Lost Ruins of Arnak - Playthrough & Review

hi everyone my name is bonnie and i'm naveen from before you play and today we have another playthrough for you this time it is for cge's newest release called the lost ruins of arnock this one's designed by min and elwynn two designers and it is a game that was on our essen top five most anticipated release games i was trying to think of how many um and so we both had five games that we thought we wanted to play and we got this one in and we're gonna play today that's right so this game is for one to four players it does have a solo mode which is nice and it is kind of a big mix of mechanisms that sometimes you wouldn't really normally see i guess in games there's worker placement there's deck building there's lots to explore in this game resource management yes and so as per usual we are going to teach the game we're going to do a full play through and have a review at the end and we're going to include time stamps down below just in case anybody wants to kind of jump around but before we get started we would like to kindly please ask that you turn on your klingon subtitles just in case we make any rules mistakes and if you enjoy content like this and would like to see more please consider subscribing and with that we're going to get started so if you please direct your attention to the center of the table we have a massive board this time it is massively vertical we are zoomed out yes we are zoomed out all the way so uh during the play through and doing some parts of the teach if we need to kind of discuss the smaller parts we will do our best to include zoomed in shots and so in this game we have landed on this mysterious island called arnok and as explorers we are going to be exploring this island discovering big sites we're going to be fighting guardians we're going to be exploring and researching the temple itself in the hopes of earning the most points at the end of five rounds it's a euro it's a euro yeah so there are actually two sides of the board on the opposite side is the snake temple side which is kind of like the more advanced version of the game we are playing with the base setup there is also another piece of the board that goes at the very bottom that we had to emit for purposes of filming uh and it just extends the board even further down this way so we just couldn't get it on camera yeah and so what that board does is it holds all the resources all the tiles so we just kind of put everything else off to the side here and so this game is played over the course of five rounds this is a round tracker also known as the moon staff and so each round we are going to be taking turns back and forth taking actions until everybody at the table passes and that would signal the end of the round and so each player also has their own player board as well as a starting hand of six cards and so at the start of the game we all have the same distribution of cards we have two funding cards two exploration cards and two fear cards which are going to give us minus points at the end of the game now before we kind of dive into the different types of actions you can take i just want to explain how these cards work because it's actually really important in understanding the flow of the game so each card has a symbol at the top left hand corner and it is going to be either a shoe or a car or a boat and those are travel symbols the cards also have effects in the middle of the card and so when you play a card on your turn you're going to use the benefit of either the top left-hand corner for the purposes of traveling your explorer onto the board or for the middle effect now the other thing is sometimes you'll see a lightning bolt on any of the cards really anywhere on the board or any of the tiles that lightning bolt is the universal symbol for a free action so if i were to play one of these exploration cards and i play it as the middle benefit i would be able to take a compass from the supply because that's what that symbolizes and i would still have a main action to take because that is it counts as a free action so that's kind of how these cards work and so like i was mentioning on your turn you get one main action and as many free actions as you want and so there are a few different types of actions you can take on your turn we're going to briefly go over them the first thing that you can do is you can dig at a site now the board is divided into three main sections in terms of the dig sites there are the bottom dig sites here which have already been discovered they also have tent symbols on them and those are available for you to visit right from the get-go the other two sections of the board which are the middle section and the top section here are the level one and the level two dig sites these need to be discovered before you can visit them in order for you to visit any of these dig sites you must spend from your hand a card that has the type of symbol that is shown on the actual dig site so for the very bottom most ones here they're all going to be the shoe a boot a boot because it sort of symbolizes that you walk there these are all tents that you'd set up they're already there i'm walking there it's like your ship just has arrived and this is kind of the shore that you're already at i guess right yeah you haven't gone deeper into this uh this island yeah the level one dig sites are going to show either a car or a boat because like i was mentioning those are the modes of transportation you're taking to get there and the level two dig sites are much further away so they require two symbols of the type that's needed i also wanna mention that there is a travel symbol hierarchy it is this exactly this chart um and so you can literally spend any other symbol either a car a boat or an airplane in place of any of those shoes you can also spend an airplane symbol in place of either a boat or a car but you cannot interchange the boats and the car symbols because that doesn't make sense and then the plane symbol is the most universal of all because you can take a plane literally anywhere in addition you can always hire an airplane uh by spending two coins right so which also means that you can substitute those two coins to represent any of the symbols on the board exactly yeah so the first type of action is actually digging at an established dig site so if i were to spend a transportation a card maybe i spend my fear card in my hand that shows a shoe i would spend it place it in front of me and then i would actually be able to put one of my two explorers onto one of these dig sites so say i go here then i get to take the effect of the actual location so this is going to get me two compasses i take it from the supply and i put it in my supply before moving forward i also just want to mention that there are a few different types of resources in this game there is money which is used for buying items which is up here we have compasses which represent time and they are used for buying artifacts which is the other type of card in this game which is over here and both of these types of cards are used to kind of curate your deck in addition to that compasses are also useful for when you're trying to explore these new dig sites that we don't have access to yet that's right we also have tablets and tablets are going to be useful for progressing up this research track and also activating these artifact cards once they're already in your deck and and then addition we also have these blue arrowheads and red gems so these are all the different types of resources that you're going to be seeing also before you start your turn we actually only draw five of these cards i should have mentioned that earlier so you're going to start each round with five cards in your hand exactly and uh anything that gets played in front of you will get shuffled at the end of the round to put back at the bottom of your deck so there is no uh it's not like a standard deck builder where you kind of discard all your cards at the end of your turn redraw reshuffle it's all just one hand of cards for the entire round exactly yep so the next type of action is actually discovering a site all you do there is you choose one of these sites that you want to discover say i want to discover this one and keeping in mind you only have two of these people to use for the entire round so i had already spent one by digging at that site so let's say i want to discover this site right here that is going to cost me a boat symbol that i have to spend from my hand and in addition because i'm discovering a new site i have to pay the compass price for that type of site so the level ones are three compasses and the level twos are six and once i've paid my costs i then take the idol that's associated with that site i get its immediate benefit which we'll all go over once we start playing the game and then the idol will come face down onto my player board on top of these crates because it's going to give me three points at the end of the game and then i go ahead and i place one of the new dig sites onto the space and i get to take its benefit immediately so i don't know what i'm gonna get it's kind of like a mystery grab bag of resources um and so this specific dig site gives me one coin and one blue arrowhead which i would then take from the supply after resolving this effect i then awaken the guardian that's associated with this dig site because this is a you know a mysterious old island that has a lot of um monsters and protectors a lot of protectors they want to protect this island and so each dig site is going to come with a protector or guardian of sorts and again that's random this is not actually going to hurt me immediately if by the end of the round i have to take this person back from a site that has a guardian still on it then that is how you take these fear cards you take additional fear cards into your draw deck but if i want to overcome this guardian that is actually the next type of action as an action i can spend the combination of resources that is shown on the actual guardian and so in this example it wants me to spend two shoe symbols which are going to be cards from my hand and one compass and once i've spent that then i actually take this guardian into my supply because it's going to be worth five points to me at the end of the game each guardian also has a boon associated with it at the top right hand corner some of them are immediate effects like this tile is this tile says i can immediately exile one of the cards that i've played in front of me or in my hand to be out of the game so it's no longer clogging my deck some of them are going to be like a one-time use during the entire game but nonetheless whenever you spend it it just goes face down in front of you so that is overcoming a guardian you're not required to overcome them it's just that if you don't you're going to get a fear card it's a good way to get points it's a very good way points yeah before we continue to the next type of action i just want to mention that the level 2 dig sites have two different idols on them when you discover those dig sites you get to take both idols but you only get the benefit of the one that's face up the second one is just gonna be worth three points for you at the end of the game so by just taking that action and discovering it you get six points you get three for the face down you get the benefit of the face up plus three points when it goes into your crate face down exactly the other thing that idols are good for is on your actual player board at the very top hand corner here there is uh there are four slots for these idols and if you don't ever fill them then they're going to be worth whatever points is showing at the end of the game so that's a total of 10 points but on your turn as a free action you can actually place one of these idols in the leftmost slot to take one of the free actions that's listed on on the left side column of that of your player board so that's either turning in a coin for a red gem getting a blue arrowhead any other things listed there okay the next type of actions have to do with purchasing more cards to go into your deck now the game uh has two different types of cards there are item cards which are on the right side here and there are artifacts which are on the left side here and we're saying right side and left side of this staff right over here yes correct and so the way that the board evolves is as we progress further and further into the game these this moon staff is going to move down uh to the right here to show the different rounds that we're on and so what happens is when we get to the second round it's only going to be artifacts on the left side of the moon staff so as you progress further and further into the game you're going to have more artifacts and less items so that was that is a kind of a cool uh function of the moon staff there are a couple of differences between the items and the artifact cards one being that the items all cost coins and that that price is shown at the bottom of the card and the artifacts cost compasses the items when you purchase them they go directly to the bottom of your draw deck so you don't actually get the benefit immediately but it's there's a high likelihood that you'll be able to use it in the next round the items you get the benefit immediately however it comes to you spent in your play area so at the end of the round it's going to get shuffled along with all the other cards you just played exactly and in addition when it does come back up into your hand in order for you to play it to activate whatever the effect is in the middle you have to spend one of these tablets these resource tablets so that so it's a little bit harder for you to use it again but that is pretty much the the only true differences between the two because they all go into your draw deck to be you know kind of used in future rounds and i believe each of these cards all have some sort of victory points at the bottom yes the bottom right hand corner is the number of points they're worth at the end of the game and the symbol the top left hand corner are the transportation symbols that you can use for the various sites that multi-purpose card play that we're talking about exactly and for the cards we're going to go over what they all do as we play the game as well the next type of action has to do with actually playing these cards so if you have a card in your hand that is not a free action meaning it doesn't have a lightning bolt then it does take a whole action for you to play it so say for example i had this sea turtle in my hand i could play it as an action and this will allow me to draw a card from my deck and then place a an explorer assuming i still have one left with a discount of a boat symbol so this would be a nice way for me if i don't have a boat symbol if i don't want to spend any money on acquiring any more transportation symbols it's a nice way for me to put my person out here right for free essentially so that is how these cards uh play the last type of action has to do with the big elephant on the board which is this large research track over here not a literal elephant if you're looking for an effect there's not one there there's there's a bird but this is probably going to be one of the most difficult parts of the board to see in our playthrough because the symbols are all very small but we will do our best to try to talk you through how it works and so the purpose of this whole research track is uh it's supposed to symbolize us getting closer and closer to discovering this main temple and so each player has two of these tokens we have a journal and a magnifying glass the basic concept of how this works is you're going to be progressing up this track with both of your tokens one at a time and you're going to be paying whatever the cost is associated to go up the track to cross over into those boxed areas right so at the very bottom when you start the very bottom there are two different pathways you can take you can either spend a compass and a blue arrowhead to move into the leftmost spot or you could spend a red gem to move into the rightmost spot and then depending on where you went then that spot is going to be connected to one or two of the spots above it if i went up the red gem section i would then be able to progress into the next row by paying a tablet and a blue arrow but i would not be able to progress into the leftmost part of that row spending a red gem because i'm not attached to that part of the board it's a physically be the color has to match up if you see breaking lines then you're not allowed to go there right and so on the right hand side of the row it tells you how many points that specific piece is going to be worth at the end of the game depending on which row it's on so the first row is gonna be one point for my magnifying glass and zero points if i get my notebook there but it also tells you what immediate bonus you get just for getting to that row so once i progress to this first row here i get one gold coin if i progress to the second row i get a compass and so some of these rows also have these uh square bonus chips those bonuses are awarded to the very first player who gets there the other main rule to this track is your journal cannot progress further than your magnifying glass but the cool thing that the journal does is in the first two rows the journal helps you unlock assistance and that is the final piece of the puzzle to this game there are three rows of assistants that we have placed off the board here and they're in in three stacks of four the only ones available to you are the ones at the very top and what assistance that you do is they just give you they give you help you know once once per round they let you do a thing they might assist you yeah they assist you now you can have up to two of them because there are two spots here the first and second row that will allow you to take assistance assuming you get your journal to those rows but the other cool thing about them is once you get your journal to the third or fourth row you get to upgrade the assistant to its gold side because each assistant has two sides the silver side is fine but the gold side is even better and so if you had tap the assistant during that round and it was on its silver side when you go to upgrade it it gets upgraded to its gold side and it gets unspent so you can spend it again which is a really nice feature once you get to the very top of the track here then you get to take a spot which will give you lots of points at the end of the game 23 points max the first person if you're the first person you get to take one of these bonus tiles you actually get to look at all of them and take the one that you want and then now you have access to the temple itself and the temple is just a way for you to buy points basically returning resources points exactly there are a certain combination of resources at the very bottom of the temple and they tell you what resources you need to spend in order to take any of these tiles so for example this left most bottom tile here that's worth two points it's going to cost me one coin and two tablets the middle one costs the gem the the rightmost cost a compass and a blue arrow but if i want to take this middle row here say the left hand middle row which gives me six points then i need to spend everything that's below it i need to spend the coin the two tablets and the red gem yeah in that pyramid kind of fashion where you see these two kind of intersect that's that one right there yes so you are spending quite a bit of resources for points but by the time you get there it's like close to the end of the game and you don't get any points for leftover resources at the end anyway so you want to spend them and still going back to this to get to the very top again following that same thing is you have to spend all of these resources here to get that 11 pointer yes but that's it that is those are all the different types of actions you can take on your turn um like we were mentioning once you can no longer take actions or if you don't want to because you don't have to spend all the cards in your hand you can choose to uh to keep them from round to round then you just pass and you're out for the rest of the round once everybody passes then we do some cleanup you take your explorers back if any of them are taken back from a spot that has a guardian you take your fear card all of the cards that you play during the round get shuffled and placed at the bottom of your draw deck you refresh your assistance and then you actually exile these two cards the cards to the left and right of the moon staff they go away you move the moon staff down one and you replenish the the card row and uh pass the first player and you're ready to begin again five rounds the game ends at the end of the fifth round and then you go into final scoring and so at the end of the game you get points for wherever both of your tokens are on this research track you get points for any of these that you've collected which are those temple tokens you get points for your idols as well as your idol track at the very top here for any of the ones that you did not cover you get points for your guardians whether or not you've used the boon you get points for all of your item and artifact cards that you have still kept that you have not exiled right and then you lose points for all of the fear cards still left in your your deck in hand and whoever has the most points wins that's pretty much it yeah so let's do some setup we're gonna do some setup clean up a little bit and then we're gonna get started okay so we have reset the game we are ready to play uh we have to figure out who's going first so even in odds yeah okay i'll be evens okay okay one two three all right so it is you this is the first player marker this is a time total time token so first player gets two coins and the second player gets a coin in a compass compass no if that's all that great that's good but uh we will take it so shuffle our starting hand has the two coins two compasses and two favorite cards so and we draw five cards and now we are ready to begin with round one so just to kind of give you a general overview of what cards we have available here we have this this is our only artifact that's face up it's four compasses and it lets you do this trade action which we'll discuss later yeah and it gives you three coins whenever you use this this is an exile and and take two compasses kind of card the ostrich lets you draw a card from your deck and place an explorer with a discount of a car transportation symbol the journal allows you to exile this card to research with your journal token for free that's so that you would be losing that card to production yeah so one time it's it's basically allowing you to move your book uh research up so you'd have to be legally able to to do it yes right yeah it cannot surpass your compass the sea turtle allows you to draw a card from your deck and place it's exactly like the ostrich except except it gives you a discount of a boat oh that's that's really cute and then the revolver lets you turn in a compass in order to uh overcome a guardian without having to pay any of the the stuff that the guardian requires okay first move i'm going to be digging at a site so meaning i'm going to be digging at a site that's already discovered me i'm not going to go into these zones play a boot and i'm going to send one of my explorers out to this site right over here so that gives naveen two compasses two surfaces so these uh starting dig sites all the tents um areas they just give you some of the basic resources like one gives you two coins one gives you two compasses two tablets a blue arrowhead and this last space allows you to discard a card in order to take a red gem because those are the hardest uh of the resources to acquire so that's it that was your action are you taking any free actions uh i will not be taking a free action right no okay okay so for my action i'm going to do something similar i'm going to place my explorer out and dig at a site here and i'm going to place it right here oh i have to spend a boot to do that yes so here's my boot my fear card i move this over and so going there allows me to take a blue arrowhead so that's it for me back to you yeah and just a heads up uh in a two-player game some of these spots are covered up in higher player accounts there's more action spots but they do require a few more boots to go there so in this game in a two-player there's only one spot for each of us yes and those are actually the only changes to the two-player game also there's some benefits when you get your research to these areas here uh yeah and higher player counts uh there would be more tokens on these but in two-player not so much so i was mistaken those are the other changes yeah all right so go ahead back to you yeah so i'm gonna go ahead and i'm gonna discover a new tile a new site that's exciting uh so it's gonna be into this this uh area one so it's gonna cost me three compasses so i will spend one okay right here as a free action i'm gonna spend one two three all right okay and then you're gonna place and then i'm gonna place my last explorer guy onto this one which is gonna cost me a boat because that's what printed on here all right so let's do a boat let's do let's do this boat right here all right okay so so this is a multi-purpose car so i'm not using it for this center here i'm actually using it for the top left corner right see there so that's that and so now you take the idol i take the idol i get the benefit which is getting one of those compass compasses back it goes face down into my crates and then now we discover this site okay so this one right here it uh instantly it gives me a stone tablet and a blue arrow an arrowhead yep yep so this is a one of the level one dig sites and now that he's discovered it he must now say hello to his guardian so yes couldn't draw the top of the screen daddy who's probably going to cause me problems ooh i mean you're the baddie because the cardigan is just protecting the site an airplane wow it's beautiful so in order to overcome this guardian naveen must discard a an airplane and so as a reminder he can always spend two coins to satisfy that and he also must turn in a blue arrowhead which you just got i have the the resources necessary to do that i want to keep my money though for some of these cards and the boon for this guardian says that he will immediately get to exile one of his cards either one of the ones that he played face up or one of the ones in his hand so um if he does not overcome this guardian before the end of the round then he will be getting a fear card i mean fear cards are not horrible they're only minus one only minus one and they're useful so but they do clog up your hand they do are you finished uh yeah that's me okay i'm going to research with my compass so technically the compass and the journal are supposed to start at the bottom of this board here but because we removed that part of the board i'm going to take it from my airport and i'm gonna go up this way which is the left-hand side of the track it cost me a compass and an arrowhead to do that so those are my resources and my reward is one coin so at least now i'm on the research track board and that is the end of my turn now you have decisions now i have some decisions because you have this friendly guardian here this guy i know you want to go up the research track i do want to go up the research well yeah you got to find this temple here i know i just wish they didn't require an airplane which is two coins i know that was kind of that was kind of shocking i wasn't ready to see that either yeah because every round you start with five cards i'm looking at these these are these are nice cards out there they're beautiful cards and they're sausage so i'm going to i'm actually going to take my action and i'm going to buy a card so i'm going to spend this as the center action as a free action one two three what are you buying and i will buy so this goes this year oh yeah this is my spin yeah right there and i'm so that's three coins worth so i'm gonna buy either the ostrich or the sea turtle let's go ostrich interesting really you think so maybe or actually no i'm sorry i'll go sea turtle yeah ooh let's go sea turtle i mean i don't like it so because i buy this it cost me the three yep it's gonna go i don't get the benefit now yeah but it goes into the bottom of my deck immediately so i will get this card in the next round yes yeah it's nice buying cards in the first round because you know for sure you're gonna get it it's coming so this is gonna slide down and then we refill and now we have the dog so the dog it costs three coins but they give you a compass and it lets you activate an unoccupied tent site which that is a sweet card okay i'm going to place my second explorer there's no way that i'm going to get enough compasses this round to discover a site so i might as well place my explorer out here so i'm going to go ahead and place it in this first left-hand dig site which gives me uh two coins two coins okay yep yep your turn lots of money yeah usually i i like to explore it excite in the first round as well but it's hard doing that as a second player it is now i know your pain yeah okay so i'm gonna research i'm gonna do research yeah so i'm gonna spend these two right here so the compass and the arrowhead looks like you're going the same way that i did yeah well because i don't have a gem which is what's required there and i go here and it gives me a coin please yep all right so we are head to head here at the bottom bottom row left spot yes and now it's your turn okay so i'm going to buy the other nice card which is the ostrich so three coins nice and i'm going to take the ostrich it's going to similar to naveen's card it gets me it lets me draw a card from the deck which is nice in this game any any kind of deck building game you want to get the cards that allow you to draw more cards in your deck so that does that and it gives me a discount when i place out my person i'm putting it at the bottom of my draw deck okay now it's back to you so this all slides down oh yes sorry so slide those down and the new card is the binoculars it costs four coins and it lets you activate any level one dig site so that sounds like it's regardless of whether or not somebody's there or somebody's there or if you're there yeah because it's binoculars you're seeing it from afar and somehow you get the resources that are there yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna move this over here and as a free action there's a little lightning bolt there if you guys can't see so i'm gonna put that there it's gonna cover up one point so i'm not gonna get one victory point at the end of the game but i'm gonna take one of these benefits here and i'm gonna take the benefit that allows me to turn this in for a gym now this is a free action so i'm still going to take my main action and my main action is going to be to research no so i'm going to research past this little gem right here so it cost me that gem i just acquired so he's researching with his magnifying glass and it gets me a tablet that's what the benefit is because he's the first person to get to that spot which is now the second row left side and i get one compass one time there you go that is the right-sided benefit of that road good job you got there before me did you stinker i had to ah naveen love the research track he like wants to get told there's a bunch of points there first yeah i mean what's not to love about the research track right okay so for my turn i'm going to buy another card so i'm going to spend these two cards here as the free action of just getting the two coins nice and i'm going to spend this third coin to get the dog yeah because the dog is nice the dog will give me a compass and let me activate an unoccupied tenth site that's pretty sweet it's pretty good so it's like having a third explorer yeah at the bottom of my deck and i'll be able to utilize their services next round so now the new item card is the rope and the rope allows you to in addition to playing this card you must spend another card from your hand not getting its benefits and then it allows you to draw two more cards from your draw deck so it's like hey i have this fear card i don't want to use it i can play this card discard the fear card and draw it draw two better cards potentially so that is the beauty of curating your deck in this game so back to you all right i'll take this as free action it's just gonna be gain this so let's gain a compass and then i will pass so yeah take it and pass all right i don't think there's anything else i can do with it so well then uh what can i do i have both of my explorers out i don't think i can do anything so i'm gonna just play i'm gonna do the same thing i'm going to play my compass card down just so i can have some resources for next round and then i'm going to pass and so now now that we pass the round is over um any cards that you have left in your hand you can choose to keep them for the next round or you can play them in front of you in the same play area so that it gets discarded and shuffled um i think i'm going to do that i don't want to hold a fear card it's a fear card yeah in my hand okay so you're just discarding your hand i'm just cutting my hand and now we take back our explorers so because naveen is taking his explorer back from a guardian i have to take a fear which goes into my discard pile yes i believe into yeah into the played card so it's gonna get shuffled back in so now we shuffle our cards that we'd played that round and it's going to go to the bottom of our draw deck i don't know which combination all right these are three fear cards total okay and then if we had any assistance we would get to refresh them not yet but not yet oh yeah and so now we are going to exile the two cards that are to the left and right of the moon staff and move the move the moon staff down one because now we're entering the second round two yep and we get two artifact cards runes of the dead wow look at that thing let's see what they do the ruins of the dead costs four compasses but it gives you three tablets a gold coin and a fear card so it's got some good and bad here yeah which makes sense right thematically because it's scary to go there this one is ceremonial rattle this allows you when you uh have a tapped assistant you get to untap it right yeah unless you refresh it so that you can use it again during that round very nice all right and we passed the start player marker yep it's gonna be you and we now we're going to draw our five cards for round two three four five and we begin again i'm gonna play my my dog the one that i just acquired last round because uh this item card allows me to activate an unoccupied tent site and this is the best time to use it it's time to use it yeah so i'm gonna go ahead and do that so you gain a compass first oh yeah that's right thank you i gained a compass and i'm going to activate uh this tent site which lets me get a blue arrow and that's me very nice thank you okay i'll play that sea turtle uh that i had earlier so what it does is it allows me to draw a card yep and it allows me to place a um your explorer explorer with a discount of the boat so i'm gonna go right back to this site that i had discovered earlier so i get the benefits of what's there so i get a tablet and a arrowhead please yes that's right and then that is it so now i'm hanging out there oh why didn't i go there i thought you would so when you didn't i was like great i can't believe i didn't go there uh i'm going to for my action i'm going to play my fear card okay and place my explorer over here get some cash to get some coins i'm getting two coins and that's me well i'm going to buy a card and i'm going to buy a card with two coins that i have here so oh no yes yes i wanted that card that was the whole purpose of the box i'll take the rope it is going to go here to the bottom and again this is that card that um i play the card i discard a card out of my hand to draw two cards oh my god i needed it so badly i wanted that card all right okay and that's gonna come out that's nice this is the rough map and uh you pay a coin for it and it allows you to exile this card when you play it to gain three compasses in the moment but again that is one of those cards that goes away if you choose to use it for that okay well naveen so disappointed i know okay then i'm going to i'm going to research and i'm going to research with my book this time so that we can gain an assistant i do i think i'm thinking a money-making machine would be kind of nice because these are the three assistants that we have available one gives you either a coin or an airplane symbol which would have been nice for you one gives you two coins and one lets you do one of the trade actions and so the trade action allows you to either one time trade a tablet for a blue arrow or a blue arrow for a red gem right which is not bad but um well let's first do the action so i'm going to research by spending a compass and then a blue arrowhead and so that lets my journal move up on the left hand side here which gives me an assistant so i'm gonna go ahead and would you like i'm gonna take this assistant the money maker the money maker so he's going to um give me two coins and if i ever upgrade this person to the gold side then it gives me three coins per round so you can tap it right away yeah i'm gonna tap it right away to gain two coins and the reason she can tap it right away is there's a little lightning bolt back to me so what we just exposed is this one so it looks like you get a gold discount whenever you buy a gold discount or a compass discount cards i don't like the combination that you could potentially have there yep i like that combination that's not good okay i'm gonna spend a fear and move my explorer to get an arrowhead okay that's it yeah so you move into a dig site big site all right then yep okay i'm going to play my ostrich it's so cute it lets me draw a card from my draw deck and then i can place my explorer out with a discount of a car symbol so i'm going to discover a new dig site all right i'm going to go this way so this is that that car symbol that was free for me because of the ostrich but i do have to pay the three compasses so here's one and here are my two cards for the other two and um now i'm gonna take this idol which lets me exile a card i might as well exile my fear card because if i can't overcome this guardian then i'm just gonna get another fear card right back so i might as well net nothing yeah on that little token she took there's a there's a little red x on it yes it's probably hard to see but that is the universal symbol for vanish or exiling hard yep so now i get a level one dig site okay good luck ooh coin and two tablets get richer so here's my coin two tablets well and then now i get to meet the guardian oh a boot a tablet and an arrowhead i don't have an arrowhead oh and then the benefit of it is you get to immediately exile wow this is a really intense yeah look at that guy guardian i love it big one yeah all right well thank you well that's you that's that's it yeah that's it for me i'm gonna research and i'm going to research and get my book onto this spot right here so we're going onto the board crossing over um the compass and arrow so here's arrow and compass okay and so now as a benefit i get one of these assistants so i'm going to take this assistant that has an airplane on it because i'd like to be done with that right now i don't like that thing that's going on over there and i would take it and i won't be tapping it right away because you have to wait i have to wait for when you overcome the guardian okay i'm going to buy an item card so i have i have some money here i'm going to spend four of these coins to purchase uh the oh that's not bad that's not bad but you can't do it right right away until the next round but it's nice but instead i'm gonna buy the banana yes that's a really nice one the binocular binoculars will allow me to activate any of these level one dig sites and they're always really nice and you only have two explorers to go out so one of the other types of really useful cards there you go okay the new item is the trowel the tr troll trowel yeah so the troll costs one coin and it lets you convert a compass into a red gem really yep that's a nice one it is okay so i'm gonna do is i'm gonna overcome this guardian right over here so what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna tap this for its airplane symbol which is exactly what this needs and one arrowhead so i'm gonna have paid the cost this is going to go to me and i get to immediately it has that red x get rid of one of my cards that i don't want i will get rid of this fear card that's in play and i'll put it over there and if it's not apparent up here is the exile area so the fear cards get exiled in the middle the item cards here and the artifacts over there yep and this flips over and it'll be worth five points at the end of the game whether i use the front side or not right so well i guess i'll buy the 12 because it was nice so it's one coin yeah one coin one coin for this troll they're just going to let me spend a compass to get a red gem in the future but now my deck is getting bigger and bigger so exiling is probably what i want to start doing next item is are the sturdy boots and this lets you get a compass and play your explorer with a discount of two boots oh that's not hmm so that's more for a higher player count uh because all the two boot sections are covered up right it's still one of those then it's kind of a discount of a boot i guess and it also gives you two two uh cars assembled at the top left-hand corner well everything else is kind of not too good what i have here so i'm gonna take this as a free action i'll just collect a uh compass please okay here you go and i will then pass even though i have one card in my hand that's me all right what do i want to do here i am going to spend my idol as a free action to take a blue arrow head nice and then i'm actually going to overcome that guardian oh yeah do it so i'm going to play my last card which and i'm playing it for the symbol of the top left-hand corner because of that uh hierarchy of travel symbols this is a boat and that only required a boot which is the lowest yeah so i'm playing that it costs a tablet and then the blue arrow head that i just lost a point for not bad though but now i get this guardian and it has a an exile would you like to exile or you don't have to exile as we've discovered well i'm not going to exile just yet i think i will later it'll definitely be more useful um once i don't have the really good cards at the top of my door yeah yeah yeah so that's going to go there and so i've already passed you've already passed yep now back to me and i really don't have anything else to do so i'm gonna pass as well okay okay so now we take our explorers back it is the end of the second round nobody gets a fear card i'm gonna discard my my fear card that i had oh okay so that's the one card i had left over all right we're gonna shuffle our hand i'm just a little scared to exile cards that are not fear cards because i don't know it's nice to have that like extra compass or coin you know in your hand it is all right and then uh refresh your assistant okay my assistant comes back and then we're going to exile those two cards go out moon staff moves down so now we get this one come all the way in okay we have this one you want to read this out sure this is the monkey medallion it is an artifact that lets you gain an item card and place it on the top of your deck wow and for two points at the end of the game okay this is the war mask it costs three compasses and it gains you an arrowhead and you do not gain a fear card from any guardians to baddies uh this round so if you're left out there and you've played this card then you don't get that for your card nice bad that's worth one point oh and i get first player that's right yeah so we are now in the third round let's draw our hand at five three four five i'm going into the third round with one tablet yeah i have three tablets and some stuff so not looking good all right starting with you okay i'm going to i'm going to go visit that site that i had unlocked before by spending a boat okay and so my explorer's going to go out here no guardian comes because it's already been uh defeated and i get one tablet and a arrowhead there you go and it's overcome i'd like to think that we made friends with the guardians convinced them to go away you've convinced them you gave them stuff to earn their trust i think that's probably what it is actually all right so back to me i'm going to play my binoculars and this lets me activate any level one site it sounds like it's regardless of whether or not somebody's there so i'm going to activate the site that naveen is on currently so it's a tablet and a blue arrow solid solid okay all right well what i'm going to do is i'm going to be doing research and i'm going to research my red into this space right over here and so i have to pay a tablet and an arrowhead and this goes there and there and i get this and what it does is allows me to do a train so i'm going to trade one of these tablets in for an arrowhead ah it is so frustrating to play the research track with naveen and because i have gone here uh i get another um one of these guys out here yep yep you get your second one i get my second one so i will take this one that gives me discounts need it so you revealed this um this person that's nice who lets you exile the card they have a dog in their hand once per round you can exile a card with that that new assistant that's kind of nice okay so uh for my turn i'm going to play my fear card okay which gives me that shoe so that i can go to this dig site and get a blue arrowhead so that's me go back to you okay i'm gonna research again and i'm gonna research my magnifying glass up this way it's gonna cost me most of my resources here okay two and one two tablets and an arrowhead and then because i did that i get uh all right that's better i'm also gonna research i'm gonna research my magnifying glass because i can't do my journal yet yeah and so one arrowhead and a tablet to go up the right hand side which is going to get me a compass nice okay back to you so what i'm going to do is i'm going to tap this card to gain a coin that's a free action i can have a coin there you go and then i will then tap this card right here which is gonna get me a discount so i'm gonna buy i'm gonna buy this one right over here this is um it's gonna cost one but because i'm tapping this it cost me nothing so i maintain this and it says exile this card to gain three compass tokens so that's what it's called a rough map and it's gonna go right here at the bottom nice slides down so the next item card we have oops is the army knife so the army knife lets you choose two different options um either exile a card get a coin get a compass or a tablet choose two of the four things okay i'm going to tap my assistant which is a free action that gives me two gold coins and then i'm going to spend three coins total to purchase an item and i'm going to purchase this army knife oh nice because i like that so you get two of those four things yes they have to be they have to be different but it always gives me an option to exile the card which is cool so it's gonna go to the bottom of my deck that's nice and now our new item is the lantern the lantern lets you activate any of the the tent sites occupied or on occupied it says just any site yep cost three coins and it's worth two points at the end of the game so back to you back to me okay i'm gonna play my rope this is the one that allows me to discard a card so i'm gonna discard a fear card to draw two cards one and oh that's nice too yep that is a good card yeah okay i'm going to play my troll which lets me discard a compass to get a red gem okay i'm going to go ahead and uh dig a new site we're going to dig a new site okay so i'm gonna yeah i'm gonna spend these three one two three which side are you discovering going to the one level here uh i'm gonna just do these are identical uh benefits so i'll just do this one right here just to make it nice and clean so three compasses okay and then go ahead and place your guys gonna go there person that's gonna represent the automobile uh-huh there we go okay and then my benefit here is one coin so it's gonna go like that face down there you go and then hopefully i can gather some stuff good luck oh okay good job red gem i'll take it oh i will just like that i have to spend a compass to get mine okay but what does this guy want he's like right jam oh a boat and an arrowhead yeah but this guardian is going to give you a a car symbol to use in the future i don't see it well i guess there's a way to get an arrowhead oh my gosh i'm just in love with this artwork that's really cool yeah really cool really cool all right back to me yeah so i got that red why did i get it uh probably to move your book up yes that's that's right that's exactly right we're doing it we're researching i'm going to spend my red gem and well yes spending my red gem i'm researching with my book and that's going to get me my second assistant now i think i'm going to take the leftmost assistant this one which gives me a tablet right away once per once around as a reaction yeah i might as well take it now so i'm going to tap this assistant and get a tablet oh i see you have everything you need that's right back to you yes yes yes yes i hope you're almost done oh no not yet okay so i'm gonna do i'm gonna move this up for a free action and i'm gonna take an arrowhead all right so this is all the free action oh you're sacrificing two points there it's okay i just want i don't want the fear card here so then um and so now my main action is going to be to overcome this guardian that just showed up so it requires a boat symbol and a an arrowhead so actually we're not going to do that as the main action i'm going to do this one first i'm going to play my sea turtle okay and that's just going to allow me to grab a card the bottom of it is i get to place my explorer explorer with a discount of a ship but both my explorers are out it doesn't allow me to move that explorer right now there are different cards that say you can relocate an explorer so this is not one of them one of those definitely those are great i know so yeah so i'll hold off done okay i'm going to research and let's catch up to naveen here so i'm going to go up to this next row it's going to cost me two tablets and an arrowhead so my my magnifying glass is up there and it's going to get me a compass in return so we're exchanging resources and now now we're head to head to head so now i'm gonna go ahead and overcome this guardian and it's gonna cost me a boat symbol and uh an arrowhead which i have here so there's the boat symbol the arrowhead this guardian is going to come to me and i'll just leave it face up so now i have a one-time use car symbol very good and that was an extra five points for you that's fantastic as a free action i'm going to uh i'm going to spend my my person my boon i'm gonna use the boon of my guardian to exile the sphere card that i had played earlier so that's a free action and now that guardian is just gonna be hanging out there then for my action i'm going to play this card for its transportation symbol and i'm going to go to this level one dig site to get a coin and two tablets so one coin very good two tablets all right so you're out of cards i'm out of cards i have resources but i'm out of cards so all my explorers are out on the board uh i'm gonna be playing this funding card to take a coin and some free action so now i have three coins um i've already tapped this guy on the discount unfortunately i'll wait i'll wait till it refreshes so i can so i can buy something else okay that's it yeah uh back to me so that's that's me passing then cause your main action is passed even though i won card okay you're passing so you're done i'm done um i don't think i can really do anything unfortunately okay so then i pass okay i'm up sounds good that's the end that's it yeah okay so that is the end of the third round we are going to take our uh explorers back nobody gets a fear card we've been doing a decent job at overcoming guardians okay let's uh are you gonna keep the card in your hand no i'm going to discard it it's a fair card yep and then shuffle shuffle the cards and you're going to put it at the bottom of your deck okay and then re-tap your assistance yes please and then we're going to exile the revolver and the ceremonial ceremonial rattle i really wanted this i just could never afford it yeah so and now we're moving into the penultimate round wow this game is like it's really over before you know it yeah all right so we have the guardians ocarina which is an artifact that lets you return a placed um explorer to your board so each of your travel icons counts as uh airplanes this round oh wow that's nice it just costs a lot of uh compasses yeah it's expensive okay then this one that i drew was sundial it's um oh you got a choice immediately gain two tablets or pass to gain a red gem so that looks like it's like a good early yeah i feel like it's a little bit too late for that yeah i don't think i would want to pass because once you pass you're out of the round or you would play it when passing but it cost the tablet i don't know yeah that's a tough one yeah it's a tough one maybe um yeah when you acquire it you have to be ready to pass yeah exactly yeah yeah all right so then let's draw our hand and i believe i'm going to go first this is first two three four five okay so i am going first and i think what i'm going to do is i'm going to play my ostrich which lets me draw a card from the deck and and place my person out with a discount of a car symbol so i guess i'll go here yep to get a gym a gem and that's me okay so i'm gonna dig at a site and i'm gonna do this one over here okay so we need a boat a boat it is here so this will be a boat okay okay and so that's a tablet and an arrow there you go thank you you're welcome and then that is me yeah all right so now i'm going to i'm going to research so i'm going to research my magnifying glass up this way by spending a tablet and a red gem so i'm going to go this way and it's going to get me the one time first place bonus i guess of the compass and another compass right for being in that row so that's it okay so i'm going to do something very similar um i'm going to be researching up this track so it's going to be money um one of these tablets and then that arrow that i just acquired so okay there's money okay it's okay no problem and then i will slide up into here which gets me a coin nice and then also a compass as well very good thank you very good uh okay we're moving we are we're moving i'm gonna play my dog so the dog gets me a compass and let me activate an unoccupied tenth site so i'm going to activate this one that gets me two more compasses oh wow it's a compass party okay over here all right i'm going to research again uh i'm going to go up this track right here right into the dead center it's going to cost me a gold and a gem yep all right it gives me a compass moving up the ladder that's it it feels like we're panicking as if it's the last round like i feel like we're not far enough on this track this time around yeah i know what i mean yeah i do all right okay before i take my action i'm going to tap this to assist it it's going to give me two coins and um i might as well tap them both right sure i don't really know if there's a reason not to and then um i'm going to i'm going to research or i'm going to discover a new site and i really didn't want us to go through this entire gameplay without discovering one of the level two sites nice so we're gonna go for it uh i caused six compasses yes i'm gonna go up here so it's gonna cause six compasses so one two three that's what i've been saving up for four five six okay all of them four five six yep it's going to require two boats so here's my one boat and then i'm going to pay two coins for the second boat that's going to represent an airplane which is at the top of the hierarchy the travel hardware yes and so in return i get these two idols the only the topmost one or sorry only the one that's facing up is the benefit that i get to get immediately which is a compass and now they both go into the crates section and worth three points each and now we get a level two dig site all right these are juicier oh okay i get an arrow and a gem that's nice not bad and a guardian and a guardian who wants three tablets wow i need another tablet uh-oh that's okay i have these i'll be able to overcome the guardian if i really really feel they really really want to okay so all right that's me well i'm gonna play this card it's exile this card it's a rough map to gain three uh compasses yep so i'm gonna exile it it's gonna lead me so it goes here yep and i gain three compasses and that's my turn there you go play card okay uh huh i'm going to research so i'm going to go up with my magnifying glass up to where naveen is here it's going to cost a coin and a red gem so there's that and in return i get a compass so we're climbing we're panicking but we're climbing all right i'll join you on this expedition of going into that second tier over there you're going to do another you're going to do another level yes okay so i love these i'm going to do this one over here so it's going to cost me six total so it's going to be five compositions or five compasses plus one more which will be uh this one the boat one perfect okay so let's see it goes to your swipe your space and then so now it requires me to have two of these uh motorcycle symbols or car symbols motorcycles on the island oh yeah i mean if their cars on the island why not you think they brought these aren't motorcycles though these these look like they have four wheels flipping that over one and then this will represent two okay so you've made it uh you have to put your person there though well oh let me think about this so that's gonna go here i'm actually gonna tap this one oh okay because the assistant gives him a uh an airplane symbol yeah i'll do that and then um you get the idols i get the idol so one is going to be a tablet there you go the one that goes there this one's face down getting me a tablet and then hopefully something really lucrative two tablets and a gem so good there you go i'll take it well i hope your guardian is horrible uh i hope they just require tablets you get the guardian that that wants money there's a guardian that's like pay me four coins and we're good no it wants a little bit of everything it's a compass a coin and an arrowhead wow look at that it wants just a little bit of everything okay okay so i'm gonna play my travel card and that lets me spend a compass to take a red turn okay okay i'm gonna do research and i'm gonna research up this way and it's gonna cost me the gem and one of my explorations right there and that gets me this and this allows me to upgrade uh or to trade one of these in so i'm gonna trade this in for an arrow okay and then you can draw a card that is what the magnifying glass benefit of that row get the draw card hopefully it's something i can use oh great naveen always beating me to those benefits i'm going to go and do that because i want to draw a card so here's my gem and here's my compass and i don't get the benefit that naveen um got which is fine but i get to draw a card yes so ah uh i'm gonna do it again it's good i'm just gonna move up right into here and that's going to cost me gold tablet and arrow well yes let's do it even though that's what these guys needed over here you get a compass i do get a cup you are almost to the end almost almost i'm gonna play my binoculars which is going to let me activate any level one dig site so i'm gonna activate this one which is two tablets and a coin that's a nice card man yeah that was nice that is a very nice card if i put up here that's losing three points it's a lot of points a lot of points you would be zero summing that idol but i mean you're get you would be gaining a benefit of sorts okay i'm gonna i'm gonna do it i'm gonna take this as a free action and i'm gonna take the uh arrow okay um and then now is the main action i'm gonna um you know guardian yeah exactly so it's one two and then that arrow right there nice all the things needed now you can you befriended the guardian and uh as a one-time use you can use its boon which is the what is it a boat a boat yeah a boat symbol yeah and you won't get a fear card right i won't get a haircut yeah that's good okay i'm gonna spend these three tablets to overcome my guardians now we have become friends and the boon is an airplane symbol so it's a huge owl that's why it flies you i just realized wow oh my gosh that's beautiful back to you uh well okay i'm gonna i'm gonna spend this to gain a coin so i'll take a coin please okay there you go yep and then um gosh i never used this guy right here so i'll i'll just use it yeah so this is all that was the free action and then i'm gonna tap this to use it to buy something at a discount of one so i'm just gonna buy this one for free okay it still points at the end of the game points at the end of the game so that's the sturdy boots it gives you a compass a compass when i play it and then also it allows me to put out um with a discount of boots okay the newest item card is the brush and this lets you gain a compass for each idol you have up to three okay i'm going to research with my magnifying glass so a coin a tablet and the blue arrowhead okay so i'm gonna go up here and it's going to give me a compass so that's me pass you're passing you're done yes that's it that's it pass unfortunately really okay then i'm going to play my army knife which lets me choose two different options and i think gosh i think i'm gonna take a compass compasses are always so hard to get okay and i'm gonna exile a card what's up so i'm gonna exile my funding card wow just get it out which let's it just gets me a coin and money is not worth as much um at the end of the game and then for my last card i'm just going to play this exploration i'm sure there was something better i could have done but i was a little bit tired of min maxing this turn yeah well i've already passed so i pass okay i'm done so then we take these back uh no penalties and then we are going to do you have any cards left in your hand are you going to keep it new oh card well then shuffle your cards and put them to the bottom of your draw deck we are entering the final round so a lot of work has been done here to get up to this point see what happens untap your assistance and then we're going to exile the lantern and the monkeys medallion this goes down to the fifth and final round the moon has come to a shown itself full moon i think and so that will be the end the ornate hammer is the next artifact this lets you exile the right most item card which is just that one and gain any item from exile to the bottom of your deck interesting also another one that's probably not as useful yeah anymore uh crystal earring it's draw up to three cards and keep one you may return one of them to the top of your deck and then discard the rest oh so hmm that seems like oh there would have been yeah maybe a little bit because you put them at the top of the deck you've got to build a drum yeah yeah unless you have something unless you draw an additional card all right so let's draw our five cards and you are going to go first for the final round two three four five what an honor gosh what cards are in here no i didn't know okay i'm gonna play this card the sea turtle it allows me to draw a card okay and then it says i can place out one of my explorers with a discount of a ship so i'm gonna place out one ship discount and then flip over this tile which is another ship discount and i'm gonna get this one right out over here it's kind of a gem and a an arrowhead arrowhead yeah there you go that's my turn i see what you're doing here what you know nothing okay uh i'm going to tap my assistant which gives me two coins and then uh i'm going to i'm going to spend my idol as a free action which lets me turn in a coin for a gem and then i'm going to do the final research so i'm taking this spot got points it's gonna cost me a gold coin a compass and that red gem oops we did it we've reached the temple finally okay so because i reached the end i get to take the stack of bonus tokens here and i get to choose the one that i want and so i'm gonna leave that one there for you and so this one gets me a compass so okay just a compass as my bonus and now that i've reached the end i have access to the temple which allows me to just spend a you know a certain combination of resources to get those those stuff yeah yeah all right i'm gonna go dig again okay i'm gonna dig with sturdy boots this is actually i'm gonna dig for the top left it's gonna be two vehicles that's two vehicles over there nice so my last guy's gonna go over here and i get two tablets and a gem there you go so now i have no more people to work with wow you went to the the sweet spots i did you really did i did okay i'm gonna play the my dog my trusted companion and my dog gets me a compass and lets me activate an unoccupied tent site so i'm going to do the two cups oh you're going to try to get another one of these i would like to nice i think that would be awesome that would be awesome if we could open another uh dig site sure and meet the guardian well i'm gonna play my rope right here so this allows me to discard a card i'm gonna discard a fear card to draw two cards oh that rope is so good one and two something okay you know what i just realized that i moved your compass instead of mine i'm blue i'm okay with that all right uh so back to me yeah okay i am going to go and unlock another level two dig site sure so it is it's six points so i guess it's still good that's not bad so it's gonna cost me um all six of these compasses that i saved up six and i'm gonna put my person out right here so it's going to cost two uh car symbols my first symbol is gonna be the boon from this owl and my second car symbol is this one my funding card and so now i get to take these two idols the actual benefit of the idol lets me do that trade action where i can i can trade a tablet to an arrow or an arrow to a gem which i don't have any of them so i'm just going to not do it and go face down to see what you get and i get a little bit of everything stuff okay i get a coin a compass a tablet and a blue arrowhead yeah it's not bad so that's not bad and now i get to meet my guardian so let's see who wants a jeep and a arrowhead okay yeah i mean you have an arrowhead that's true and it's going to give me the boon looks like a boat a boat so i'd be able to go to a boat with that person so that's not bad done yeah okay i think i'm gonna do this research right over here so it's gonna cost me coin exploration or not exploration the compass and a gym okay so compass coin gem i'm in here now let's see what you left me okay you left me this an exile card so it's in exile so i will exile nice you get to exile your fear card my fear card out of my hand i didn't keep it i don't have any more ear cards in my deck so yeah at that point it wasn't really useful anymore uh all right i am going to overcome that guardian which one the iguana iguana yes the only guardian really that's that's still there okay it's gonna cost a car symbol so i'm gonna spend that for the car symbol and a blue arrowhead okay anyway we gotta spend it so now i'm gonna take the guardian and it's boone is that that boat symbol so anyway we're friends i'm gonna tap this right now as a free action okay for a coin for coin and then i'm actually going to gain two more coins so okay so three total are you gonna spend it for something i am gonna spend it for something so i have these three coins but i have this guy that gets me a discount so i'm going to buy this artifact here it's not i'm not going to get these benefits because it's going to go to the top of my deck here but it's worth three points at the end of the game nice i'll take it i mean that's gonna go to the bottom of your desk sorry the bottom of my deck yeah and so i tap it so instead of paying three i pay two retaining one coin nice okay so next item is the watch immediately gain two coins or you can pass to gain to be good okay i'm going to place out my second person and um in order to do this i'm going to spend my boon here yeah that means the boat symbol to go here are you digging there yeah digging right here it's better than going here that's true one more thing i got a tablet and an arrowhead i've been min-maxing a lot here and this is gonna net me one extra point if if i don't if i do it then if i don't do it so okay i'm gonna go here ah i'm covering it all up but i'm gonna take a coin and a uh oh my gosh oh i know you're not gonna get wait a second okay wait a second i'm not gonna get what four points yeah but check out this move since i'm here i'm gonna be able to get this 11 right there all right two tablets coin red gem compass and arrow nice all of it and i have a feeling you're gonna be able to do the same thing so i mean it gets me one extra point if you can do it again then you won't i won't be able to do it yeah i'm not going to be able to do it look at that i'm decimated here but i'll take it well you know what an accomplishment i've been thinking about for so long and now that you did that and you sacrificed uh everything you sacrificed that that last idol space i feel like i have the freedom to do this i'm gonna draw another card i really want to know what this next card would i hope it's something like a base card because my ostrich is somewhere in there that lets me draw another card on top of that so i'm hoping it's a bad card yeah good luck i'm gonna do it i'm sacrificing 3.3 points if this costs me the game then i deserve that loss so i'm putting my idol up here one of the three idol actions is to just draw a card from the top of your deck what is it is it your ostrich it is but i don't have my i don't have another uh researcher so i guess that so this is that's your free action so now you get your main action that is my free action so okay i'm gonna play the ostrich the one you drew huh yeah i didn't oh hold on yeah i'm gonna play it she drew it i didn't get to do the discount of a of a car thing i don't know why i wanted that ostrich so bad all it does is it lets me draw another card it just yeah because if you just drew yeah a card i should have done that before i put out my explorer yeah that is the order of operations so let's see anything fantastic this deck built way better than i've deck built i've done some deck building that is true are you passing because now it's your turn no it's my turn yeah i have a coin i'm gonna go buy that one point nice i'm just gonna go buy a point the watch so it goes in your deck yeah it goes into my deck at the bottom i don't get the benefit but i'll take it this is a steamboat that costs three coins but gives you two compasses which is going to be not useful but it is also three points more expensive than yours okay so i'm gonna play my binoculars which lets me activate any uh level one site which i'm of course i'm gonna activate this one because it gets me that gem that i need and that's back to you yes you're passing you're out for the count that's your game i pass well okay i'm going to play my army knife which lets me choose two different options i can exile get a coin a compass or a tablet so i'm gonna get a compass and a i don't know now it doesn't really matter what i get that's a good problem i think i'll just get a coin and then um i'm gonna play my troll which lets me turn a compass into a red gem and then now i'm actually going to purchase these two instead of that one so this is going to cost me a coin and two tablets as well as a red gem nice and she's playing the game that's the six pointer and then this one costs a red gem a compass and an arrowhead now she's doing this all because i've passed so she just burned through a bunch of turns in a row yeah yeah that's true i could try to see what this last card is you should no because then yeah you should make it exciting no no we're gonna leave it at that come on i'm just gonna say take away four points i'm done but we'll see what the last card is though at the end because now i have to know you have to know all right that is the end of the that's actually the end of the game that is yeah um the only thing that really matters is what you're saying i'm passing the only thing that really matters now is taking back your explorers and if you have a guardian in front of you then you get a fear card but nope neither of us do so we're just going to go into end game scoring sure so let's pick up our cards oh so now that the game is over i'm going to see what this last card is ah it would have just been another compass that would have been such a waste twice okay minus all right so take back the cards and we are going to do some accounting i'm gonna get the score sheet and a pen one second okay so we have our score sheet acquired and we're going to get started with tallying points first thing is you get points depending on where your your um what is this called your magnifying glass and your journal are on this research track so ravine yeah me for i got 21 and then one right here so 22. so 22 and uh mine is 23 plus 1 so 24. you also now get points for the tiles the temple tiles that you purchased 11. so 11 for naveen i have two sixes that's 12. um your idols you get points for all of your idols and then any of the uh idols you know the parts at the top that are still showing you get points for uh 12 i cover them all up got me one extra point okay so i have one two three four five says fifteen plus four is nineteen uh and your guardians so how many i have three of them for fifteen okay me too i have three for fifteen uh you get points for the cards all of the cards that you purchase so that's obviously you don't get any points for the starting cards five points i get seven points nice thank you yeah one category i i outscored you um do you have any fear cards i don't have anymore i also outscore you in that i have one beer card minus one minus one okay all right so we're gonna do some math uh one second all right so uh calculations have been done uh the final scores are naveen with 66 and monique with 75. that is it very nice we have explored arnok we've made some friends along the way in the form of these extremely large guardian beings but that's it we did it good job yay okay we just finished our two-player playthrough of loss from enzo arnak the lost ruins that's right um this was a very highly anticipated one for us so we're glad we got to play it and showcase it and what do you think it's this game is fun yeah this is a it feels unique um i don't really know any other games that play like this so it's interesting there are a lot of a lot of things to say about it i think so let's start with uh theme you are exploring you know that is the if you if you put the theme in one word it's an exploration game i think yeah right yeah it's uh the mechanisms with the theme yeah like they kind of make sense um it's not like overly thematic but um you know you're good but it's still like rich it's still rich yeah and it's in what it's trying to even like the rule book there it has like journal entries in the rule book it's trying to incorporate that rich it's trying as a euro it's it's making an attempt yeah but it's definitely a yeah sure so with that being said you know i i can always appreciate the subtleties of theme in euro games like i'm not expecting it to be overly thematic um but i think it does a good job with putting you kind of in that world you know so for me the theme of an exploration game that kind of genre so i'm thinking like you know um there are games like takal or um karuba and all very fine games but just that that like with the explorer hat and you're going in the wilderness with all the green trees that that kind of look never has never really appealed to me no really not too much but i will say that it is an excellent theme for intertwining mechanics right yeah anytime it's like an explorer type game you know that you're going to be discovering things you're going to be able to take resources and then manage them it always kind of lends to the application of those types of mechanics which i think is cool but i think they did a great job um applying this theme they did in terms of components the components are great the board is huge i'm not really on board with the vertical board there are a few games that have done that like pretty porter i'm still very much so i don't know if i'm old fashioned but i'm still very much so unlike the width yeah more yeah exactly lateral kind of thing yeah yeah just because of when you play you know four people around you don't want that person to be all the way on that end right who has to be like hey can you can you move my piece over there yeah the suggested uh kind of suggested arrangement is that you play you play with the game sideways and everybody has a sideways view which is fine it's just uh i don't know i just like the sideways boards better sure otherwise the illustrations are amazing yeah the art is very nice yeah very very nice especially the guardians like the guardians everything these these um dig sites i mean they're so small you have to pick it up and like put it to your face to like look at it and really really appreciate it yeah but it's so detailed and it's beautiful like every single one of these could be a print yeah this one you put on your wall so they did a really great job even the the illustration of the actual board it's beautiful it's very very bright and it's vibrant it's so full of color so i'm really really happy with the production value of the game yeah like with those sections of the board you know you can see that the illustration shows the water on that right-hand side and so those are the areas where you need the boats and then on the left-hand side it's it's the land so that's where you need the vehicles um it's really really nice in terms of player count and replayability this board does have an opposite side to it which is harder the research track is a little bit different that's called like the snake temple so i think it's cool that that is an option you know they didn't have to provide that as an option right but they did and so that definitely adds a little bit of a layer to that replay ability the game also comes with a solo mode and also just in the way that the car we're going to go into this a little bit more in mechanics but the way that the cards come out like the artifact cards and the item cards it completely determines what's gonna happen yeah yeah this was actually a lower scoring game for us yeah based off kind of the cards that came out right and you're gonna play this game from game to game and you're going to see your scores kind of fluctuate by a lot it's very tempting to think like oh i only scored that much this game i didn't do as well but i don't think that's necessarily true i think it really really does depend on which assistants um where were hired during the game and which cards were purchased or which cards were made available so yeah big time replayability i think in terms of player count now this game plays well at two yeah not bad it plays not bad at two i would say that it's probably better at three or four three or four probably i would imagine just because more dig sites are going to be made available because clearly people you're going to have more people around the table who are able to discover these big sets exactly yeah and so like i had a card that lets me activate any level one big site and so if if all of them were discovered it's a whole menu exactly there's a whole menu of options for me to choose from rather than the three level ones that we discovered yeah i'm actually pretty proud that we were able to discover three of those those are expensive six compasses that's expensive so um just in that alone makes a higher player count probably more interesting the race up the research track which was very frustrating for me against naveen is probably a little bit more cutthroat as well right higher player accounts and you also have more bonuses to go for that's right yeah along the way there's more bonuses available you will also have use for the two the two boot spaces and also which is a big thing for me in terms of the two-player game the artifact and item cards will cycle quite a bit more because if you have more people purchasing these cards you're gonna see a lot more of them and i think that for me that is probably the main reason why i would probably prefer a higher player count totally yeah because those cards really what they dictate the way of the flow of the game yeah because that is the deck building part of the game and so you're curating your hand you're exiling cards to make later rounds um sweeter better or more efficient or combo better with the assistance that you took and so just being able to see more of those cards like this is the entire item card deck that we didn't see at all right because the uh the other ones the articles yeah that's the artifacts because in a two-player game you're it's either what we purchase or the two cards they get excellent at the end of the round yeah kicked out so i feel like maybe in a two-player game more cards should be getting exiled but yeah i don't know so that's just but but it still plays fine like it's still very very enjoyable at two one thing i will say about the two-player game is it does feel a little unfair to the second player yeah the turn order so yeah in the first round you only get a compass instead of another piece of gold which is kind of strange to me yeah so he means uh when you start the game whoever whoever is first in turn order gets two gold and whoever is second in turn order gets a compass and gold right which in a two-player game is kind of questionable because now whoever goes first gets to go first three times during the game whereas the second player only gets to go first twice and uh then we always do this kind of opening move where the first player will will go to the dig site to get two companies get two compasses to go then discover one of those new uh lands yeah so not a huge deal we just think that it's interesting that it's kind of a detriment yeah i think it should have been like uh maybe one extra resource like another coin or another compass for that second player something like that yeah something like that yeah and in terms of just the mechanics so what are you what are your thoughts it's this the game is like a hodgepodge a mechanic so i'm not a fan of deck builders traditional true deck builders uh so i like the way this one functions also just like in the other any other game that basically takes the idea of deck building and improves upon the whole just getting in curating the hand and discarding down um this is really really cool because you can't truly count on certain cards coming back to you you have to find a way to exile them by taking certain bonuses or going to those dig sites and actually getting the ability to um get rid of like the work the lesser cards i guess um so i like the fact that it's not a pure deck builder there is still the worker placement and then of course the resource management in this game when i heard that it's a deck building euro worker placement i was like how the heck are they gonna how's that gonna all come together right but the mechanism of just tucking the cards that you use at the bottom and no matter what you will get these cards at the top from round to round i really really do like that yeah the deck building part of the game i okay i really love deck builders so for me uh this type of deck builder felt unique and fresh but also more limiting because i'm used to the deck builders where each turn you have a new hand of five you play them all and then you reshuffle them or you leave them in your discard and then you get a new hand of five in this game you have a hand to five for the entire round and i'm trying to like divvy what i do with them like oh i get i have this compass as a free action but do i want to spend it for its transportation cost or do i want to you know what it means there's a lot of like interesting decision making especially knowing that i can purchase an item card and maybe never see it yeah or only see it one more time in the entire game i can't you can't rely on these cards it's a big thing yeah it's more hand management than it is deck building i think it's more resource management than yeah anything else sure yeah in my opinion i think the root of this game is it is a resource management game because literally everything that you do requires resources everything that you do requires resources and everything that you that you earn is just different combinations you you discover dig sites and what do they do they just give you different combinations of the same resources so that you can then use those resources to go up the track up the track or to dispel the guardians yeah to overcome guardians it's just a whole ton of managing those five different resources i suppose combination yeah even by the time you get to the temple you're counting out okay how many of these resources do i need to get the 11 points right yeah and then two of those resources are used to get the different cards that are part of the deck building or the hand management either coins for the uh the items or the compasses for the artifacts so yeah it's just a big big resource circle yeah that incorporates some worker placement and some deck building right um and because of that there's a lot of min maxing because i feel like that that happens in resource management games because it's like well i can get that combination of resources to then spend to get that one more point like you kind of did it i think you did it also instead of getting the 11 you went for 12. exactly yeah i feel like everybody's gonna do it in the last round like in the last round you're like well that's gonna get me one more point than i already have even if i have to sacrifice my idol right to get just that's what i did yeah i i sacrificed four to get 11 instead of to get uh to keep it and then get only i think six yeah that's really been it had been a 10-point swing versus an 11 point so it was worth it for me to get that one extra point yes and also because of that it can cause some ap sure because you're sitting here thinking like i have these compasses do i want to save the compasses to discover a site or do i want to buy this artifact card that lets me use the benefit immediately and if i can do that it's going to get me this resource and you're going to chain all these things you're trying to think of all these like combo ladders almost right i would imagine in a four-player game when only one meeple or one explorer can go to a site and you still have to wait three turns and you're like if i could get to that site that would be really helpful and then the person who's right before you goes and takes it and you're like okay now i have to reassess yeah yeah you know so that could add to some of the game length for sure that's true i really like how the the cards work there are two different types of cards the artifact cards will let you take the benefit immediately but if you want to use it again it's going to cost you a tablet so now you're thinking well i need to find a way to get a tablet if that comes up again later and by buying those artifact cards it costs you the compasses which are very very important and very expensive to go to that second tier which got six so if you're spending four to pick up one card it better be a really good card right because now you no longer have those compasses to discover a level two site which are really lucrative uh and the item cards you buy them but they don't you don't they don't get you the benefits immediately it's until the next round yeah and so i think it's really cool how the moon the moon uh track kind of waxes or wayne's i'm not sure which ones it just moves to the right and so as you progress throughout the game you're gonna have less and less item cards um available for you to purchase which makes sense because at the very very end of the game at the last round you're not going to be able to use it at all all of the artifact cards that the whole row is filled with you can use immediately when you purchase so i really really like that dynamic i remember reading the rule book and reading how the the moon uh token the moon staff moved and unlocked more artifact cards i thought that was really cool really cool yeah now yes it uh we did mention that it's partially worker placement you have two workers so it's two placements per round i really want to move a third one yeah it's incredibly limiting but at the same time i think that's by design and because of that i feel like the cards that are most valuable are the ones that allow you to relocate your people and the ones that allow you to draw more cards from your deck so you're constantly kind of looking for those and also kind of on that note there is a lot of luck in this game but i think the luck is part of the fun like usually when you think of luck you you don't really like that in within the frame work of a euro game sure yeah but i think that that is part of the appeal and part of the fun in this game because when i say luck it's more like you're going to unlock a dig site but you don't know what big site you're going to get right you know the possibilities of what it can give you because there are only so many resources that are that are available you don't know what guardian is gonna then go on top of it so you cannot prepare yourself for the guardian that you're gonna need to overcome yeah and you can't rely on the dig site to give you the resources that you know you need to go off the research track totally um you also don't know which cards are gonna come out so you cannot plan you know usually in euro games you can get the assistant that's going to help you um combo with the cards that you're going to be able to to get but because you don't know which cards are coming out you can't plan for that either so a lot of it is really just thinking on the fly and trying to create your strategy as the game progresses and i think that that is part of it's big part of the fun yeah that kind of goes to the replayability of it because then you're you're constantly trying to re-strategize because you can't predict what's going to happen exactly yeah yeah so anyway uh that is last runes of arnock it's you know like naveen is mentioning this is a highly anticipated game it is not heavy yeah it's a nice little weight yeah it does it's medium medium light medium light this is you can play this with families like it's it's fun it fits a really really good weight and it has really interesting mechanics kind of tying in together i don't know i think it's i think they did a really good job with this i i anticipate people are really really really loving this title uh final thoughts yeah i like it a lot um i i want to play it with a higher player account i do want to see what that's like well anyway that's lost ruins of arnock we hope you enjoyed the video if you'd like to see more videos like this please consider subscribing thank you bye [Music] you

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Length: 87min 44sec (5264 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 08 2020