…in a graveyard! (Whose idea was this again?!) But hey, it’s actually a really fun way to pass the time.
Ok, that sounded bad. Let’s Dig For Treasure is a press-your-luck style card game in a trio of recent releases based on the artwork of Steven Rhodes. See? Not actually digging in any graveyards. That would be ill-advised. But anyways, on to the game!
Like I said, Let’s Dig For Treasure is a press-your-luck game. The deck is split into 3 Dig Stacks, and on your turn you choose one, flip the top card, decide if you’ll risk flipping the next, and so forth, until you either choose to stop, or the game chooses for you. This can happen if you draw an Evil Skeleton (your turn ends immediately), or two Worms cards. If you stopped of your own volition, congratulations! Everything you collected over the course of that turn is now yours to keep.
Cards are split into 3 categories: 1) When You Dig This Up, which get used as soon as you draw them, 2) When You Score This, in other words, resolve these when you decide to call it quits, and 3) When Scoring At Game End, which is fairly self-explanatory. As a general rule, When You Dig This Up cards are… not very nice. Sometimes not nice for you (Evil Skeletons and Worms), sometimes not nice for everyone, like the Tweenage Mutated Samurai Worms, which are placed next to one of the Dig Stacks, and make it so anyone drawing from that deck only needs one Worms card to strike out. By contrast, When You Score This cards are usually helpful, and When Scoring At Game End cards are… conditionally valuable. Examples of the latter include Board Game and New Kid, both of which are worth 0 points, unless you’re the owner of the game, in which case Board Game becomes worth 5, or this is your first time playing Let’s Dig For Treasure, in which case New Kid becomes worth 20.
The game ends when one of the three stacks runs out of cards, and whoever has the most points wins!
