Escape: The Curse of the Temple (2012)

1.5 / 5

1–5 players

10 min

BGG 6.9(6.7)

Rank #843

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Description

Escape: The Curse of the Temple is a cooperative game in which players must escape (yes...) from a temple (yes...) which is cursed (yes...) before the temple collapses and kills one or more explorers, thereby causing everyone to lose. The initial game board consists of a row of three square tiles, each showing a combination of two symbols, say, two green adventurers or one green adventurer and one blue key in one corner of the tile. All of the explorers start in the center tile – the safe room – and each player starts with a hand of five dice. Escape is played in real-time, with all players rolling dice and taking actions simultaneously. You must roll the right symbols to enter a room, and if you're at an open doorway, you can roll to reveal the next tile in the stack and add it to that doorway. Some rooms contain combinations of red and blue symbols, and if you (possibly working with other players in the same room) roll enough red or blue symbols, you "discover" magic gems, moving them from a separate gem depot onto that tile. The real-time aspect is enforced by a soundtrack to be played during the game. At certain points, a countdown starts, and if players aren't back in the safe room when time is up, they lose one of their dice.

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Expansions and Integrates With

Escape: Queenie Box

Escape: The Curse of the Temple – Exclusive Queenie 2020: Dice Shrine Chambers

Escape: The Curse of the Temple – Expansion 1: Illusions

Escape: The Curse of the Temple – Expansion 2: Quest

Escape: The Curse of the Temple – Expansion 3: Traps

Escape: The Curse of the Temple – Queenie 1: The Pit

Escape: The Curse of the Temple – Queenie 10: Totem Chamber

Escape: The Curse of the Temple – Queenie 11: The Cursed Gems

Escape: The Curse of the Temple – Queenie 12: Slide

Escape: The Curse of the Temple – Queenie 13: Map

Escape: The Curse of the Temple – Queenie 14: Wishing Well

Escape: The Curse of the Temple – Queenie 15: New Quest Chambers

Escape: The Curse of the Temple – Queenie 16: New Traps

Escape: The Curse of the Temple – Queenie 2: Doomed

Escape: The Curse of the Temple – Queenie 4: The Fountain

Escape: The Curse of the Temple – Queenie 5: Quest Chambers