Published By: Kosmos Games / Rio Grande
# of Players: 2-4
Playing Time: 30 Minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages: 10 and up

Description: Lost Cities: The Board Game, published in Europe as Keltis, is a multi-player game that takes its name and mechanics from Knizia's card game Lost Cities.

Players play cards to move their playing pieces along stone paths. There are cards with 5 different colors/symbols, each corresponding to one path; in addition, each card shows a number (0-10, twice each). In each color, each player can play his cards either ascending or descending. Like Lost Cities, it's better to concentrate on a few paths, since the last spaces grants high points, but ending early gives negative ones.

The player in turn plays one card (out of a hand of 8), or discards one. He moves the corresponding playing piece on the path. Many of the spaces have a token that grants some bonus; either direct points (counted on the scoring track), an extra move on a path, or wish stones that are needed at game end to avoid negative points.

The game ends when a total of 5 playing pieces have reached the 7th space (or more) on their paths. Now, scoring happens:

* Pieces which only moved 1-3 steps give negative points (-4, -3, -2).
* Pieces with 4+ steps grant points (1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 10).
* One piece of each player is higher and scores double.
* Less than two wish stones grant negative points (-3 / -4)
* 5+ wish stones yield a bonus of 10 points.
* All this is added to the points scored during the game


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