Grandpa Beck's Games Antiquity Quest | Set Collection Card Game from, The Creators of Cover Your Assets | 2-8 Players, Ages 10+. Canasta or Hand and Foot Based Classic Card Game (1st Edition)

I watched this game played on YouTube by the cast of JK! Studios in a series called Play or Pain. The cast looked liked they were having so much fun so I decided to purchase the game and find out for myself. The first thing I noticed about Antiquity Quest was the quality of the materials. The box is sturdy and well made with amazing artwork on the front. The cards are top quality that you can feel when playing. The game is simple to learn with multiple dynamics. Each player receives a "cheat sheet" that explains what the objectives are and the value of the cards. This is a collection game where you attempted to clear your hand and create valuable collections. Be careful that you do not only focus on building collections. Opponents can sabotage your collections and prevent you from completing valuable cones. You can do the same to their sets as well. Depending on if you are playing the standard or advanced version, gameplay can last between 30-90 minutes. It's easy for younger kids to learn. The whole family will have fun with this game.

After much family debating on the pros and cons of narrowed-down-to-three game choices, we chose Antiquity Quest. We LOVE it! It's like canasta with interesting twists. The basic game is mostly luck-of-the-draw which young kids can enjoy: collect five cards of a color or mix them up with wildcards to form a collection. Play a Nigel card and you get two more cards from the deck, or play a Tess who can eliminate the discard pile before the next player has a chance to snatch it up. The advanced version entails some strategy and more opportunities for some skullduggery. This is, after all, a quest. The cards are easy to read and colorful with beautifully drawn pictures of antiquities from six ancient civilizations. The instructions are clear, BUT if you have any questions Grandpa Beck will promptly answer your email. For example: It's ok to peek back through the discard pile (we don't); Tess can't destroy an opponent's completed mixed antiquity collection (I apologized), and once a Nigel has been played he can't be used again in the game. The only downside to the game is the time it takes to shuffle all the bloomin' cards. The scoring can get a bit complicated so put the person best with math in charge.

Very fun and challenging game!

My family loves this game we can play mellow and casual or amp up the intensity of we feel like it. We enjoyed it so much we bought a second set so we could play with more people. Love these games highly recommend! Would suggest 8 years or older for bigger groups or team up to help younger players under 8 years.

Antiquity Quest is harder to learn to play than the other great games from Grandpa Beck. I started but will wait for my grandkids to figure it out. I expect it will be really good given that is what we have found from all of his other games.

Very fun family game! Kids love it!

This is a very fun addictive game! Very easy to learn and there are even videos to go watch if you don’t want to just read instructions. There are both basic and advanced rules, so if the basic way starts to get boring by chance you can always change it up. We end up playing for hours at times. Very fun to play with a group or just one other person. Our only issue was the score sheets that come with the game. It’s not broken down to easily record and expects you to add stuff then record it. We prefer seeing what everyone got for each individual collection or cards played, so we created our own scoring sheet. This is more of a personal preference though. Overall, this a very fun game for game night. Easy enough for younger players to understand and have fun, but also thought provoking enough to entertain the older crowd.

Love it!

Lovely quality, easy to follow instructions, it's sort of a souped-up version of Rummy. Another hit from Grandpa Beck! (...this is a little thing - but I love that the cards came pre-shuffled).

First off Grandpa Beck does quality productions. I have a few of their card games. All good. Cards are linen, art and design lovely. Sturdy small box. Attention to detail, fun theme. All great. This is a simple and charming variant of Hand & Foot, or Canasta or Burraco. Variations of rummyesque set collection games. There's a Basic and Advanced mode of play. We stuck to Basic cos don't want Take That. If your family plays any off those set collection games you'll pick this up in milliseconds and I think you'll enjoy it. I find the theme attractive and pleasant. Nice game. I'm not a fan of the score card, not enough lines to score different sets separately, which would be easier. Minor grumbly. Very happy with my purchase

Súper padre ! Jugamos este juego con unos amigos y tuvimos que ir corriendo a comprarlo ! 😅 nos encanta, es sencillo para la mayoría de la familia (si sabe leer, colores, y números) Súper divertido 🤩 lo recomiendo mucho!!!

Takes a while to learn it but if you get the idea how it's to play it's a great game.

It was so complicated it put us off playing. We tried to play this game on the end of the day to relax and have some fun but you need a lot of energy to learn the rules so we gave up.