Each Loki card has two different actions as

options for the players. When playing a

Loki card that player must choose which
of those actions they want to use. Once a
Loki card is used it is removed from the
game, meaning players can never use
trickery more than eight times in a game.
Players should be as tricky as the trickster
to make the best use of their cards.

Move your raven 1 space forward on the path, regardless of the land types.
Move the other raven 1 space backwards on the path.

Rotate a land card 180.

Remove a land card. Both flight paths will be reduced by one space.

There are four types of Loki cards.

Players should read the explanations to
these cards before the game to make the
best use of them. Any actions which move
or rotate land cards cannot be used on a
card which currently has a raven on it.
After a loop card has been played,
players can use more loop cards to add to
that first loop, or can rotate the loop
cards as though they are land cards.
The loop action and the slide action
will sometimes cause land cards to
overlap. Always place the card being
moved this turn on top of the other card.
If sliding a land card onto a loop card, the
additional section is now part of the loop,
and the section which was covered is
ignored. The card which is partially
covered can no longer be moved by any
card actions treat it as though there is a
raven on it.

Swap any two land cards without rotating them.

After a player has finished playing cards,

they draw 3 cards to end their turn.
These cards can be taken in any order
from either draw pile.
If a player now has more than 7 cards,
they must immediately choose cards to
discard without taking actions until they
have 7 cards left. As usual, flight cards
would be put in the discard pile, while
Loki cards would be removed from
thegame.

The game ends when a player moves

their raven into the final space on their
opponents side. That player is the
winner! However, if that player went
first, the other player has one more turn
to get to their raven to the finish point. If
they manage it, whichever player has the
most cards left in their hand wins. If its
still a tie, then the ravens must race again
to determine a winner!

Slide one land card by one space (as shown), so that one flight path changes and
the other gets shorter. The section which is outside the flight paths is ignored.
Odins Ravens
Game Design by Thorsten Gimmler
Cover and Card art by Johan Egerkrans
Osprey Publishing, part of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
PO Box 883, Oxford, OX1 9PL, UK
2015 Thorsten Gimmler & Osprey Publishing Ltd.
All Rights Reserved.

Draw two extra cards in whichever combination you prefer.

Draw an extra land card and put it alongside one of the flight paths as
shown. The extra card adds a loop to make the flight path longer. The ravens
now have to fly all the way around the loop, as shown on the dotted line.

The top space of the land card is now part of the loop.

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very morning, Odin, the Allfather of the Norse Gods,

sends his two ravens, Huginn and Muninn out into
Midgard to watch over the land. Each player will take a
raven and use their flight cards to move them across the different
landscapes of the world which we know as Earth.
After thousands of years of taking this trip every day, the
ravens have turned it into a race! They will head in opposite directions
around the world, and the first one who returns to the starting point
will be the winner. They can also ask for help from Loki, god of tricks and
mischief, to make their path easier or the other ravens path trickier! With
clever use of flight cards and Loki cards, a raven can move quickly over the
world and win the race back to Odins side.

2 Wooden Ravens

50 Flight Cards

16 Loki Cards

(25 for each player)

(8 for each player)

40 Land Cards

The first player to use the flight paths to

fly to the end of the world and back is
the winner.

On their turn, players can choose how

many cards from their hand they want to
play. Each type of card allows players to
take a different action. Players can take
as many or as few actions as they like, as
long as they have the right cards available.
The actions are:
Shuffle the land cards and place a line of
16 cards between the players. Each card
contains two spaces, and these spaces
form two routes down which the ravens
will fly. When laying out the cards, make
sure that no two spaces in a row are the
same. If they are, rotate the newest card
180 to change the space. If there are
still two land spaces of the same type,
place that card at the bottom of the deck
and replace it with a new land card.
Place the deck of remaining land cards
face down nearby.
Both players place their ravens at one
end of the land cards, each in front of
one route. When a raven reaches the last
land card, it switches to the other side of
it and flies back along the other route.
Each player takes the 25 flight cards
and 8 Loki cards of their colour, shuffles
them separately and places them face

down as two draw piles. Players then

draw 5 cards as their starting hand. Each
player can choose to draw cards from
either pile in whichever combination
they like, for example 3 flight cards
and 2 Loki cards.
Whichever player lost the last
race should go first.

FLIGHT using a flight card to

move a raven along the flight path.
TRICKERY using a Loki card to
take one of the actions on the card.

To move their raven, a player must play a

flight card that shows the same land type
as the next path space in front of their raven.
For example, if the next land space in front
of a raven is a forest, the player must play a
forest flight card to move into this space. If
there is a row of land spaces of the same
type in front of a raven, the player can use
the matching flight card to move the raven
over all of these spaces, placing the raven
at the end of the row. With some luck, and
clever use of the Loki cards, a player can
arrange to fly over three or more land spaces
of the same type at the same time.

The player plays a mountain flight card and can move

their raven 2 land spaces to the second mountain space.

If a player has no flight cards that match

the land space in front of their raven, they
can use any two flight cards of the same
type as though it was whichever flight
card they need. The players put their used
flight cards face up on the table as a discard
pile. If the draw pile of flight cards ever
runs out, shuffle up the discards to form a
new draw pile.

Here a player plays 2 forest flight cards to move to the

mountain land space.