Five Peaks Trefl - a game about mountain hiking!

Players: 2-5 | Age: 9+ | Time: 50-125 min.

It’s a warm September morning, the first day of your long-awaited holiday. You’ve reached the car park at the foot of the picturesque mountains. You take your backpacks out of the car, tighten your shoelaces and hit the easy trail leading upward. Over the next few days, you’ll be hiking across mountain trails, gathering ground cover and taking in the breathtaking view. Perhaps you’ll discover some forgotten places off the beaten track, which will lead you to the Five Peaks. After you’ve reached a mountain top, add a rock to a traditional rock cairn, put up a tent and enjoy the panoramic view of the mountainside.

Five Peaks is a game about mountain treks. For the gameplay, you’ll have your own sets of cards with which you’ll perform various actions. As you keep collecting more playing cards, you’ll discover more efficient strategies for moving around the board and gathering resources.

Discovering new locations, building rock cairns on top of the mountains, and collecting awe-inspiring panoramas are just a few of the many ways to earn victory points and leave the rest of the players in the dust. Who will manage to trek all Five Peaks and collect the most points?

Game patronage:

Stunning illustrations of mountain landscapes

Embark on a visual journey through breathtaking illustrations that capture the essence of a mountain trek. Feel the aura of exploring mountain trails in autumn and let yourself be captivated by the meticulously crafted cards.

Many ways to win

Uncover forgotten trails, stack rock cairns atop mountains and complete panoramas to earn victory points. During the game, you may also acquire an extra point-scoring system that will influence your next moves. Relying solely on one path is unlikely to guarantee your victory. Strike a balance between different trails to achieve the highest score!

Dynamic gameplay and simple rules

During your turn, simply play one of your cards and perform the corresponding action. Using your cards, you can build rock cairns, gather and transform resources, and collect more playing cards. However, the key to victory lies in the strategic selection and sequencing of the cards played.

Watch your opponents’ moves attentively and skilfully seize every opportunity that arises!

5 starter kits for the players: a game piece, 5 rocks, a backpack, 5 starter cards

14 region tiles out of which you’ll create a map of your treks

15 peak tiles representing the surrounding hills, viewpoints, and summits

15 tourist badges which you’ll earn for discovering trails leading to undiscovered mountain tops

65 endorphin tokens with which you’ll buy new trek cards

96 wooden resources which you’ll collect during treks

30 panorama cards with which you’ll create beautiful mountainsides

34 trek cards which you can add to your playing cards to be able to perform more effective actions

18 bonfire cards which can function as upgrades for the other cards or introduce an alternative way to earn points

a notepad and a pencil for writing down your trek scores

Gameplay

During your turn, simply play one of the cards in your hand and perform the corresponding action!

Some cards grant you the ability to move one or more fields forward. You can walk, ride a bike or paraglide! After landing on any field, collect the resources depicted on it.

There are also cards that allow you to collect new resources or transform the ones you already have into other items. This will allow you to reach your goals faster!

To move around the board more effectively, you might need new cards. You can buy them with endorphins or resources while playing specific cards.

Discover new trails and reach mountain tops!

The resources collected on the way will allow you to discover forgotten trails leading to the surrounding peaks. Find them to earn tourist badges and get points at the end of the game.

Once you’ve managed to climb a mountain top, leave a rock there. It’ll earn you attractive prizes and points!

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Reviews

I like what I always appreciate in intermediate games, which is a good balance between the difficulty of the rules and the spectrum of possibilities we get, including choosing from several scoring sources. Five Summits (again similar to Concordia) strikes this balance perfectly. The rules are really simple, short and easy to assimilate, especially once you've played something in modern board games. At the same time, the choices you make are a whole lot, but they are introduced gradually and don't overwhelm you as soon as you get on the board.

The great thing is that we don't have a fixed board here. It's up to us to expand it - we add terrain tiles and create our, unique trek. In addition to resources, the main 'currency' of the game is endorphins, i.e. the happiness of the hikers. We on the trails, despite being tired, also always have smiles on our faces, so this is a perfect interpretation. We have the unmistakable impression that the author of the game, and its illustrator, Adam Strzelecki, has been through more than one mountain adventure in his life, because he expressed the realities on the board perfectly.