Ancient Knowledge
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Ancient Knowledge
Description
Description
| Designer |
Rémi Mathieu |
| Publisher | IELLO |
| Players | 2-4 |
| Playtime | 75 mins |
| Suggested Age | 12 and up |
| Expansion |
Ancient Knowledge: Heritage |
Heirs to an exceptional knowledge that has survived the ages, it is now up to you to preserve the vestige of your civilization.
Ancient Knowledge is a strategic card game in which you erect monuments and build artefacts to pass on your knowledge. Time will make your constructions ephemeral,so make the right decision and combine the many cards at your disposal, because all knowledge is doomed to disappear…
It's up to you to find the best synergy so that you can pass down knowledge before the decline of the emblematic monuments you have constructed, monuments we still find nowadays in the four corners of the globe. From Mexican pyramids to the Sphinx of Giza, passing through the famous cities of Tiwanaku and Babylon, only the cleverest builder will shine through the ages and seize victory. In this game, your only enemy is time.
Prove to your opponents that you are the worthly representative of your Legacy!
Will your monuments withstand the trial of time?
—description from the publisher
Customer Reviews
Try to get rid of knowledge tokens on monument cards you build as the timeline goes by or be stuck with negative points at the end! Artifact cards can be played for permanent or one time special effects on your turn but don’t generate points. The card and board quality is high and the art and colour scheme works.
There are 2 parts to your tableau; The Artifacts row at the bottom is your "permanent" engine and the two Monuments rows at the top are your "temporary" engine. Every round the top cards move one space to the left, eventually falling down to the "past" where they will score. Once a player has 14 cards in their past, the end of game is triggered.
I like this game because your engine is always changing and you need to adapt to the cards you draw. I dinged a star because it feels a bit slow at higher player count, great at 2 players, a 4 player game would be too long in my opinion.
Ancient Knowledge
A challenging, streamlined game with excellent iconography and components, and displays ancient wonders and various forms of technology.