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Expedition

Bonanza Creek or Taj Mahal

The era of explorations and discoveries is nearing its end, but as of now sponsors still finance expeditions and go along to visit explored locations.

You receive three travel tickets and five expedition cards, the locations on the board corresponding to those cards are marked with your tokens; then you receive three or seven more cards, depending on the number of players. Three expeditions – red, blue and yellow – begin on the starting case in Europe and you want to direct them to locations on your own cards.

In your turn, you place an arrow at the end of the expedition of this color. If the tip of the arrow now touches a location for which you have a card to lay out this card, regardless of who placed the arrow. If there is also one of your tokens at this location there, you take it in addition to laying down the card. If you placed an arrow you can use up to two tickets to add another arrow or to remove an arrow, to swap a card or to discard a card for a location touched by an arrow within an expedition. It the expedition reaches a blue special case, you may place another arrow; on a yellow special case, you get a travel ticket. You can also pass your turn and take a travel ticket instead.

When someone places his last card, you score points for laid-down cards and collected tokens, cards left in your hand and tokens on the board cost you victory points.

This nearly classic game was published first in 1995 as Terra X and is still a very good travel game and a marvelous family game, maybe because of its clear, simple, straightforward mechanisms. This is a game that should be in every collection.

Players: 2-6

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Wolfgang Kramer

Artist: Marc Magielsky

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Amigo Spiele 2016

Web: www.amigo-spiele.de

Genre: Travel, placement

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

New edition

In-game text is information only, not game-relevant

Compares to:

Travel games with discarding cards of reached destinations

Other editions:

Earlier editions at Queen Games and Ravensburger

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0