The 7th Continent

Classic Edition supports 1–4 players. Choose characters and one or more curse Clues. Build the shared Action Deck from common skills, participating character skills and required Curse cards; use the Clue to establish the starting terrain.

Collectively choose an active player each turn; the same person may act again. If agreement fails, the previous active player’s left neighbor acts. Characters on the same terrain may join with permission, subject to action requirements.

Resolve each action through Item, Cost, Result, Skill, Discard, Consequence and Hand Size Limit. Do not interrupt one action with another; a newly revealed mandatory action is resolved immediately after the current action finishes.

Reduce used items’ durability, then calculate the draw cost. Extra draws usually improve the odds, but locked actions restrict extra draws and the specified cooperative adjustment. Apply the icons when exchanging a lower cooperative cost for higher difficulty.

Reveal drawn cards, count full stars and correctly combined half-stars, then add applicable effects. Meeting the difficulty succeeds. At most one revealed Skill may be kept by one involved character; character-specific Skills go only to that character and Curses cannot be kept.

Discard other drawn Action cards and items exhausted during the action, apply the white success or black failure consequence, then enforce hand limits. Failure with multiple involved characters also gives the active player the specified paranoid State.

An empty Action Deck is not immediate defeat. Shuffle the Discard Pile face down and draw randomly from it; drawing or revealing a Curse from that pile while the Action Deck is empty loses the game. A Curse drawn from the normal deck does not cause that loss. Recovery effects can rebuild the Action Deck.

Explore and move as cards instruct. Normal movement requires a continuous chain of terrain; obstacles may require their own actions. Crafting does not require physical resources first: available resources reduce its cost. Follow player-count limits for hands, inventories and combined items.

Save only when all characters occupy one terrain and nobody is resolving an action or required to take a mandatory one. Put other board cards into the Past. Use Save cards to record durability and preserve character hands, items, Action Deck, Discard Pile and Satchel & Journal contents separately.

To resume, return the Past to its original decks and restore saved terrain, adjacent Exploration cards, characters, item durability and shared piles. Lift all selected curses to win together. A consequence ending the adventure of all involved characters also loses the game when everyone is involved.