Lost Ruins of Arnak

Rounds and actions: Play five rounds, drawing up to five cards at each round’s start. On each of your turns, take one main action plus any available free actions before, during or after it. Free actions are restricted to your own turn. Passing ends your turns for that round.

Digging and travel: Send an archaeologist from your board to an unoccupied, unblocked action space, pay its travel cost and resolve the site. A card supplies travel or its effect. Planes cover any travel; any travel covers boots; cars and ships cannot replace each other. Two coins can generate a plane.

Discovery: Pay the region’s compass cost and the space’s travel cost, place your archaeologist, take its idols and resolve only the face-up idol reward. Reveal the matching-level site, resolve it, then awaken a guardian. Later digging does not pay the discovery compass cost again.

Guardians and idols: With your archaeologist at its site, pay a guardian’s cost as a main action to claim it for five points and a one-use boon. Each idol scores three points. Slotting one for an effect is a free action that sacrifices the empty slot’s points, but preserves the idol’s three points.

Buying and playing cards: Pay coins for an item and put it on your deck’s bottom. Pay compasses for an artifact and put it in your play area; you may immediately resolve its effect without its corner tablet cost. Playing its effect from hand later costs that tablet; other effect costs still apply. Effects without lightning take a main action.

Bird Temple research: Pay a bridge cost to advance one token one connected row. The notebook may reach the magnifying glass’s row but cannot pass it or enter the Lost Temple row. On ordinary research spaces, only the first arrival gets a bonus tile; every arrival still resolves its row effect. At the Lost Temple, each arriving magnifying glass chooses a bonus tile from the stack; later research actions may buy temple tiles. Specified notebook rows recruit or upgrade assistants; upgrading also refreshes one.

Round end: After everyone passes, retrieve archaeologists and gain one Fear for each returning from a guardian’s site. Keep leftover hand cards or discard them to your play area, shuffle only that area and put it beneath your deck. Refresh assistants, update the staff and card row, and pass the start marker. After round five, only retrieval and Fear precede scoring.

Scoring and scope: Score both research tokens, temple tiles, idols and empty slots, guardians and cards; subtract one per Fear card. Highest total wins. Break ties by earliest Lost Temple arrival, or highest research score if nobody arrived; remaining ties share victory. The Snake Temple reverse has separate research changes, and the base solo rival uses action tiles.