Reiner Knizia is on a hot streak, having just won the 2026 Kennerspiel des Jahres with Rebirth, and he is not slowing down. His next release, Trail to the Temple, is a quick card game for 1-4 players about racing explorers through a shifting jungle to grab treasure at exactly the right moment.
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See how it worksPublished by MindWare, Trail to the Temple has you playing cards to move your explorers along a meandering jungle path that is laid out differently every game, with the values on offer changing as you go. The tension is all in the timing. Grab an artefact too early and you leave points on the table; too late and a rival snatches it first. It plays in around 20 minutes for ages 8 and up, priced at 29.99 dollars, the kind of light, sharp filler Knizia is famous for. This is a designer with hundreds of published games to his name and landmark titles including Ra, Tigris & Euphrates, the million-selling Lord of the Rings co-op and the Spiel des Jahres-winning Keltis.
A tight, family-friendly Knizia card game is exactly the sort of thing that ends up in permanent rotation once it hits the table. Trail to the Temple is out in 2026.
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