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Lost Legacy

The Spaceship or the Flying Garden

Games by Seiji Kanai are usually minimalistic and so is Lost Legacy. The small box holds 32 cards, but you need only 16 of them for a game - 16 cards comprise one set, either the basic game "The Starship" or the so-called expansion "The Flying Garden. You use one of those sets for a game, always with the same rules, but you can also assemble a deck of 16 cards of your choice or you can use all 32 cards for a game with six players, the course of the game will always be slightly different.

In all variants the topic is a mysterious Lost Legacy that must be found. One card is laid out face-down to begin the Ruins deck und you are dealt one card. You play until the draw pile is empty. You hold a card and draw a card. Then you play one of those cards face-up and implement its effects; this can result in players being ejected from the game or in a card being placed in the Ruins. When the draw pile is empty the investigation phase begins: In ascending order of the number values of your remaining card in hand you can look at the card of any player or at a card from the ruins. Should you find the Lost Legacy, you win. When nobody finds it, all have lost together. Should all players but one have been ejected from the game, this player is the winner.

Lost Legacy cannot deny its relationship to Love Letter, but Love Letter is the better game. Lost Legacy is a bit heavy on the chance element, you must guess more than you can bluff and often cannot use powerful cards properly due to lack of information. Tactic games from the decision if you use a powerful card to try and eliminate an opponent or keep the card for the end game.

Players: 2-4

Age: 10+

Time: 10+

Designer: Hayato Kisaragi, Seiji Kanai

Artist: Noboru Sugiura

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher:  One Draw / Japon Brand 2013

Web: www.japonbrand.cvom

Genre: Cards, guessing

Users: With friends

Version: multi

Rules: en jp

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Officially dubbed a variant of Love Letter

Rather diffuse topic

Variant included, when used together with the base game six can can play

Compares to:

Love Letter

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 2

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0