Overview

In Luxor, players guide adventurers through a temple, collecting treasures and scarabs on the path to the pharaoh’s chamber tomb. Cards drive movement, but you may only play the leftmost or rightmost card from your hand — you cannot rearrange your cards. After the first two adventurers enter the chamber tomb, the game ends and the player with the most VP wins.

Components

• 1 Game board (temple path)
• 1 Horus board
• 1 Scoring board
• 31 Starter cards (numbers 1-5, +/-1, die)
• 24 Horus cards (Levels 1-3)
• 30 Treasure tiles (10 each of Vases, Statues, Jewelry)
• 14 Temple tiles
• 6 Horus tiles
• 20 Keys
• 22 Scarabs
• 20 Adventurers (5 per colour)
• 4 Scoring markers + 4 Player markers
• 1 First Player marker
• 6 Osiris tiles
• 18 Wild card treasure tiles
• 2 Sarcophagi
• 1 Die

Setup

1. Place game board centrally. Place sarcophagi in the chamber tomb.
2. Shuffle starter cards; deal 5 to each player. Remaining form the draw pile.
3. Sort Horus cards by level; shuffle each level; stack face-up on the Horus board.
4. Place Horus tiles and Osiris tiles on designated board spaces.
5. Randomly place treasure tiles face-up on all remaining empty spaces.
6. Sort temple tiles by type; shuffle each separately.
7. Each player takes 5 adventurers, scoring marker (on 0), and player marker. Place 2 adventurers upright on the starting space. Lay 1 adventurer next to each of the 3 Anubis statues.

Turn Structure

Each turn has 3 steps:

1. Play a Card and Move

• Choose your leftmost or rightmost hand card and play it to the discard pile.
• Number cards: Move one upright adventurer that many tiles toward the chamber tomb.
• +/-1 card: Move one adventurer 1 tile forward or backward.
• Die card: Roll the die; move that many tiles.
• Horus cards: Special movement (gained during play).

Movement rules:

• Move from tile to tile; skip empty spaces.
• Only upright adventurers may move. Lying-down adventurers at Anubis statues have not entered the game.
• Multiple adventurers may occupy the same tile.

2. Perform an Action

Perform the action of the tile your adventurer landed on:

• Treasure tile: Collect it if you have enough adventurers on that tile (or adjacent).
• Horus tile: Take a Horus card of the matching level.
• Temple tile: Reveal and resolve.
• Key space: Collect a key.
• Scarab tile: Collect a scarab.
• Osiris tile: Gain special ability.

3. Draw a Card

Draw from the draw pile and insert it in the middle of your remaining 4 cards. You always have 5 cards. (If draw pile is empty, shuffle the discard pile.)

Critical rule: You may NEVER rearrange the order of your hand cards.

Actions

Collecting Treasures

To collect a treasure tile, you need the required number of adventurers on that tile:

• 1 adventurer: collect matching treasures with 1 required
• 2+ adventurers: collect treasures requiring multiple adventurers

Treasure sets (one of each type) score escalating VP at game end.

Entering the Chamber Tomb

An adventurer with a key may enter the chamber tomb. Place the key on a key space and the adventurer in the tomb. The adventurer scores VP based on position.

Waking Adventurers (Anubis Statues)

When an upright adventurer passes an Anubis statue, the lying-down adventurer there stands up and can be moved on future turns.

Scoring / Victory Conditions

Game End Trigger: The instant two adventurers (any players’) enter the chamber tomb, finish the current round.

Final Scoring (in order):

1. Adventurer positions: VP based on how far each adventurer progressed
2. Sarcophagi: VP from claimed sarcophagi
3. Keys remaining: VP per unused key
4. Treasure sets: Escalating VP for sets of different treasure types
5. Scarabs: VP from collected scarabs

Highest VP wins.

Special Rules & Edge Cases

• Hand order is sacred: Never rearrange cards. Only play leftmost or rightmost.
• New cards go in the middle: Always insert drawn cards between positions 2 and 3 (of your 4 remaining).
• Empty spaces are skipped: Movement counts only tiles with content.
• Horus cards replace starter cards in your hand and offer more powerful movement options.
• Wild card treasures can substitute for any treasure type in sets.

Player Reference

Turn: Play leftmost/rightmost card → Move → Tile action → Draw to middle

Hand Management: 5 cards, only play from edges, insert new cards in the centre

Final Scoring Order:

1. Adventurer position VP
2. Sarcophagi VP
3. Key VP
4. Treasure set VP
5. Scarab VP