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Lost Cities Das Brettspiel

From stones to cities

Once there were paths of stones, now there are lost cities - Keltis, Game of the Year 2008, returns as Lost Cities The Board Game. Expeditions search for five lost cities in desert, jungle, lava, water and rocks.

Event tiles are placed on the board, you receive eight of 110 cards in five colors and have four expedition member pawns and one leader pawn.

In your turn, you play a card and use it to place one of your pawns at the start of an expedition or move if forward on the expedition path; or you can discard a card on the corresponding color stack- Then you draw a card from one of the discards piles or the face-down draw pile. You can begin every expedition, but need not do so - remember that an expedition only scores positive from Stage Four.

After the first card, each card played at an expedition must be equal to or higher than the value of the previous card; cards you play you put down stacked. When a pawn enters a stage with an event tile, you take artifacts or victory points; for Stage tokens you move a pawn one step, the token stays on the board. When a pawn has reached Stage Nine, you can still play correct cards for that expedition, but move a pawn in another expedition.

When the fifth pawn arrives at Stage Seven, the round is scored for coins and expeditions, the leader pawn doubles the value of an expedition. After three rounds you win with most points after scoring artifacts.

In the Auf und Ab version you can select for each expedition to play it in ascending or descending order.

A felicitous relaunch of an award-winning game, featuring new mechanism details; here it is justified to say old, but good!

Players: 2-4

Age: 10+

Time: 40+

Designer: Reiner Knizia

Artist: Cem Kara, Andreas Resch, Anoka Design Studio

Price: ca. 30 Euro

Publisher: Kosmos Verlag 2018

Web: www.kosmos.de

Genre: play cards to place pawns

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de en ru

In-game text: no

Comments:

Revised new edition of Keltis, SdJ 2008

Well-working new detail mechanisms

Very attractive new art

Compares to:

Lost Cities, Keltis

Other editions:

Kosmos (en), Zvezda (ru), and many earlier ones as Keltis/Lost Cities

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0