Which was invented farther north, Through the Desert or Tantrix?
Through the Desert Through the Desert is a German-style board game designed by Reiner Knizia. It was originally released in 1998 by German game publisher, Kosmos, under the name "Durch die Wüste". Players place pastel colored plastic camels on a hexagon-based board in an attempt to score points by capturing watering holes and reaching oases.
Heptanomis Heptanomis ( ; Greek: ἡ Επτανομίς , in Ptol. iv. 5. § 55; more properly Ἑπτὰ Νομοί or Ἑπταπολίς , in Dionysius Periegetes 251; and sometimes ἡ μεταζύ[γή] ; meaning "Seven Nomes", a "nome" being a subdivision of ancient Egypt), the modern "Misr-al-Wosta" of the Arabian geographers, or Middle Egypt, may be described generally as the district which separates the Thebaïd from the Delta.