2025 · Ancient
Ruins
Players excavate ancient ruins and collect treasure by crafting powerful card combinations. On each turn, a player upgrades a card and plays a card; upgrades stack and can turn cards into wild, game-altering pieces that count as multiple values. Each player may claim two special cards for the whole game to incorporate into their strategy. The round structure rewards racing to shed all cards and score based on the combinations constructed.
- Players
- 2–5 best 4
- Playing time
- 40 min
- Age
- 13+
- Complexity
- 2.2 / 5
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Full stats in Ludoya- 51
- Plays logged
- 115
- Players
- 49m 44s
- Average play
- 30
- In collections
- 11
- On wishlists
- 1
- Pre-ordered
7.3/10
from 9 Ludoya reviews
Last played: 2025-06
Played it 3 times
Casey O'Dell7.0 This is so much better at 4+ players. At 2, it went too fast without much tension. At 4, the cards really started to build up.
Played it 4 times
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