Ravensburger The Quest for El Dorado: Golden Temples Adventure Family Game - Engaging Brain Teaser | Ideal for Ages 10 & Up | High Replay Value | Game of The Year 2017 Finalist

🤠 The Quest for El Dorado is an awesome racing game with a well designed deck building mechanic and modular board. Every time you play you can build an entirely different track of jungles, rivers, towns, and caves and test out different deck building strategies for great variety. It’s SUPER simple—cards are used for traveling, purchasing, or abilities—and it’s easy to teach and quick to learn. The Heroes and Hexes expansion adds great content and more variability, but the Golden Temple stand-alone expansion can be passed on. Turns are fast paced with little down time, and the racing element always get my heart racing!

Very fun game. Good mix of fun but strategic depth. Great with 3 or 4 people less fun with 2

I cant help but think about the animated movie when i think of this game, and i love both! You will definetly need a bit of table space for this game but its worth it. There are multiple tiles with lots of different configurations so the race always feels fresh, im the rulebook gal so im always reading and then explaining before i play games with anyone and i feel like it took me maybe 6 minutes to explain this game and then the race was on...at the end we were neck and neck and it was intense and fun, but also simple...sometimes you dont want to spend 20 minutes setting up the player board and 30 minutes selecting a character and then 3 hours trying to play through some tough scenario. Ease of learning and replayability for this game for me is high. Its also a pretty jungle theme, the cards are cute and small, watch the road to Eldorado while you play the game to fully submerge yourself in the theme!!

What adventurous fun! Great 2 player game for my wife and I (but you can play with up to 4 people). It take about 45 min.-1 hour to play (not a including set up/breakdown). Top quality materials used too. Cards are half the size of regular playing cards but you get used to it. It comes with everything you need to get started and for break down. Many small zip lock type bags were included for storage in the nice big and thick box.There is a learning curve, so we watched some videos on Youtube of people going through the rules and a a playthrough. It is worth the time as it is a fun game and this fun game should not be discarded due to not understanding the rules. There is setup and instruction sheet which we read, but I get a greater understanding from supplementalbaudio and visuals too.Once learned, the game brings lots of fun, through both luck and skill. We like how there can be so many board variations and we even amended the rules ourselves such as in the event of a tie, players count their obstruction tiles and the player with the highest sum wins. So Glad we brought this game into our game board quiver. I recently bought the Golden Temples expansion and look forward to incorporating in the near future.

The Quest for El Dorado is a two to four player card game that has the players racing to reach El Dorado. The game comes with a modular board that comes with a list of different ways to setup the difficulty and length of the game. Players are simply trying to reach the end before another player.The board is setup based on the difficulty they have chosen to assemble. Players will take their expedition board and the eight starting cards that match their color: 1 sailor, 3 explorers, and 4 travelers. A preset number of starting cards for the Market Board are set with the other cards placed above it to be added later.The board has images associated to a forest, water, gold, and three special areas. In order to enter a location a player must play a card that matches the location symbol. For an example, a player must spend an explorer card to move into a forest space, a sailor to enter an ocean, and a traveler to enter a gold location. This is modified further by the strength of the space they wish to enter. These spaces range from one to three, and a player is unable to combine cards to create a higher value. A player must purchase a higher value card in order to enter a location like a level three forest. The two special areas for moving into are a remove a card from game space, red space, or discard a card, grey space. These spaces can be moved into by using any card to fulfill the requirements. A last special area is the blockade which is what may be placed in-between two board pieces by the setup chosen. The symbol shown on the blockade must be played for it to be removed from the game like a forest or water symbol.A player's turn consists of playing cards for movement, and/or buying a new card. Movement is simply spending cards that match the symbol they are moving into. To purchase a card, which can be done whether a player moved or not, a player must spend gold, or half a point for the other cards, for the card's worth. There are only three cards of the same kind of card available. When one set is emptied, a player may purchase one of the set aside cards which will be added to Market Board. Only one card may be purchased and it will be placed in their discard pile.At the end of a player's turn, they will discard all cards played above their expedition board. Finally they will draw back up to four cards with the discard pile finally being shuffled when there is not enough of cards to be drawn.When a player has reached El Dorado, the remaining players in the turn will attempt to get to El Dorado. So if the last player reached El Dorado than they simply immediately when the game. If more than one player reaches El Dorado, the player with the most blockades win, but if it is still a tie than the player with the highest blockade number wins.The Quest for El Dorado is a lite racing game that has players trying to build the best deck and take chances to reach the end. Building a deck is required, but someone who is not use to this kind of mechanic will not feel lost. The race is what matters and someone spending their turns trying to build an optimum deck will usually lose the game. Adding to this is the great catch-up mechanic of the Blockade. This little Hindrance is very easy to overcome, but spending an extra card can hurt someone's movement. The variable number of setups for the board is nice for when a more advance play is needed. An addition to the game is a variant that allows cave tokens to be added. These cave tokens can be pickup if a player ends their movement next to a cave on the boards. This game has a great amount variability as what cards that are available to purchased are dictated by what players choose to purchase after a set of cards are emptied. This is a fun game that plays rather quickly and can become a real nail-biter towards the end of it.When teaching the game, recommend making it clear to players that the cards they play are not instantly placed in the discard pile. This will stop players from reshuffling through their deck with cards that allow them to draw more cards.

Great game with a really fun theme! Deeper strategy than I initially thought it would be, but I still really like it! Love that it kind of "puts you in a different place" like you really are an explorer trying to make your way through the jungle to this lost temple. Great quality components, beautiful table presence, fun and immersive explorative theme! Does take a good little while to play and there is possibility for a bit of analysis paralysis causing this game to go a bit longer (which makes it not one of my most frequently played games even though I do LOVE it) - just does take pretty much in depth deep thinking/planning. Good exercise for the brain every once in a while and again a really cool theme to do so with! EXCELLENT value for the money!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was actually SUPER SURPRISED at this really high-quality game I ended up actually receiving to realize that WOW! I only paid around $20 - I think it was like $22 or something when I bought it? - for this thing!!!!!! REALLY cool how these components definitely match up to and are NO LESS THAN those of the better known and high quality much more expensive games!