Treasure X: Quest for Gold – How to Play

If you’ve never seen the Treasure X products on the shelves at your local retail outlet, make sure to take a look in the toy isle next time you are there. These fun toys have kids of all ages cutting into aliens or digging into dirt, looking for the pieces to ancient skeletons and more, all in an effort to grow their own army and collect them all! The popular kids toy has been spun into it’s own board game, published and released by Ravensburger. Let’s dive in and learn to play Treasure X: Quest for Gold!

Objective

In Quest for Gold, players will be moving around a map using cards from their hand, flipping tokens, unlocking chests, and trying to collect as much loot as possible. Whoever has the most loot at the end of the game is declared the winner.

Setup

Unfold the game board and place it in the middle of the table. Take out the plastic Deck and Discard holder, and place it in the slot at the bottom of the board. Take all of the ‘Tree’, ‘Rock’, and ‘Treasure Chest’ tokens out of the box, sort them by picture type, and mix them thoroughly. Then take one token from each pile, and place a stack on each space of the game board, ignoring the ship spaces and the compass space in the middle.

When stacking the tokens, remember that the chest goes on the bottom, the rock goes in the middle, and the tree goes on the top. Once every space has a stack of three tokens, take the Treasure X miniature, assemble him if necessary, and place him on the compass space in the middle of the board. This is a shared figure that all players will move.

Finally, shuffle the deck of cards and deal 5 to each player, before placing the remainder on the back of the plastic base. This is the draw pile. Now that you are all setup, it is time to play!

How to Play

Once a starting player has been determined, the first player can begin playing cards and performing actions. A maximum of three cards can be played per turn, not including key cards which do not count as part of a players three allowed cards. The deck has a number of cards which we will look at now:

Normal Movement Cards – within the deck, there are a number of movement cards which will allow players to move one space north, east, south, or west.

Double Movement Cards – these cards allow players to move two spaces, in any direction. If they wish, players can stop on the first space and flip a token, before going to the second space, where they can also flip a token.

Ship Cards – when played, players can immediately move the explorer to any ship space on the board.

Key Cards – key cards do not count as part of the three allowable card plays per turn; they are used to unlock treasure chests.

Double Flip Cards – these cards allow players to flip over two tokens on the space they currently occupy. This is the only way to flip tokens without actually moving. If attempting to flip a chest, a key must still be used.

Once a card has been played, players will move the figure in the appropriate direction. On every space, player shave the option of flipping the top token in the stack to see if there is any treasure. If there is, that piece is placed in the luggage carrier at the top of the board, and players continue their adventure. Once a player elects to stop playing cards, or has played the maximum number of cards, they can collect the treasure in the bag, and place it in-front of them.

If a player ever lands on a ship space, they may immediately move the figure to any other ship space on the board, and then continue their turn.

The player may then discard as many cards from their hand as they wish, and draw new cards, up to 5 in their hand.

Sprinkled around the board are EXIS tokens, which when flipped, instantly end a players turn, and any treasure in the bag is returned to the box. The EXIS token is placed in the designated spot on the plastic card holder, and play continues with the next player. Once 4 EXIS tokens are revealed, the game ends. Players will then calculate their scores, earning one point for each money bag they have, and three points for each gold artifact.

And that is how you play Treasure X: Quest for Gold. Stay tuned for our full review soon!