This is a little-known pure auction game that hasn't yet been picked up by a publisher in which the players are big city pharaohs who are trying to excavate slaves in order to lose the most penguins.

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Thanks to the following BGGers for their help in adding words and phrases: ben_ethus, chaddyboy_2000, derscheid, dodonna, pronoblem
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