Lost Cities is one of Reiner Knizia's award-winning board games that recently made its way over to iOS, and I think it's great. The game is simple and easy to play, but it shows off quite a bit of complexity among just a few elements. The biggest complaint I have is that the tutorial can be confusing, and there's no iPad version yet, unfortunately. But Lost Cities is an excellent strategy title good for quite a few matches of play.
The core game here is a card game. You deal cards of various colors and numbers out of a stack, and then place those cards in certain colored lanes or in a discard pile. Playing cards in lanes gets you points. Each lane starts at negative twenty points, so the player needs to try and put as many ca
