Invaluable 2025

In the game of Invaluable, players are directors of competing museums. They buy and sell artifact cards, to amass high scoring collections, or to just get rich. Either approach can win you the game!

The order in which players offer artifact cards determines the value of those cards, so players must carefully time their actions. Running out of money at the wrong time can ruin your plans! Of course, you should try to make sure that exact thing happens to your opponents!

On their turn, a player puts a card from their hand up for auction. If another player wins the auction, the original player is paid the winning bid. But if the original player wins the auction, the money is removed from the game. Cards that are won at auction are placed in the winning player’s museum tableau following very simple rules.

Once every card has been sold, the game is over. Artifacts in museums are worth points depending on how they are positioned relative to other artifacts. Subsequently, the same artifact can be worth different amounts to different players. Coins are also worth points, opening up another possible route to victory for shrewd artifact sellers.

—description from the designer