooperative, and Solo mode, with multiple scenarios to keep each session fresh.
• Scenarios and variety: 20 different Scenario discs offer a wide range of layouts and challenges for ongoing play.

What you can expect during a session

During setup, you insert a Scenario disc into the Pachamama wheel to reveal the terrain’s potential contours. As the board opens, you deduce which crops are appropriate for each space while respecting region size and diversity rules. Your decisions impact the board’s balance, and timing matters as you react to new information revealed on every turn. The experience emphasizes thoughtful planning and adaptability, with moments of crisp deduction that feel like solving a living map.

• Group play: ideal for social game nights with friends or family who enjoy strategy and storytelling.
• Solo play: a focused, puzzle-like challenge that’s easy to pause and resume.
• Styling and components: tactile terrain tiles and crop markers create a visually engaging and tactile experience.

Who is Tiwanaku for?

Designed for ages 14 and up, Tiwanaku suits both casual evenings and more serious puzzle sessions. With 1–4 players and a flexible playtime, it adapts to a range of preferences, from quick rounds to longer campaigns, while inviting thoughtful decision-making and creative storytelling about exploration and cultivation.