Lost Ruins of Arnak | DETAILED & QUICK TUTORIAL | Learn to Play in 14 MINUTES!

Lost Ruins of Arnak is a mega-popular game and it's actually not as complex as it might seem at first glance. In this new video, we'll teach you how to play Lost Ruins of Arnak in just 14 short minutes with a detailed tutorial that should help you get it to the table a little bit quicker.
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*BUY A CARD RULES CORRECTION*
When you buy a card from the market, put it on the BOTTOM OF YOUR DECK, not in your playing area. Apologies for the error!
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0:00 Introduction
0:43 SETUP
2:41 Overview of Round Phases
2:55 PHASE 1
3:00 PHASE 2
3:17 Main Action - Dig at a Site
4:16 Main Action - Discover New Site
5:36 Main Action - Overcome Guardian
6:07 Main Action - Buy a Card
6:23 CORRECTION! Rules Error, See Description
6:43 Main Action - Play a Card
7:37 Main Action - Research
9:22 Main Action - Pass
9:48 Idol Token Explanation
10:28 Exile Cards Explanation
10:50 Assistants Explanation
11:35 PHASE 3
12:10 PHASE 4
12:25 FINAL SCORING

[@AllYouCanBoard]

What are your thoughts on Lost Ruins of Arnak? How does it compare to other worker placement or deck-building games you've played?

[@BraidenWatling]

I can see why it's so popular! I love the deck building aspect to help your exploration/resource gathering. Seems like it would be very rewarding!

[@AllYouCanBoard]

Yeah it has a pretty different feel compared to other deckbuilders I've played. Your deck doesn't get a whole much larger, at least it didn't in the game I played, and there's tons of other mechanics and things going on that it's sort of a secondary mechanic. It's very good though and really interesting, looking forward to playing with 3 or 4.

[@genehumphrey6788]

Love it with two comments...1] The edges of the cards chip easy when you shuffle them, so I recommend card sleeves...2] Our house rule is that Fear Cards are worth -5 points instead of -1. This makes sense to me because you start with 10 points due to the empty idol spaces and you start with 2 Fear Cards in your hand, so if they are -5 each, your cumulative starting score is 0. It also puts more pressure on you to defeat the guardians. Over all...LOVE THIS GAME!

[@tedduby2346]

@@genehumphrey6788 That is an interesting variant.

[@user-ol7xj6qz7l]

I can see why people are calling it "Mage Knight lite"

[@danielcottam8801]

Hi this was a great tutorial! There was one error, however. When purchasing an item card, it does not go into your play area, but instead goes face down on the bottom of your draw pile. This guarantees that it will be drawn before your currently played cards re-appear. Only artifact cards go into your play area when purchased. This video was great, thanks!

[@wilkiedickinson-sparkes1920]

I had to learn how to play this game for a job interview at a board game cafe, and it was super helpful! I struggle to focus on reading for long periods so the quick and snappy video really worked for me!

[@AllYouCanBoard]

That's a very cool requirement for a job interview! So glad our video could help you out!

[@wilkiedickinson-sparkes1920]

@@AllYouCanBoard I got the job! My first shift is next week!

[@theyodicoyote]

@@wilkiedickinson-sparkes1920 Congratulations!

[@AltusNoumena]

How did the job turnout all these years later? It's my dream to open up a board game cafe​@@wilkiedickinson-sparkes1920

[@maxkuchenberg6494]

This may be the best board game tutorial I've ever seen. Very well done, great pacing, very concise. Thank you very much!

[@AllYouCanBoard]

That is insanely nice of you! Glad you enjoyed it so much and that it helped!

[@GreenIguanaQi]

Wow! Great job! Love your style of teaching. Fast, interesting and exact. Perfect!

[@thegame-a-paloozashow964]

Best Arnak tutorial yet. SHORT and sweet. Great job!

[@AllYouCanBoard]

Thanks a lot, glad you enjoyed it!

[@alexrayment3816]

Seriously, a brilliant video tutorial. Thanks for the hard work.

[@BoardGameHangover]

You're a lifesaver! Loved the tempo and explanations, really easy to follow along and learn it in no time. When looking for How to play videos those 40min. videos can seem a little daunting. You surprisingly did it in 14 min. and covered everything we needed to play our first game. Awesome!

[@AllYouCanBoard]

Thank you very much, so glad you enjoyed the video and found it helpful!

[@jonathangerac2820]

Awesome tutorial. Really well put together and well explained.

[@smorganimages]

You explained this so well. Thank you.

[@amchasteenable]

Fantastic! Feel free to keep doing these rapid-fire tutorials whenever you feel compelled. I usually jump straight to the shortest tutorial, but yours happens to be the best as well.

[@jacobfigler5275]

Love this theme, it's like judging a book by the cover, but with this game it works out perfectly! Great theme and it's actually a good game!

[@AdamPiatkowski-ro9fo]

Great job, thanks a lot for the video!

[@Luke-mt8dr]

Thank you for creating such a clear and concise tutorial!

[@thepilgrim8336]

Stellar video! Thank you

[@subcon1980]

Great quality video tutorial for a very interesting game!

[@ryangilmore3678]

Winner for best how-to video for this game! I’ve seen a few, but this is easily the easiest to digest. Thank you!

[@AllYouCanBoard]

Thanks a lot, Ryan! That's awesome to hear, really glad you enjoyed it. ☺️

[@thedudeslawyer]

Great tutorial; thanks!

[@pigasos15]

thank you for your time! its a very nice explanation of the rules. Greetings from Greece. keep up the good work!!!

[@AllYouCanBoard]

Glad you enjoyed the video! Thanks for the comment! :)

[@tomasxfranco]

I had exactly 1 question left after watching another video and part of yours, and you answered it explicitly. Addressing passing+ doing free actions was very helpful. Thanks.

[@AllYouCanBoard]

Thanks Tom, glad you found the video helpful! :)

[@memolano100]

Great video. Thanks.

[@Christian-cy2pn]

Nice game and very nicely explained. Exactly how i played it for the first time yesterday 👍

[@zombiefireman]

Great overview! Thanks

[@davidbator429]

Really good explanation of everything, thank you!

[@AllYouCanBoard]

My pleasure, glad you enjoyed it and it was helpful!

[@marks6928]

Great video, really helpful! Thank you

[@AllYouCanBoard]

Thanks Mark, glad it helped!

[@kaesar98]

Nice summary! I'm really enjoying this game and it has been well received by everyone in my game group. I even noticed a few set-up and game play errors I've made (Research track bonus tiles are placed face-up and each player reaching the temple row gets to pick from the stack there instead of taking the top tile). Thanks!!

[@AllYouCanBoard]

No problem, so glad you enjoyed the video and found it helpful!

[@jefftimmerman6208]

What a top-notch tutorial!

[@simonmcg23]

Great work.

[@IosifStalin2]

Bravo…you have such talent for teaching!!

[@AllYouCanBoard]

Thank you very much!

[@Coffeemaker1978]

Love Lost Ruins of Arnak. And your How to is sharp and to the point.

[@AllYouCanBoard]

Thank you! :)

[@GamingRulesVideos]

Awesome job!

[@AllYouCanBoard]

Thanks Paul, appreciate it!

[@danbrown679]

At present, this is the best how to play video for Lost Ruins of Arnak. Where this is better than other is 1) the length of the video, and 2) not getting bogged down in the theme of the game when explaining actions. It was a bit fast, but up-close shots of the cards allowed pausing to read and catch up. Great job of reiterating important concepts (e.g two things you can use a card for). Also great at explaining turn layout and focusing on the important parts (e.g announcing that action phase was important and going over each action carefully). This game is actually very simple, but is made more complex by the crazy names for resources (instead of gold, compasses and tablets, perhaps they should have been tumeric, cinnamon . and cadomom, or maybe just yellow, red, and green.) For future videos, it would be helpful to announce what is a resource us used for purchasing things and also go over card structure to identify costs and effects. Overall excellent video.

[@AllYouCanBoard]

Thanks for all the feedback! We'll definitely keep that in mind for the future. But I'm glad to hear you found the video helpful!

[@babisdim3682]

Very nice explanation !!Allow me a correction to “Buy a card” action… an item you buy goes to the bottom of your deck ,not in play area ..

[@carojuao]

I came here to say exactly the same.

[@dannybonell3769]

Awesome video! Much better than the official one CGE sponsored. Keep up the good work bud, loving the channel 👍

[@AllYouCanBoard]

Thanks very much, Danny! So glad you enjoyed it and found it helpful! :)

[@GamingRulesVideos]

Sorry you didn’t like mine. If there was something specific about it, please let me know so I can improve. Was it the accent? :)

[@CrispyHulk1]

Love the artwork.and.graphic design of this board game

[@twiztid79]

Nice. I will come back for other games in the future.

[@fbbf2932]

Grand video. I recently started playing Lost Ruins of Arnak. now I have two expansions for this game. After playing this game, I think it's one of the best board games. It is well made - solid elements, has wonderful colorful graphics, lots of mechanics (building a deck of cards, buying cards, collecting and exchanging raw materials, moving in several ways, conducting research, discovering excavation sites and much more). The game creates a very nice competition with other players for everything (cards, money, research, etc.). Playing Arnak also doesn't take much time, so it doesn't tire players. The only (but very, very small) disadvantage that I could almost forcefully come up with for this game is that it takes up some space on the table. Close to perfect, really. I recommend.

[@AllYouCanBoard]

Glad you've found a game you love so much! That's awesome.

[@juanroaguilo]

amazing explanation!

[@AllYouCanBoard]

Thank you!

[@BillyIndiana]

Great tutorial! We're playing for the first time this weekend!

[@AllYouCanBoard]

Awesome, hope you had a good experience!

[@BillyIndiana]

@@AllYouCanBoard we enjoyed the 1st game then really loved our 2nd play after we understood it better. We're teaching it to friends this weekend!

[@andrewcowan7799]

Ive only ever played this on BGA. Once you pass, you have passed. You cant do free actions once you've passed and sit out until the next moon staff round. Also, item cards are not placed in the player area. They are added to your face down pile. Other than that a very good tutorial.

[@deeza85za]

06:23 rules clarification - if it’s an item card you add it to the bottom of your deck, not the playing area.

[@deeza85za]

Never mind, I see you’ve added it to your videos description. Nice video, enjoyed it.

[@kosmosbos]

Hello. Uour voice is great to explain boardgames. Just a tip though. When I tried to understand your video, I often felt lost because of 2 things. 1)The problem with your rules explanation for me is that you never show the entire board and zoom in the part that you want to explain. It's much easier to be able to connect understanding to board location. 2) you refer to things that are going to be explained later, giving no clue about what that future explanation will be about. That method interrupts the mental flow of the audience. E.g. when a location is discovered and a guardian comes, you completely stop and focus on sth else. You should say that this monster can be beaten but in another turn, and we'll get to how later. Then it's logical for the audience. Hope this helps.

[@RoomandBoardReviews]

Best tutorial out there for this one, just really well made, great pacing and you explain the game like you're someone who knows how to play and not someone who is reading a script. Any publisher would be lucky to sponsor you to make a video for them :)

[@ethanfry8560]

really good video

[@AllYouCanBoard]

Thanks a lot, Ethan!

[@KimDahl77]

Here is some feedback for you. Love your quick how to play video, very good. It would be a good idea however, to have different colors in your thumbnails. Like blue for reviews and green for how to play. When they are all blue, like they are now it makes it very difficult to differentiate between them :)

[@AllYouCanBoard]

Thanks for the feedback, Kim! This is something we'll definitely keep in mind as we look at customizing our thumbnails in the future.

[@CrazyKoenie]

At 6:24 shouldn’t you put the purchased card underneath your draw pile instead of next to your played cards?

[@samarthpawan6596]

you're amazing.....

[@pixiejenkins]

At 6:27 you say place the item card on the play area but I thought the rules say place it at the bottom of your deck? Also what are the RESERVE TILES used for as I couldn’t find a reason for these? Thank you.

[@GregSole]

Great tutorial! No unecessary rambling, just the details.

[@AllYouCanBoard]

Glad you liked it, Greg!

[@mochamadluthfan]

Great tutorial! Not a fan of blurry background though, eyes automatically tried to focus.

[@dankelly]

I see 7 Wonders Duel over your shoulder. What's the rightmost box for 7WD. It doesn't look like Pantheon and Agora is the middle box. (Thanks for this video BTW! I'll need playing lost Ruins this afternoon.)

[@AllYouCanBoard]

It is in fact Agora and Pantheon, I have both expansions for it. Hope you had a successful play of Arnak!

[@bcmaledragon]

Great video and explanation of the game. The only question that I have (because I've just taught this game to my roommate) that I didn't see in the rulebook or on BGG that did come up in our game is.....If someone has already gone to a dig site and defeated the monster there can anyone go to that site in the following rounds(If nobody is there of course) and gain the reward already depicted on the site tile and does another monster show up to be defeated or do you just get the rewards on the site tile?

[@AllYouCanBoard]

You can go to the site tile again in following rounds!

[@bcmaledragon]

@@AllYouCanBoard Awesome. If I do what happens? Do I get the resources again and does a new monster show up if there isn’t one there already because it was beaten last round?

[@TheSimpsfan]

Just noticed you made an error: when you buy and item you put it at the bottom of your deck!

[@AllYouCanBoard]

Great catch, thank you for commenting! I've noted this in the time stamps and added a correction to the description!

[@wicaksonoadi1035]

@@AllYouCanBoard So I assume at 06:41 we also put purchased artifact on the bottom of the deck, instead of on play area?

[@bum170]

@@wicaksonoadi1035 I'm late to answer, but anyways Items move to the bottom of the deck immediately, you don't get anything *now* but this means it will be above whatever cards you played on the turn you bought it, and if you can get enough card draws, you can even use it that round. With artifacts, you instead get the artifact's effect immediately as if you played the card, and it goes in the play area. This is why there are more artifacts and less items as the game progresses. Items are an investment for a later benefit, and artifacts are an immediate benefit, but investing for later becomes less worth it as there is less time left, and immediate benefits are more useful.

[@martinrichter378]

Yes! Best toturial of this game - good job! Q: does anyone know what the "return arrow" beside the Guardian symbol means, on one of the artifacts? Thx.😊

[@AllYouCanBoard]

Do you know what the artifacts name is?

[@marccaron6008]

Excellent tutorial. I tried listening to others but stopped after just a few minutes.

[@1n1ee]

Is this game fun solo?

[@AllYouCanBoard]

I think this is one you'll likely enjoy more with 2-4, in my personal opinion! But the solo is still good.

[@ThisNameWasTooLon]

6:23 You bought an item card and added it to the playing area. It should have gone to the bottom of the deck. An artifact card on the other hand, would have been added to the playing area.

[@AllYouCanBoard]

You're right! I noticed this when the video first went up, you'll see there's a correction in the description and the chapter title. But yes, you're definitely correct!

[@killmor81]

You said the person with the lowest points win?

[@troygizzi]

No, he said "most", not "lowest".

[@niekka1978]

He said "you don't _have_ to use an action" to play a free action, but can you if you want to? Edit: you can't, because you have to perform at least one main action on your turn.

[@LaChazzz]

As mentioned in another comment, there is a mistake in this tutorial! When purchasing an "item" card, it does not go into your play area, but instead goes at the bottom of your draw pile. It would be nice to correct that in the video, or via a pinned comment, as otherwise new players to this game watching your video will get this wrong! Great video otherwise!

[@diamondmeeple]

Nice tutorial. Will I buy or play this game.... eh...no. Its on boardgamearena now.

[@AllYouCanBoard]

It plays great on board game arena! I do enjoy the physical version though, something still great about holding all the components.

[@diamondmeeple]

@@AllYouCanBoard Not my kind of game.

[@Jes64JJG]

Really liked this tutorial, but then despite it being mentioned in the comments, you have still not corrected a really crucial rule about placing the item card to the bottom of your stack and not into your hand (you could just put some text over the video presumably). Mistakes happen, but if you don’t correct them then I’m afraid I won’t bother watching any more of your videos.

[@danb2812]

I feel like these explanations would be better if you'd start the explanation by telling me how to play. Instead you're telling me about how to set up the board with varying numbers of players. I don't care how to set up the board. I don't even have to set up the board, because BGA will do it for me. Don't tell me where to put the artifacts deck; instead, tell me what an artifact is and how I will interact with it. A good explanation should start with: "In this game, you're sending workers to temples to fetch artifacts, which get you points..." or whatever it is I'm doing.

[@danb2812]

I felt better about this once I realized I could skip past the "introduction" and "setup" parts of the video.

[@jasonjoyce2177]

@@danb2812 First time watching a video on the internet?