secrets of the lost tomb board game reviews

#Secrets of the lost tomb board game reviews full#

Once all players have passed, check the four Treasure Sites. If you can’t place any more pawns, then pass. Whenever you place pawns on a Treasure Site, take an artifact. The first spot is always one pawn, then two pawns, and so on. Starting with the first player, each player takes turns placing their pawns on a Treasure Site. The key is to figure out what’s the most valuable set of artifacts first, I suppose. However, you’re not totally sure how much things are worth, but you know how much they’re not worth. Usually it’ll end up in some rich dude’s house. You play as some absolute garbage “archaeologists”, raiding sites of major cultural significance to find artifacts that you can sell on the uh, “aftermarket”. Once you’ve done that, give one player the first-player token: Then, set out the Artifacts below the Treasure Sites: If there are any cards remaining, place them in a Side Deck (a face-down stack next to the Treasure sites). Place one face-down at each Location, and then shuffle the cards together. Shuffle each Treasure Site’s Market Cards: Put the other two pawns in each color aside, for now. There are also white pawns, but they wouldn’t have shown up in this shot. Will you be able to reduce an entire culture down to a profit? Or will you end up shortchanged? Only problem is, other people have the same idea. You figure if you can sneak some peeks at other people’s research, you may be able to deduce the right solution. Unfortunately, it turned up short because all you know is what certain artifacts aren’t worth. This is not a super cool thing for you to be doing, but as long as you yell “this belongs in a museum, far removed from the culture that produced it, so that they cannot benefit from its appreciation”, then you’ve at least covered your bases? Either way, you want to ensure that you’re only stealing the most profitable things, so you’ve done some research. In Curios, you are all each the bad boy / girl / person of archaeology, and you’re breaking into sites that are likely sacred to various cultures to pilfer artifacts so that you can sell them for big money. Last up is Curios, which is the game we’re looking at now. Another is Point Salad we’ll get to that next week.

#Secrets of the lost tomb board game reviews full#

Full review at the link, loved it, thought it was weird that Santa showed up but it didn’t negatively impact the game, etc.

One, I’ve already covered: Walking in Burano, from EmperorS4.

They do Big Game Night at Gen Con and are releasing three new titles, this year. I’m running a giveaway this week for two copies of Catch the Moon! Find out more here.Īlright, let’s return to a few games from Alderac. Full disclosure: A review copy of Curios was provided by Alderac Entertainment Group.