Rajas of the Ganges Strategy Board Game

About this product

Build your province. Balance wealth and fame.

A rich worker-placement strategy game where dice, development and timing shape your rise.

Use workers and dice to expand your province, grow your wealth and race to bring fame and fortune together.

Product Description

Step into 16th-century India as a raja or rani working to transform your estate into a prosperous and prestigious province.

In Rajas of the Ganges, workers open the way to powerful actions while colourful dice serve as valuable resources. Develop your province with roads, markets and buildings, trade for wealth, advance along the river and visit the Great Mogul’s palace for useful opportunities and bonuses.

Every choice feeds into two competing paths: Fame and Money. Buildings can increase your fame, while thriving markets strengthen your wealth. These two tracks move towards each other around the board, creating a distinctive race where success comes from balancing both rather than focusing on only one.

Karma adds another tactical layer, allowing you to influence your dice when the right result could make all the difference. Expand carefully, use your workers well and time your investments wisely as you race to bring your Fame and Money markers together.

View the Rajas of the Ganges Rules (PDF)

Expand your game: Discover Rajas of the Ganges: Goodie Box 2, featuring seven modular additions for even more variety and strategic possibilities.

Why You’ll Love It

• A distinctive wealth-and-fame race: Victory revolves around bringing your Money and Fame markers together on opposing tracks.
• Dice become resources: Dice colour and value influence what you can build, buy and activate rather than simply deciding movement.
• Meaningful worker placement: Send workers to the quarry, marketplace, palace or harbour and choose which opportunities matter most.
• Build your own province: Add Province tiles, extend roads and develop buildings and markets across your personal board.
• Several strategic paths: Generate wealth through markets, earn fame through buildings, travel the river and unlock useful bonuses.
• Karma can rescue the perfect move: Spend Karma to turn a die to its opposite face when a different value would help.
• Advanced play included: The rules also include the more demanding Navaratnas version and the Ganga Module for additional variety.

Quick Details

• Publisher: HUCH!
• Product type: Strategy board game
• Players: 2–4
• Age: 12+
• Play time: Approx. 45–75 minutes
• Designers: Inka Brand & Markus Brand
• Illustration: Dennis Lohausen
• Gameplay: Worker placement, dice management, province building and resource management
• Setting: 16th-century India
• Objective: Develop your province while balancing Fame and Money until the two tracks meet or cross

Good to Know

• Players begin with 3 active workers and can unlock additional workers during play.
• Dice are an important resource and are stored on each player's Kali board.
• Province tiles must connect back to your residence through the road network.
• Markets primarily generate Money, while buildings can generate Fame.
• River movement provides additional rewards and bonuses.
• Karma can change a die to the number on its opposite face.
• The game ends when a player's Fame and Money markers meet or pass one another, after which the current stage is completed and the winner is determined. 
• The box includes an advanced Navaratnas version as well as the Ganga Module.

Game Contents

• 1 Double-Sided Game Board
• 4 Province Boards
• 4 Kali Statue Boards
• 24 Workers
• 48 Dice
• 64 Province Tiles
• 30 Yield Tiles
• 20 Cubes
• 4 Boats
• 4 Fame Markers
• 4 Money Markers
• 4 Bonus Markers
• 8 River Tiles
• 2 Cover Tiles
• 1 Starting Player Elephant