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Lost Cities

CHALLENGING EXPEDITIONS FOR TWO

The rules tell us stories about expeditions to the Himalayas, into the Amazon rain forests, into deserts, to volcanoes or to Atlantis, thus providing a nice frame for a simple, fast, cute card placement game.

There are cards of values 2-10 and 3 bidding cards for each of the five colors. A small game board shows placement spaces for all five colors, and players are dealt 8 cards each at the start of the game. In your turn you can start a new expedition = row of cards or place a card into an already existing row. A newly placed card must have a higher value than the previously placed one. Bidding cards can only be placed at the start of row before any other card, they cannot be inserted later. As an alternative to placing a card you can discard a card on the corresponding stack. Then you draw a card, either from the face down stack or the top card from one of the discard piles. The game ends immediately when the last card is drawn from the draw stack. Then each started expedition = row of a player is scored separately: You add the card values and detract 20 points for expedition costs, the result can be negative and is multiplied by 2, 3 or in case there are 1, 2 or 3 bidding cards in the row. Each row that comprises 8 or more cards including bidding cards earns you a bonus of 20 points. If you score the higher total of points you win.

Somehow you feel played, but must play again immediately to find a strategy that must be there! An ideal game for in-between, but with the potential for a permanent companion, because it playes so fast and nicely.

Spieler         : 2

Alter            : ages 10 and up

Dauer           : approx. 20-40 min

Autor           : Reiner Knizia

Grafik          : Claus Stephan

Titel englisch          : ident

Preis            : approx. 20,00 Euro

Verlag          : Kosmos 2010

                     www.kosmos.de

Genre                    : Card placement game

Zielgruppe             : For families

Mechanismen         : Place cards in rows for points

Kommentar:

New edition in a tin

Series: Klassiker für Zwei

First edition 1999

Rules unchanges

Still one of the best games for two

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