Lost Cities – The Board Game

December 7, 2015 - Comment

The research teams are outfitted and ready to embark on their adventures to find five forgotten cities. Who will lead the way to fantastic discoveries? Each player guides a team of explorers on up to five expeditions. To advance along an expedition path, a card in the path’s color must be played for each step

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The research teams are outfitted and ready to embark on their adventures to find five forgotten cities. Who will lead the way to fantastic discoveries? Each player guides a team of explorers on up to five expeditions. To advance along an expedition path, a card in the path’s color must be played for each step forward. The card must be of equal or greater value to the player’s card previously played on that path. After playing or discarding a card, the player draws a new card. Skilled team leaders assess when to play, hold, or discard their cards to move their own teams forward while at the same time preventing their opponent teams from getting ahead. Points are awarded based on how far the explorers make it along their paths. Each step earns more points than the one before it, and the first three steps earn negative points. Along the way, players can increase points by finding artifacts, victory points, and shortcuts forward. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins!.

Product Features

  • Adventures to find five forgotten cities
  • Each player guides a team of explorers on up to five expeditions
  • Skilled team leaders assess when to play, hold, or discard their cards
  • Points are awarded based on how far the explorers make it along their paths
  • The player with the most points at the end of the game wins!

Comments

Ag says:

A GREAT FAMILY GAME I have the Rio Grande version of this game, in other words I have been the owner of this game for several years now. This game is designed by the famous game designer Reyner Knizia and is based on the popular Kosmos 2 player card game Lost Cities and or Keltis board game. The board is beautifull, the game components are wood and the cards are good quality (at least on the Rio Grande version). This is a light family game with simple rules and mechanics that include hand management and a decent…

IAMSLICK says:

OK at first but then kind of boring This game was fun the first few times we played it, but people quickly realized based on your initial hand of cards whether you had any chance of winning or not. You proceed down one of five paths of a given color by playing cards for that color in order from smallest to highest. If you get a hand of high cards you get stuck and get into a pattern of just discarding to get a lower card, which does not always work out. We have had players spend more than half of their game just exchanging…

Unity Dienes says:

Good for under 10 years old, too. Fun to play with kids. This is a cute game that is simple and very easy to learn, but still strategic and at least somewhat skill-based (but luck does play a factor). The instructions are so simple that they take up a single double-sided sheet of paper, and anyone can be taught the rules in under 5 minutes. My 6 year old was able to grasp game play and join the fun. We enjoy much more complex games as a family, and this one will NOT be a hit with my teenager (for whom Agricola is too easy), but for the younger set…

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