Archeology of Egypt: The new Expedition

No. of Player：2 - 5
Age：10+
Playing Time：20 mins
Version: Chinese ( traditional Chinese )

Designed by Phil Walker-Harding, an Australian designer who specializes in German-style family games, the early simple and interesting mechanism has a more exciting sense of risk assessment than his classic works "Bear Park" and "Cocoa" ! In the game, players take turns to uncover cultural relics from excavation sites and exchange the cultural relics at the right time to sell them to the museum. The more complete sets of artifacts you sell, the higher your score. In addition, there are special abilities of thieves and sandstorms that will affect the game. This version is an enhanced version of the original "Egyptian Archeology", with updated tent cards and 6 types of ruins, making the game full of changes and more strategies!

In Archeology: The New Expedition , you want to find treasures and make the most money possible by selling them to the museum. Players start with four treasure cards in hand; one monument tile is chosen at random, then the chambers of the monument are loaded secretly with treasure cards.

On a turn, a player digs for treasure by drawing from the deck. If they find treasure, they don't show anyone and keep it; if they find a thief, they steal a card at random from an opponent; and if they find a sandstorm, all players lose half of their cards in hand to the marketplace, which starts the game with five face-up cards. (Each player has a tent that they can discard to avoid the effects of one sandstorm.) After digging, a player can:

• Discard one or more maps to explore one chamber of the monument, looking at all the cards there and keeping some number of them.

• Trade at the marketplace by laying down one or more treasure cards and picking up cards with equal or lesser trading value.

• Sell ​​to the museum by placing sets of treasure cards in front of them; in general, the more cards you have of a type, the more the set is worth.

Players can explore only once, but they can do the other actions repeatedly, and they can take these actions in any order. Once the deck is empty, players keep taking actions until they all pass in turn, after which they sell treasures to the museum . Whoever ends up with the most money wins!

According to the designer, Archeology: The New Expedition differs from Archeology: The Card Game through the inclusion of tent cards, the addition of new treasure types and additional cards to allow for five players, the adjustment of some treasure values, and the inclusion of six monuments instead of one to have more variety when exploring.

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