Incan Gold FAQ
44 questions players ask · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Full rulebook
General
Components and preparation
Choosing to stay or leave
Treasure and leaving the temple
- When is a revealed treasure split among the explorers?
- When several explorers leave together, is the leftover treasure divided as one pool or card by card?
- What happens to treasure that does not divide evenly, or to a card worth fewer gems than there are leavers?
- Can you make change with gems when the treasure does not split evenly?
- Do gems left on earlier cards stay on the path until someone leaves?
- If only one explorer leaves, do they collect all the leftover treasure on every card?
- Can other players see the gems a player has banked in their tent?
Artifacts and scoring
- If two or more explorers leave together while an artifact is on the path, does either of them get it?
- If only one explorer leaves, do they take every artifact on the path, including ones revealed after an earlier lone leaver?
- If an artifact is not revealed in its round, does it stay in the deck for later rounds?
- What happens to artifacts still on the path when a round ends?
- How many points is each artifact worth, and when is its value set?
- What breaks a tie when players have the same total treasure value?
Hazards, ending a round and the next round
- Does a round end when the first two cards turned over are the same hazard?
- Do two different hazards end a round, or only two matching hazards in the same round?
- Do hazard cards come back in later rounds after they came up earlier, and can two copies of one hazard be removed?
- What happens to the cards and the removed hazard when a second hazard ends the round?
- Can players look at hazard cards that were removed from the game?
- What happens to gems still on the cave cards when a second hazard ends the round?
- Are the cave cards reshuffled into the deck for the next round?
- Does the start player have any role beyond turn order?
Diamant: Caution and BetrayalExpansion
- Can the Treason cards from Caution and Betrayal be used with Incan Gold?
- Can each player use a Treason (Betrayal) card only once in the game?
- Is the Treason module the same as the earlier Betrayal micro-expansion?
- Does a Betrayal card take relics as well as rubies from the victim?
- If several players play Betrayal cards on the same victim, what happens?
- Do Caution event cards override the base rules for their round?
- How does the Scrambling Exit event change how treasure is split when several players leave?
- Is the Betrayal module compatible with the 2024 Iello edition of Diamant?
- How do you share the 5 rubies from a Caution tile?
- Does the Caution tile that ends the expedition after four danger types change the two-match rule?
- Are Caution tiles removed or reshuffled after they are used?
- How does the Betrayal action card work?
- Can a Betrayal player see where others point before choosing a target?