Players take on the role of Explorers, like dr. Livingston in undiscovered Africa. The playing counters are placed upside down in random locations upon the various places of the board. Each turn the player may elect to move his explorer to a revealed location anywhere on the board, or move twice, each turn moving 0, 1 or 2 adjacent revealed spaces. The explorer may then take an action, such as reveal an unrevealed tile, or move various revealed tiles to other locations. 

The tiles represent trade goods (of various sets), nomads, animals, gold/ diamonds, and monuments. By collecting sets of goods points can be scored (the more, the better). But also by (smart) moving nomads to free living spaces or animals to hordes.

This game represents the famous 1672 pirate-led jailbreak from the fortress of Cartagena. Each player has a group of 6 pirates and the objective is to have all 6 escape through the tortuous underground passage that connects the fortress to the port, where a sloop is waiting for them. By playing your cards smartly and making use of occupied spaces (by your opponents pirates) you can jump your pirates fast forward to freedom and victory.

For EuropeMasters new secret task cards were made, as the original task cards are not balanced for a 4 player game. With the new cards each color will score the same amount of points (3 points in total per color). Also for the additional rule applies that no 2 similar adventure tokens may be placed next to each other, if there exists a direct line between the 2 fields.

Players also have to try to collect 2 colors of tiles (counts as positive points) and avoid the other colors as these points will be substracted from the overall score.