Legends

About this board game

Legends is a travel and knowledge game for 2–4 players, played in about 60 minutes. Over 75 weeks, players compete to visit eight legendary places and learn enough about them to earn the most reputation.

Each player begins with a few randomly dealt knowledge cards connected to locations such as Atlantis, the Himalayas, and the pyramids of Egypt. On a turn, a character travels to a location of their choice, spending the amount of time shown on the game board.

At the destination, players choose how to use their visit. They may collect more knowledge cards according to the method shown at that location, or discard matching cards to place one of their diary tokens there. Discarding more cards can create the possibility of earning more points.

• Explore eight legendary locations.
• Collect and manage location-based knowledge cards.
• Place diary tokens by discarding matching knowledge.
• Compete for reputation during four meetings in London.

The points connected to diary tokens are not guaranteed. Four times during the game, the Club of Adventurers meets at its London headquarters to compare everyone’s knowledge. Since only five stories can be told at each meeting, cards submitted in London are shuffled and five different locations are revealed; only those locations score.

Sharing knowledge about a location more often makes it more likely to be selected, but those cards can no longer be used for that location’s diary. In Legends, every journey and every card may influence which stories become the most rewarding, and the player with the most reputation wins the bet.