Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Easier to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Light strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Choose colorful stone lots in secret, then assemble a layered Maya pyramid whose visible color groups determine the score.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Market
Buy and sell through a shared supply whose availability or prices can change.
Connections
Create meaningful links between locations, pieces, or concepts.
Predictive Bid
Bid on how well you expect to perform, then try to meet that prediction.
Auction / Bidding
Bid against other players to determine who receives an item, action, or priority.
Read the full game description
Yaxha turns a bag of wooden cubes into a compact contest of prediction, timing, and three-dimensional pattern building. Each round fills one market per player with three colored stones. Everyone secretly chooses a market, reveals together, and uses turn order to settle collisions before immediately adding the claimed cubes to a growing four-level pyramid. Placement constraints reward planning across layers, while three changing bonus cards and the largest visible connected group in each color determine the final score after ten rounds.
