Cards & Components

Every Men-Nefer component with its picture and what it does: boards, Crafts, Papyri, Trade Contracts, Deities, Mastaba and Queens’ Pyramids Tiles, Action Tablets, player pieces, the solo pieces and the Promo Tiles.

Pictures are from Ludonova’s rulebook and solo rulebook unless a caption says otherwise.

Boards

Component	What it is
	Main Board (double-sided) — one side for 2–4 players, the other for solo. The five Houses of Life with their Specialisation Tracks, the Duat Meter, the Nile, the Temple, the Necropolis, the Obelisk and both pyramid tracks. On the Obelisk, score the last scoring space your Orb reached or passed; if its current space has no value, use the score space below (FAQ). The boards
	Personal Boards (4) — Tablet spaces, Food and Heka tracks, Hieroglyph Track, the reserves for your pieces, the Pyramidal Area for Crafts and the Book of the Dead for Papyri. Boards differ only in their sequence of hieroglyphs. Heka is used only to buy and place Papyri (FAQ). Obtain an Action Tablet
	Quarry — holds the Great Pyramid and Queens’ Pyramids pieces in piles by level. Great Pyramid Track

Cards

To be added.

Tiles

Action Tablets

Component	What it is
	Action Tablets (20; backs 1, 2 and 3 four times each, 4 eight times) — each face has a hieroglyph on the left and two actions. Five of each hieroglyph exist. Your three starting Tablets stay on your board (FAQ); a slash means choose one action, and if one is impossible you may still do the other (FAQ). You start with three; five more wait in the market. Obtain an Action Tablet, Reading an action

Photo: BoardGameGeek image 8453030, one column per hieroglyph. Read each Tablet’s actions with the icons on Houses and Actions.

Deities

One Deity at random sits on the Temple Altar; you do its action whenever your Orb reaches or passes a Deity space on the Obelisk. The Obelisk and the Deity

Deity	Its action
	Osiris — Take a free Papyrus; this waives both its market price and the Heka cost of the Book of the Dead space (FAQ).
	Ptah — a free Craft from the market.
	Maat — your Heart and your Feather 1 step each.
	Thot — one Scarab 1 step, without that track’s action.
	Isis — 3 Food and Heka in any mix.
	Mut — Carve a Sphinx or Embalm.
	Hathor — Take any Trade Contract still in any River City, even one your Boat cannot reach (FAQ).
	Sobek — Advance Boats with 2 steps.
	[Promo] Horus — your Hieroglyph Counter 1 step. Promo Tiles
	[Promo] Ra — Advance Priestesses with 2 steps. Promo Tiles

Component	What it is
	Mastaba Tiles (7; 5 used) — set at random around the Necropolis. A Funerary Rite activates the two aligned with the new Sarcophagus. Level I gives one activation, Level II two and Level III three, split between the tiles; a Pedestal may activate any tile even without your Sarcophagus on it (FAQ, FAQ). At each Harvest each Sarcophagus scores the PP of its two tiles. Funerary Rite, Necropolis and Obelisk
	Queens’ Pyramids Tiles (6; 3 used, plus 1 promo) — one beside each Queens’ Pyramid; it sets what your Permissions there are multiplied by at each Harvest. The wooden pieces are placed when Permissions build the matching pyramid (FAQ). All seven faces are under Pyramid scoring.
	Neutral Apprentices Placement Tiles (5, double-sided) — with 2 or 3 players, one at random shows where the Neutral Apprentices start. Setup
	Hammer Tiles (2) — with 2 players or solo, cover the hammers under spaces 3 and 8 of the Great Pyramid Track. The fourth printed hammer is on space 14, not 16 (FAQ). Great Pyramid Track
	Narrator Token — marks the current Era on the Era Track. Era structure

Tokens & pieces

Market pieces

Component	What it is
	Crafts (35: 5 types, 7 of each) — bought from the 4-space Craft Market for Food and placed in your Pyramidal Area, where the Basket on the space makes them an Offering. One action with a Basket icon gives only one Offering, regardless of its number of steps (FAQ). Contracts and a Queens’ Pyramids Tile count them. Obtain a Craft
	Papyri (40) — bought from the 4-space Papyrus Market for Heka and written left to right into your Book of the Dead. Place each in the printed orientation and leave it where placed; you cannot rotate or rearrange later (FAQ, FAQ). Two halves that meet complete a Drawing. Rolled up at each Harvest to move your Feather. Obtain a Papyrus, Roll up Papyri
	Trade Contracts (51: 15 of value 1, 18 of value 2, 18 of value 3) — set out in the River Cities, collected by Activating Boats, turned face down when fulfilled and scored by their back value at every Harvest. Requirements are minimums, so you may exceed the shown number; Contracts turned this Harvest can count toward a fulfilled-Contracts Contract in that same Harvest (FAQ, FAQ). At Era II and III Floods, refill every empty used Contract space with the new era’s value, not just those that held value 2 (FAQ). Each of the 18 requirements is listed under Contracts.
	City Benefit Tokens (6) — one at random in each River City; a Boat activated there gains its Benefit even if the City has no Contracts (FAQ). Activate Boats
	Cloth Bags (2) — hold the Crafts and the Papyri for drawing the markets.

Pyramid pieces

Component	What it is
	Great Pyramid Pieces (13, Levels I–III and the Pyramidion) — placed on a Construction space of the Great Pyramid Track; each placement gives 2 Favours of Khufu. Place a drawn piece on any free space of that level (FAQ). You still collect each Construction or Favour space you pass without stopping (FAQ); once the pyramid is finished, later Construction spaces give nothing. Great Pyramid Track
	Queens’ Pyramids Pieces (12, three of each level and three Pyramidions) — added to a Queens’ Pyramid when you place a Permission beside it. Queens’ Pyramids Track

Your pieces

Each player has one colour: cyan, pink, yellow or white.

Component	What it is
	Apprentices (3 each) — placed in the Houses of Life to Visit or Specialise. Sowing choices
	Neutral Apprentices (4) — in 2–3 player games they crowd Houses and move down one House each Era. Food and placement
	Scarabs (5 each, one per Specialisation Track) — climb when you Specialise. Specialisation tracks
	Priestesses (4 each) — advance through the Temple Rooms. A standing Priestess may Offer without moving, and movement is never compulsory; each makes one Offering per Room. A lying Priestess stands only when moving on, so she cannot Offer twice in one Room (FAQ, FAQ). Advance Priestesses
	Mummies / Sarcophagi (4 each) — Embalm turns a Mummy to its Sarcophagus side; a Funerary Rite places it in the Necropolis. When your Mummy Reserve is already empty, trying to Embalm advances Heart and Feather; Embalming your last piece itself does not (FAQ). Sphinxes and Sarcophagi stay placed and do not return to reserves (FAQ). Necropolis
	Sphinxes (4 each) — Carve, then erect on a Pedestal; once placed they remain there for the game (FAQ). Sphinxes
	Boats (4 each) — sail the Nile for Food, City Benefits and Contracts. Your own Boats cannot end in the same City, but a City and its adjacent river section are separate spaces; other players may share a City (FAQ, FAQ). You may not activate the same City twice in one action; extra Advance Boats steps may be left unused (FAQ, FAQ). When activated, if the arrow’s section already has your Boat, it moves backward to the first section without one (FAQ). Nile
	Permissions of Khufu (3 each) — needed to build the Queens’ Pyramids; they score there. Obtain the Permission of Khufu
	Limestone Blocks (2 each) — your markers on the Great Pyramid and Queens’ Pyramids tracks. Transport Limestone
	Orb — your marker on the Obelisk. The Obelisk and the Deity
	Heart and Feather — your two markers on the Duat Meter. The Duat
	Fish and Ankh — your Food and Heka markers on your Personal Board. Heka and Food
	Hieroglyph Counter — moves along your Hieroglyph Track when a new Tablet matches the next hieroglyph. Obtain an Action Tablet
	Seal — your marker on the Prestige Points Track; starts on 10. Your score cannot go below 0 (FAQ). Prestige Points
	Water Lily — your marker on the Turn Order Track. Flood
	Baskets (9 each) — start on your Pyramidal Area; a Craft placed there takes one, and Offerings carry them into the Temple. Make an Offering

Solo pieces

Component	What it is
	Imhotep’s Action Tiles (9) — one is revealed each of his turns and tells him what to do. Imhotep turns
	Die — picks spaces for Imhotep’s Funerary Rites, Sphinxes and Offerings. When he has no Apprentice on a Sun space, he chooses an empty space where his Scarab is furthest ahead, breaking ties from the top (FAQ). Action priorities

Icons

To be added.