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Keltis (2008)

Average Rating: 6.54/10
Board Game Rank: 795
Family Game Rank: 202
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Designer
Artist
Publisher
Year Published
2008
# of Players
2 − 4
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 3 players
Recommended with 2, 3, 4 players
(61 voters) [poll]
Playing Time
30 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
10 and up
User Suggested Ages
8 and up
(12 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence
No necessary in-game text
(31 voters) [poll]
Honors
Subdomain
(30 voters) [vote]
Category
Mechanic
Expansion
Expands
Family
Primary Name
Keltis
Alternate Names
Keltis La Voie De La Pierre
Κέλτες
圣石之路 (聖石之路)
켈티스
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Keltis is a multi-player game that takes its mechanisms from Knizia's Lost Cities card game. Players play cards to move their playing pieces along stone paths. Cards show one of five different colors/symbols, each corresponding to one path; in addition, each card shows a number (0-10, twice each). In each color, each player can play his cards in either ascending or descending order. As in Lost Cities, it's better to concentrate on a few paths since the final spaces on a path grant high points, but ending early gives negative ones.

The active player plays one card (out of a hand of eight) or discards one, then moves the corresponding playing piece on the path. Many of the spaces have a token that grants some bonus: either immediate points (counted on the scoring track), an extra move on a path, or wishing stones that are needed at game end to avoid negative points.

The game ends when five playing pieces (from any combination of players) have reached the seventh (or higher) space on their respective paths. Now, scoring happens:

  • Pieces which moved only 1-3 steps earn negative points (-4, -3, -2).
  • Pieces with 4+ steps earn points (1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 10).
  • One piece of each player twice the height of other pieces and scores double, either positive or negative.
  • Holding fewer than two wish stones earns negative points (-3 / -4), while a collection of five or more stones yields a bonus of 10 points.

All endgame points are added to any scored during the game. The player with the highest score wins!

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Preliminary differences between Lost Cities: The Board Game and Keltis:

1. In LCBG you play 3 rounds, scoring at the end of all 3 for the monuments you collect. (Normal scoring occurs each round.) In Keltis, you only play 1 round, and score everything each round. This is not just a rule difference, as the scoring is different for the monuments/stones based on the number collected.

2. In Keltis, you may play your cards in either order, high to low, or low to high. In LCBG, you must go low to high.

Note: the rules for LCBG have the Keltis rules as variants, and have the board elements necessary for #1 above. Keltis does not have the rules nor board elements to play LCBG.

There are more differences, that are non-substantive. (Art, points in LCBG multiplied by 5, etc.)


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Cardgame version of Keltis:

Travel version:

Online Play

  • Bordspel.nl (Realtime English and Dutch; is online as Lost Cities: the board game, but you can play a variant with the Keltis rules (select: short game and play cards in ascending and descending order).

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Keltis
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German second edition (includes Neue Wege, Neue Ziele)
Publisher: Kosmos
Artist: Martin Hoffmann, Claus Stephan
Year: 2012
Product Code: 691783
Size: Medium Square (e.g. Ticket to Ride)
German
Release Date:  Feb 10, 2012
Unreleased
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Keltis
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Kosmos "teaser" game (2p)
Publisher: Kosmos
Artist: 
Year: 2010
Size: 4.33 x 4.33 x 0.20 inches
0.07 pounds
German
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圣石之路 (聖石之路)
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Chinese first edition
Publisher: Wargames Club Publishing
Artist: Martin Hoffmann, Claus Stephan
Year: 2010
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Chinese
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Keltis
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Hungarian first edition
Publisher: Kosmos, Piatnik
Artist: Martin Hoffmann, Claus Stephan
Year: 2009
Product Code: 770395
Size: 29.70 x 29.70 x 7.10 inches
0.07 pounds
Hungarian
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켈티스
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Korean first edition
Publisher: Korea Boardgames
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Year: 2009
Size: Medium Square (e.g. Ticket to Ride)
Korean
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2 [Español] Reglas a la JcK
Completo resumen de las reglas con imagenes al estilo JcK [imageid=1251209 medium]
2012-05-17
1 Japanese Rules
Translated from German rules. No images included.
2011-04-25
0 Keltis teaser game english rules
Keltis teaser game english rules translation
2010-12-19
0 Keltis Quick Reference Japanese Version
This file is japanese translated version of "Keltis Quick Reference"( http://www.boardgamegeek.com/filepage/36122/). v1.1.j1 Fixed "取り除く" to "石の上に残る".
2010-09-08
7 Keltis Russian rules
Pdf with color pics from original rules.
2010-05-12
1 Concise reference sheet by hecose
Reference sheet useful for quick referencing and provides a structured summary for teaching the game.
2009-08-27
2 Keltis Sideboard
Small sideboard that lets players play and score the longer 3 round version of the game as found in Lost Cities the Board Game Rules.
2009-06-11
4 Lost Cities Boardgame Brief by Liumas 2009-01
All the rules you need on a half page.
2009-04-23
3 Keltis - Romanian Rules
Traducerea regulamentului din limba engleza.
2009-02-20
5 Tuckboxes for Lost Cities: the Board Game
2 tuckboxes to hold the 110 cards from Lost Cities: the Board Game (Rio Grande Games edition). Each tuckbox holds 55 cards, of course. These tuckboxes have a glued bottom. Base tuckbox generated at http://tuckbox.gameupdates.com/.
2009-01-23
Statistics
Board Game Rank: 795
Family Game Rank: 202
Num Ratings: 2459
Average Rating: 6.54
Standard Deviation: 1.37
Num Views: 192563
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Avg. Game Weight: 1.6
Fans: 29
Personal Comments: 656
Users Owning: 2432
Users Wanting: 117
Users Trading: 60 [find trade matches]
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Total Plays: 8692
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Average Rating 7.40
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Year Published 2009
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