Rio Grande Games Lost Cities Board Game - 2 Player Strategy & Spiel des Jahres Award Winner

Product Description Lost Cities is a head-to-head expedition strategy game where you lead adventurers and a researcher along five separate paths seeking ancient civilizations. Each turn you play a card to move one figure forward, carefully managing card values to ensure you can keep advancing without getting stuck.Strategic Gameplay: Success demands tactical decision-making. Early path steps cost you points, so timing your advances matters. You must balance sending adventurers down multiple paths while preserving high cards for critical moves. Collect artifacts along the way to boost your final score, and position your researcher wisely since it doubles all points earned on its path.Why Players Love It:Elegant design that reveals new strategies with every sessionCompetitive yet cooperative social experience perfect for couples and small groupsAward-winning pedigree provides confidence in quality and depthFast-playing sessions fit naturally into busy adult schedulesTimeless appeal that never feels dated or gimmickyFor 2 to 5 players. Playing time 45 to 60 minutes. From the designers at Rio Grande Games. From the Manufacturer Each player leads a five-member group of four adventurers and a researcher on the search for lost cities. To reach each city, the players must travel a separate path nine steps long. On a player‘s turn, he plays a card and moves one of his adventurers or his researcher. The color of the card played determines which path the figure moves on. The player should try to play a card of low value, because when the player wants to move this adventurer again, he must play a card of equal or higher value. Each player must send his adventurers on different paths - no two from the same player on athe same path. A player may send all his adventurers to search, but need not. The goal is it to get one‘s adventurers as far as possible along the paths they travel since the first steps of a path score minus points. Only the later steps on a path score positive points. At the end of the game, the winner is the player who earned the most points. Artifacts, which adventurers can collect along the way, also earn the player‘s points toward a possible victory. Also, the researcher (the larger figure) is more valuable than the adventurers during the scoring at the end, the player doubles its points, making it imperative to move it as far along its path as possible. For 2-5 players. Takes 45-60 minutes to play. Tons of replay value.

• For 2-5 players
• Takes 45-60 minutes to play
• Tons of replay value
• 2008 Spiel des Jahres Winner
• Tons of replay value