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Ave Caesar
Year
1989
Players
2–6
Play time
30min
Min age
12+
Weight
1.35
BGG rating
6.66
BGG rank
#1969
Best with
5, 6

Owned by

Michael Redlich

Local copies

Rating: ★ 8.0

Plays: 2

Board game

Ave Caesar

Ave César

Designed by Wolfgang Riedesser

MeepleMates notes for Ave Caesar

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  • Ave Caesar has been played 2 times on MeepleMates game days.
  • Best with 5, 6 players according to player poll data.
  • BoardGameGeek average rating 6.66 and BGG rank #1969.
  • Groups use this page to connect Ancient, Miniatures, Racing metadata with real play history, ratings and game night notes.
  • Recommended player counts include 4.
Set in the Roman stadium Circus Maximus, in Ave Caesar, players use cards to move their chariots around a quasi-variable track. The track itself has bottlenecks and lane-changing restrictions, which make the race interesting for the racers (very similar to Detroit-Cleveland Grand Prix or Daytona 500). Players are required to race three laps, and they must stop to 'Hail Caesar' before they can finish (a pit stop). The game is light, but if you waste too many moves taking the longer, outside-routes on corners, you may not have enough movement to finish the race. The object of the game is to be the first charioteer to complete three laps of the racing arena. Each player starts with a deck of 24 cards (four sets of cards numbered one through to six). Each player randomly takes three cards into their hand and take turns playing a card, moving their chariot the appropriate number of spaces and then drawing a card to fill their hand back to three cards. There are several places around the track where it narrows from two lanes to a single lane. Chariots finishing where the track narrows will block the chariots immediately behind, thus causing these teams to miss a turn.

Categories

AncientMiniaturesRacing

Mechanics

Hand ManagementTrack MovementRace

Best with how many players

1
Not rec.
2
Not rec.
3
Not rec.
4
Recommended
5
Best
6
Best
6+
Not rec.

Community votes from BoardGameGeek

Language dependence

No necessary in-game text(25 of 27 votes)

Sub-rankings

  • Family Game Rank#641

Videos

BoardGameGeek10

Review5

Session3

Instructional1

Other1

External data

Wikidata enrichment: 2 links · 1 facts · latest game data 07/26/2026.

Latest Wikidata run: ok · 09/23/2026.

Links

Facts

Publisher
Ravensburger