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Clank! Catacombs

叮当!地下墓穴

Build a deck as you loot a dungeon. The more noise you make, the likelier the dragon bites you.

  • 2–4 players
  • about 60 min
  • Some thinking
  • Strategy
  • Cards
  • Adventure
  • Fantasy

The goal

Escape the catacombs alive with an artifact and the most treasure points.

How it plays

  1. 1Everyone starts with the same 10 cards. Each turn play all 5 cards in your hand: Skill buys new cards from the market, Swords fight monsters, Boots move you through tunnels.
  2. 2Step off the edge of the known map and you draw a new catacomb tile and add it, so the dungeon is discovered as you go.
  3. 3Some cards make Clank!: put cubes of your colour in the Clank area. When a card with the dragon symbol turns up in the market the dragon attacks: all the cubes go into the bag, some are drawn out, and each cube drawn is damage to its owner.
  4. 4Along the way you can free prisoners, open chests and visit shops. Having taken an artifact, you still have to get out through an exit for it to count.

How you win

Once the first player escapes, the rest have only a few turns left and the dragon grows fiercer. At the end count artifacts, treasure, gold and points on cards; the highest score wins. Only players who hold an artifact and were not knocked out in the depths get to count theirs.

First time?

  • Don't be greedy: the deeper you go, the longer the way back on less health.
  • A couple of cards that remove Clank! will save your life late on.