Keltis

Lost Cities opened up to a full table, where knowing when to stop pushing a path is the whole art of it.

👥 2–4 players⏱ approx. 30 min🪄 Rules in 5 min8+

SdJ 2008★ 6.2 · BGG #2,341

Who it's for

Fans of Lost Cities and elegant push-your-luck games who want a quick, sharp strategy game for a full table.

Not for you if…

You want direct player conflict, because Keltis stays a mostly solitaire-parallel race with minimal interaction between players.

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Vibe's take

elegant, tense, quick, calculating, satisfying

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About this game

Keltis takes the elegant push-your-luck tension of Lost Cities and opens it up to a full table, sending everyone's colored stones down five paths at once. Play a stone lower than the last one down a path, or start fresh with a higher value, and watch the risk build as you decide when to lock in points versus when to keep gambling on a bigger finish. Bonus tiles reward players who commit early to a path, and knowing when to abandon a losing route versus double down is the whole game in miniature. Simple to teach, quick to play, and it earned the Spiel des Jahres for a reason: it is Knizia at his cleanest.

Spiel des Jahres winnerFive paths of push-your-luck tensionClassic Reiner Knizia design

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