Expedition (1996)

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Designer	Wolfgang Kramer
Artist	Jo Hartwig
Publisher	Queen Games Ravensburger
Year Published	1996
# of Players	2 − 6
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 3 players Recommended with 2, 3, 4 players (18 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	90 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	10 and up
User Suggested Ages	10 and up (1 voter) [poll]
Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (8 voters) [poll]
Honors	1996 Meeples' Choice Award 1997 Spiel des Jahres Recommended 2006 Deutscher Lernspielpreis "9 years and up" Nominee 2006 Deutscher Lernspielpreis "9 years and up" Winner
Subdomain	Family Games (10 voters) [vote]
Category	Exploration Transportation Travel
Mechanic	Point to Point Movement Route/Network Building
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Primary Name	Expedition
Alternate Names	National Geographic Expedition Terra-X
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Based on his earlier effort, Wildlife Adventure, this is a game about moving three commonly held expeditions around the world in search of various archaeological sites. The board is a map of the world with many different branching paths, and players advance the expeditions by placing plastic arrows. When an expedition arrives at a location that matches one of your cards, you score that card. The first player to score all his cards ends the game, and the highest total score takes the day.

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Wildlife Adventure

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Schatzsucher (children's version)

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1997 Spiel des Jahres Recommendation.
1996 Meeples' Choice Award Winner.

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National Geographic Expedition

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Ravensburger English Edition

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Year: 2005

Size: Long Rectangle (e.g. Power Grid)

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Ravensburger Dutch / French / Spanish edition

Publisher: Ravensburger

Artist: Jo Hartwig

Year: 2005

Product Code: 26 355 4

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Expedition

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Third German edition with SdJ mark

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Year: 1997

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Expedition

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Queen Games Second Edition

Publisher: Queen Games

Artist: Jo Hartwig

Year: 1996

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Terra-X

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First edition

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4	General Does anyone know how I can find an English version of this game? I've looked everywhere...	2010-08-25	scottwild...	4
0	Rules Public Expeditions	2010-01-10	SGHughes	6
8	Reviews Expedition as a 2 player game	2009-05-21	sa266	1
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0	General So is everyone in agreement? (regarding loop/bow rules)	2006-06-12	Donkey Thong	9
2	General Are all "National Geographic Expedition" in English?	2006-03-26	junesen	4

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Expedition rules translation (queen edition)

This is my best attempt, using computer-assisted translation tools, to translate the Queen edition (German) Expedition rules to English. The intent is to identify rules which have changed between the various editions of Expedition. I have made a few minor additions to the rules where I thought the translation was unclear. I tried to mark these with parenthesis. Note it appears the default rules for this edition indicate that an expedition loop allows an arrow to be added anywhere to an expedition. (not just on the loop)

coprariedog

2009-10-17

Rules for National Geographic Expedition by permission.

This is a pdf file of the rules for National Geographic Expedition.

Jubii2

2009-02-24

Expedition Cards.doc

Flavour Text for all Locations

b0ardgamer

2003-12-22

Expedition Cards - Europe.doc

Flavor text for the Europe cards.

rtrowan

2003-06-02

Expedition One-pager.pdf

One-Page Player Aid

andyc32

2002-10-02

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Dutch rules	http://www.forummortsel.be/spelregels/Expedition.p...	2012-04-09
Dutch review on speldatabase.be (National Geographic edition)	http://speldatabase.be/spelinfo.php?id=3893&zoekcr...	2011-11-24
Dutch review on speldatabase.be	http://speldatabase.be/spelinfo.php?id=776&zoekcri...	2011-11-24
English review - Kulkmann's Gamebox	http://www.boardgame.de/reviews/expedit.htm	2011-09-20
German review - Spielonaut	http://www.spielonaut.de/site/kritik/start2.htm?/s...	2011-09-20
German review - bpk	http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/luding/re...	2011-09-20
German review - spiel-des-jahres.com	http://www.spiel-des-jahres.com/rezensionen/expedi...	2011-09-20
German review - Spielphase	http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/keirat/tx...	2011-09-20
German review - Reich der Spiele	http://www.reich-der-spiele.com/kritiken/Expeditio...	2011-08-04
German review - games we play	http://gamesweplay.de/expedition.html	2011-08-04