Ancient · Card Game

Lost in Time

Lost in Time is a thematic card game centering around time travel with three sets of rules that allow for different ways of play. The game consists of 88 cards with beautiful historical illustrations. No, it is not just a question of placing cards on a timeline! There's much more to it than that...

1–4 players45 minages 10medium difficulty

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What is Lost in Time

The first version of the game is light and easy, specifically designed for families. It's the year 2031: you are one of the very first time travelers and you have been sent to the past. However, your time machine does not work as it was supposed to (isn't that typical!) and you are left stranded in the past. Now you have to get back to the year 2031. Each game round the players must jump into time but the problem is: not everybody will want to travel to the future like you do, some will want to jump to the past. And if you can't place anything on your timeline, you run the risk of being absorbed by the time-space continuum. It's a tug-of-war in time & space. Duration of play: 20 to 30 minutes.

The second version, The Time Bandits, is heavier and semi-cooperative. In this game lets the players choose between being the secret agents or the thieves. The thieves, sent to the past by a criminal organization, must collect four historical artifacts before the eighth card has been played. The agents have been hired & vigourously trained by the government to hunt the criminals down before they end up changing the past and thus also automatically...the future. All players receive a deck of 18 cards which represent their time machine's battery allowing them to conjure up a wormhole in order to jump into time. The players must keep a close eye on the level of their battery: if it's empty, they will not be able to jump in time anymore and they will end up Lost in Time. Both the agents and thieves can make use of famous historical characters (Elizabeth I, Napoleon or Lenin...) to help them stop their rivals! Duration of play: 30 to 40 minutes.

The third version is a solo variant. Before traveling to the past, you must decide how many batteries (deck of cards) to bring along. Every leap in time costs an amount of energy and even moreso if you end up in a period of disaster. When your batteries are empty, you are stuck in time, so you must be economical with your available energy! Will you jump in time immediately and save your battery, or will you press your luck and spend more energy in order to find a data chip that will help your travel through time more easily? Duration of play: 15 to 20 minutes.

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