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Players have to choose the hollow areas of the King Solomons Mines, to collect richness, beeing careful not to be under a curse.
The possibility to dig on a game board developped on 4 different levels is very peculiar.

From the diary of Charles Bridge, archaeologist.
The 14th of February 1876, unexplored side of southern Sudan.
“Today professor Winslet decided to open the cave on the side of the sacred mountain. In a few minutes we will know whether all these efforts and risks had been useless or not: will it be a not important hollow or the mythical King Solomon’s mines? The last stone rolls out, Winslet and I light the torches and get in.
On the walls zillions of crystal stars bright: “Diamonds!” murmurs Winslet.
We go further and from the darkness heaps and heaps of wonderful and mysterious objects emerge, fascinating and worrying: golden artifacts , fetishes, parcels. But suddenly a cry breaks the stationary air “Akmeth stahlan!” shouts a bearer pointing a mummy; other bearers run away terrified. “Ancient demons here, men fear” whispers Ahmed, the chief of the Arab merchants. To bring out all these enormous treasures will maybe be more difficult than the trip that lead us here…”

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The gameboard

König Salomons Schatzkammer was published thanks to its attendance to Premio Archimede