Overview

Die Dracheninsel (The Dragon Island) is a treasure-hunting adventure game where players navigate an island of colored terrain disks, forming partnerships to carry treasure back to their boats. Players use terrain and action cards to move, swap terrain, and interfere with opponents. The player with the most collected treasure at game’s end wins.

Components

• 1 game board with colored terrain spots
• 60 terrain disks (matching colored spots on board)
• Treasure hunters (plastic cones, one per player in player colors)
• Boats (one per player color)
• Terrain cards and action cards (shuffled together into one deck)
• Treasure coins (pairs of increasing denominations: two 100 coins, then higher)
• 2 dragon figures

Setup

1. Place each of the 60 terrain disks on a board space with a matching-colored spot.
2. Place each treasure hunter on its same-colored boat.
3. Shuffle all terrain and action cards; deal 6 to each player. Remaining cards form the draw pile.
4. Place the two 100 coins on the treasure site.
5. Place both dragons next to the board.
6. Select the initial active player randomly.

Turn Structure

On your turn, you may play any number of cards and take any number of actions in any order. The turn ends when:

• Your hunter enters the treasure site and no other hunter is there.
• A Sweet Slumber card is played against you.
• You collect a treasure.
• You choose to end or cannot play further.

At end of turn, draw cards to replenish hand to 6. Next player clockwise becomes active.

Actions

Movement:

• Move onto the treasure site, your own boat, your partner’s boat, or any disk of your own color without playing a card.
• Move onto a disk of another color by playing a card of that disk’s color or your own color.

Treasure Partnership:

• When a hunter enters the treasure site while another hunter is there, they become treasure-bearer partners and must immediately leave the site together, taking the two coins.
• Partners and coins move together using normal movement rules.
• A single bearer cannot move the treasure alone.

Action Cards:

Card	Effect
Zerstorende Krafte (Destructive Forces)	Swap two adjacent unoccupied terrain disks
Tosende Elemente (Thundering Elements)	Swap any two unoccupied terrain disks
Drachenpatrouille (Dragon Patrol)	Move a dragon onto any unoccupied terrain disk not adjacent to a boat
Boser Fluch (Evil Curse)	Discard all cards, draw one randomly from each other player
Tollkuhner Flug (Foolhardy Flight)	Jump over an adjacent space (cannot jump over dragons)
Weite Reise (Long Journey)	Play a terrain card to move freely on that color for rest of turn
Angst & Schrecken (Fear & Loathing)	Send any hunter/bearer back to its boat; separated bearer chooses to abandon or wait
Hinterhaltiger Angriff (Sneak Attack)	Draw a random card from another player
Susser Schlummer (Sweet Slumber)	Stop the active player’s last action and end their turn
Gegenzauber (Counter Magic)	Block Sneak Attack, Sweet Slumber, or Fear & Loathing
Untreue (Unfaithful)	Played during treasure collection to steal both coins

Scoring / Victory Conditions

• When bearers bring treasure to a boat, each bearer collects one coin (unless Unfaithful cards are played).
• After each treasure collection, the next higher denomination pair of coins is placed on the treasure site.
• The game ends when all treasures are collected or removed from the game.
• Each player’s total collected treasure is their score. Ties broken by highest single coin. Further ties shared.

Special Rules & Edge Cases

• Cards with green backgrounds may be played out of turn at any appropriate time.
• Cards may be played to help other players.
• Cards played out of turn are not replenished until the end of that player’s next turn.
• No figure may move onto a dragon or another hunter (but a hunter may move onto a bearer).
• Treasure bearers may enter their own boats even if hunters are there.
• A player may replace a partner by moving onto the bearers and sending the other partner back.
• Partners cannot separate voluntarily.
• If not moving or executing actions (by choice or Sweet Slumber), you may reveal and discard any/all cards and draw to 6.
• If a dragon is not on the board, Dragon Patrol must bring it onto the board.

Player Reference

Item	Detail
Hand size	6 cards
Starting treasure	Two 100 coins
Movement without card	Own color disks, treasure site, own/partner’s boat
Movement with card	Other color disks (play matching color or own color)
Green-background cards	Playable out of turn
Unfaithful resolution	Alternate playing; last player gets both coins