Lost Cities
Currently my Minimal Travel Table Top Game Collection 3 contains these cards for playing this.
This is a 2-player game.
Cards
This game uses cards numbered 2–10 for 5 different colors + 3 un-numbered color cards for each:
In MTTTGC 3, pick cards (these are all teal-indexed):- 2-10 + 81-83 (red)
- 17-25 + 76-78 (blue)
- 32-40 + 84-86 (green)
- 47-55 + 87-89 (orange)
- 62-70 + 90-92 (purple)
Play with top-right corner colors and numbers. Un-numbered cards are Investment cards.
Setup
Shuffle all cards together and deal 8 cards to each players. Set the rest of the deck in the center.
Gameplay
Last person to have been to an adventure or expedition starts.
On each turn, player may either
- Play a card
- or Discard a card
Playing a card
To play a card, player may place it into an expedition of the same color. Expedition can be started with any number but must then continue in ascending order. The numbers don't need to be consecutive.
Investment cards (the ones without numbers) are lowest and must be played first. Up to 3 Investment cards can be played per expedition.
Discarding a card
If player doesn't want to play a card, they must discard one. To discard, place a card from your hand face up to the discard pile of that color. (Between players' expeditions)
Drawing a card
At the end of turn, player must draw a card. You can draw a card either from the deck or take the top card of any discard pile.
Game end
The game ends immediately when the last card of the deck is drawn. No more cards can be played after that.
After game ends, calculate the scores. If you play multiple games, player with the cumulative largest score starts the next one.
Scoring
Base value
For each color, sum up the numbers that have been played and subtract 20. If no cards of a color has been played, the value is 0 (no -20).
Investment multiplier
Multiple that value for each investment card played (1 card = x2, 2 cards = x3, 3 cards = x4). Even the negative score gets multiplied!
Expedition bonus
If for any color, a player has played 8 or more cards, they receive +20 points (after the multiplier).