Description

User summary:

Theme - A fortune telling game based on cards and pendulum. Played solo or between two players with roles of questioner (later on just Q) and interpreter (N). The interpreter leads the game and the questioner is the one receiving information about his/her home, work, personality, love, future and past.

Game-play - The game-play is divided into two phases 1) the card turning and 2) the pendulum swinging.

1) The card turning phase starts by picking up the proper coloured scarabs to the game board; the hair, eyes and favourite colour of the Q. The Q shuffles the purple 54 card deck and hands it over to N. N divides the deck into 3 separate decks of 18, 9 and 27 cards. The cards are dealt on the game board in the order 18, 27 and 9. The 18 cards are dealt on locations shown at the front page of the rule leaflet. The cards have 6 words in them and one of those is picked depending which is forming a pyramid with the game board (the black half of the pyramid on the left side of the card and the white half of the pyramid on the game board). While the cards are dealt, the N questions the Q if the word on the cards have any special meaning. The forming words are related to either home (1st vertical row), work (2nd), personality (3rd), love (4th), future (5th) or past (6th), depending which vertical row the cards are placed to. The 27 cards are then dealt on the game board (some restrictions apply, see the rule leaflet). Then the deck of 9 cards is used as a key to whole interpretation. At last the rest cards of the deck of 27 are used to check if something is being dominant on some areas of the Q's life. The final interpretations varies each playing time.

2) The pendulum swinging phase starts by placing the four decks of 28 cards onto the game board. The decks are placed on lower part of the game board, around the pyramid (letter A shown on the first page of the rule leaflet). The decks represents the areas of home, work, personality and love. The players decide one of the four categories and Q decides a question he/she wants to get answered related to that category. The transparent pyramid is placed on the game board and the pendulum is used for random number selection. There is numbers of 1-28 around the pyramid on the game board and the random pendulum swing decides the number of the chosen card. The N reads the text on the proper card to the Q. Same is repeated to other categories and questions.

Goal of the game - Interpreting the message gotten with cards and pendulum and gaining more self-consciousness.

The game includes:

1 game board
1 transparent pyramid
1 pendulum
4 decks of cards (28 cards each)
1 purple deck of cards (54 cards)
2 bags including different coloured scarab buttons
1 rule leaflet (4 pages)

From Finnish intro on the rule leaflet:

"Karnak on kiehtovan jännittävä ennustuspeli, jota voi pelata yksin tai yhdessä. Se perustuu eräisiin muinaisegyptiläisiin mysteereihin ja kulttuuriperinteisiin. Koska peli on tunnettujen astrologian ja horoskooppien asiantuntijoiden suunnittelema, pelaajat voivat sen avulla myös kehittää omaa kuudetta aistiaan ja salattuja kykyjään. Luonnollisesti sitä voidaan pelata myös pelkkänä pelinä, mutta moni varmasti mielellään käyttää sitä oman itseymmärryksensä kehittämiseen ja hankkii sen avulla tietoja sisimmästä minuudestaan. Näitä tietoja voi sitten soveltaa toisten, kenties vähemmän onnekkaiden ihmisten auttamiseen."