Lost Cities

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Lost Cities
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Game data
author Pure Knizia
graphic Graphic Studio Krüger ,
Claus Stephan ,
Pohl & Rick ,
Fine Tuning (2007)
publishing company Kosmos ,
Rio Grande Games ,
Tilsit Éditions ,
999 Games ,
Devir ,
Marektoy ,
Zvezda ,
Albi ,
Galakta ,
Midgaard Games ,
etc. a.
Publishing year 1999, 2007
Art Card game
Teammates 2
Duration 30 minutes
Age from 10 years on

Awards

Lost Cities is a card game for two by Reiner Knizia that was published in 1999 by the Kosmos publishing house . It is suitable for players aged ten and over and takes about 30 minutes. The game won the Gamers Choice Award in 2000 and in 2006 it was awarded the Spanish Juego del Año game award.

On the basis of Lost Cities , Reiner Knizia developed the board game Keltis , which was named Game of the Year in 2008 and in 2018 also under the title Lost Cities - Das Brettspiel together with a slightly modified version of Lost Cities ( Lost Cities - Das Duell ) and a Travel version ( Lost Cities - The Adventure to Go ) appeared.

Background and material

The aim of the game Lost Cities is to bring up to five expeditions to a successful conclusion by laying out expedition cards in ascending order and to multiply their value by laying out betting cards beforehand.

The game material consists of the game instructions

  • a game plan,
  • 45 expedition cards in five colors and with values ​​2 to 10 for five different expeditions to remote places in the world as well
  • 15 betting cards in five colors

In the Lost Cities - The Duel , published in 2018, another set of betting cards was published and a game plan printed on both sides with an additional purple expedition was added.

Style of play

Lost Cities

In preparation, the game board is spread out between the players. He shows a discard pile for each of the five colors. Eight cards are dealt face down to each player. The remaining cards form a face-down pile.

It is played alternately. The player whose turn it is must first play one of his hand cards and has the choice between two options: He can start or continue an expedition, or he puts a card face up on the discard pile of the corresponding color. To begin an expedition, a player can either display a betting card or a number card. When continuing, the card values ​​must increase and an additional betting card can only be placed directly on one that is already on display at the start of the expedition and never on a number card.

After a card has been laid out in one of the two ways, the player draws a card. He can choose between a card from the face-down draw pile or the open discard pile, but may not take a card that he has just discarded. Then it is the other player's turn.

The game ends as soon as the last card of the face-down pile has been drawn. This is followed by the scoring, in which each expedition is scored individually. The values ​​of the expedition cards are added up and expanded by the same value for each betting card; If there is a betting card at the beginning of the expedition, the result is doubled, with two betting cards tripled and with three betting cards quadrupled. The individual values ​​are then added to the overall result of the player. The player with the higher total score wins.

Issues and response

Lost Cities was developed by the German game designer Reiner Knizia and was first published in 1999 by the game publisher Kosmos . In addition to the German edition by Kosmos, the game was later published in English ( Rio Grande Games ), French ( Tilsit Éditions ), Dutch ( 999 Games ), Spanish ( Devir ), Portuguese (Devir), Finnish ( Marektoy ), Russian ( Zvezda ) , Czech ( Albi ), Polish ( Galakta ) Danish / Swedish / Finnish / Norwegian ( Midgaard Games ) and in other languages. In 2007 Kosmos brought out a new edition with changed graphics. In 2018 a version with an additional expedition was released as Lost Cities - The Duel and in a travel version ( Lost Cities - The Adventure to Go ).

The four-person game Keltis , which uses the same game principle and was named Game of the Year in 2008, was also released by Kosmos . The game appeared in 2018, optically in a different form, under the title Lost Cities - The Board Game .

Awards

In 1999, the game won fourth place in the à la carte card game award and the following year it won the Gamers Choice Award . In 2006 it was game of the year ( Juego del Año ) in Spain.

Computer games

Until September 28, 2009 there was an online playable version of the game in the board game world . A variant for the iPhone was released on August 23, 2012 . The Coding Monkeys from Munich are responsible for the development .

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Lost Cities in the game database BoardGameGeek (English)
  2. ↑ JUEGO del Año 2006 en ESPAÑA
  3. ^ Forum of the board game world
  4. ↑ lostcitiesapp.com

Web links

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