- Place the Clank board off to the side of the play area and place the dragon marker on the space of the rage track for the number of players.
- Separate the 28 tiles by their backs, forming 2 piles.
- Shuffle the 22 depths tiles and place them face down next to the Clank board.
- Shuffle the remaining 6 tiles and return 2 to the box without looking at them. Place the remaining 4 tiles on top of the depths stack.
- Create a supply of gold and lockpicks (neither of these resources are considered to be limited).
- Create a supply of white cubes.
- Put the 24 black cubes in the dragon bag.
- Stack the artifact tiles in order of value (5 on top, 20 on the bottom).
- Shuffle each of the major and minor secrets and the prisoners and create face down stacks.
- Place the market board in the bank and put the following on it:
- 2 backpacks
- 2 blood amulets
- 3 burglar's kits
- 3 crowns (in order, with the 10 on the top and the 8 on the bottom)
- Place the starting tile in the center of your play area, with either side face up.
- Place the 3 monkey idols on the monkey shrine.
- Stack the mastery tokens near the crypt (1 per player).
- Prepare the cards to the side of the play area.
- 1 goblin card
- A stack of mercenary cards
- A stack of explore cards
- A stack of secret tome cards
- Shuffle the dungeon deck and deal 6 cards face up.
- Replace any cards with a dragon attack symbol (shuffle them back into the deck when you have 6 face up cards).
- If any cards have an "Arrive" effect, resolve those before the 1st player takes their turn.
- Place the dungeon deck next to the dungeon row (6 face up cards).
- Each player chooses a color and:
- Takes 30 clank cubes
- Takes their player pawn and places it on the crypt starting tile.
- Takes 3 lockpicks
- A 10 card deck with:
- 6 burgles
- 2 stumbles
- 1 sidestep
- 1 scramble
- Shuffles their deck and draws 5 cards into their starting hand
- Choose a start player and:
- The 1st player places 3 clank cubes in the clank area.
- The 2nd player places 2 clank cubes in the clank area.
- The 3rd player places 1 clank cubes in the clank area.
- The 4th player places 0 clank cubes in the clank area.
The game is played in a series of turns until all players have either escaped the dungeon or have been knocked out.
- On your turn, you must play all of your cards, but they can be played
in any order.
- Cards are played to a "play area" in front of you.
- You may take a variety of actions during your turn and each action
may be taken as many times as you like (and can afford).
- Actions may be taken after playing all cards, or during card plays.
Cards Generate the Following
Icon Description 
Used as currency to acquire cards / use device actions. 
Used for the fight a monster action and may be used as part of movement actions through monsters. 
Used for the movement action. 
Used for the movement action. Clank Whenever you make clank, add that many cubes to the clank area. If your supply is empty, skip this. Negative clank allows you to remove cubes from the clank area. Card Draws These cards are drawn from your personal deck. If your deck is every empty, shuffle your discard (but not the cards in your play area) to make a new deck. - Some cards have effects that are dependent on other cards, tokens, etc.
- Once you have played all your cards, you can end your turn.
- On your turn, you must play all of your cards, but they can be played
in any order.
- Action: Acquire a Card
- Spend skill (blue diamonds) to acquire cards. The cost is shown in the lower right corner of the card.
- When buying from the dungeon row, do not immediately replace the card. These will be replaced at the end of your turn.
- Acquired cards are put into your discard pile.
- Action: Use a Device
- You may also purchase devices (purple banner) from the dungeon row.
- These are immediate effects that you activate when purchased.
- After using the card, it is placed into the dungeon discard, not into your discard. Like other cards, do not immediately replace these as they will be replaced at the end of your turn.
- Action: Fight a Monster
- The swords required to defeat a monster are shown in the lower right of the card.
- Gain the reward shown on the card when the monster is defeated, then put the card in the discard pile. Like other cards, do not immediately replace these as they will be replaced at the end of your turn.
- You may fight the goblin any number of times (spending 2 swords each time), but do not discard it.
- Action: Movement
- Boots are used for movement between rooms. All tunnels require at least 1 boot to move through.
- When you move to the edge of a tile without an adjacent tile, discover a new tile (see below).
- A tunnel with footprint icons requires 2 boots to travel through.
- A tunnel with a monster icon deals 1 damage to you per monster
icon when you move through it. You may spend a sword (per
monster) icon to avoid this damage.
- You are not required to use your swords when moving through monster icons.
- You may spend a lockpick to move through tunnels with a lock icon.
- Place the lockpick token over the lock icon to show that it is permanently unlocked.
- If more than 1 lock icon exists on a tunnel, a lockpick per lock icon must be spent to move through the tunnel.
- You can only move in the direction shown by the arrow for 1-way tunnels.
Discovering a New Tile
- New tiles are only added to empty spaces (never stacked).
- A tile must share an entire edge with an adjacent tile.
- Placing a new tile will complete the tunnel you are moving through,
which may add icons that you have to deal with to continue
movement.
- If you cannot afford to continue moving through the tunnel (not enough boots/lockpicks/etc.), you must rotate the tile so that you can move onto the new tile.
- The 1st 4 tiles you discover are purple, then the blue tiles after that are considered to be the depths. See game end for more information on the depths.
- See tile features for information about the symbols on the tiles.
- Action: Buy from the Market
- When you are in a market room, you can buy tokens from the market.
- All items cost 7 gold.
- You may buy more than 1 item in a turn.
- You may buy more than 1 of the same item.
- See tokens for descriptions.
- Action: Take an Artifact
- This is a free action that you can take at any point during your turn.
- You cannot take an artifact if you already have one (unless you have a backpack).
- When you take an artifact, move the dragon marker up 1 space on the rage track.
- Action: Pick a Chest, Library, or Prison
- Spend a lockpick to open one of the following items.
- Cover the feature on the tile (with the lockpick) to show it has been used and cannot be picked again.
Symbol Description 
Immediately take a major secret from the bank and reveal it. You cannot pick a chest if there are no more major secrets to claim. See tokens for descriptions. 
Immediately take a secret tome and add it to your discard. You cannot pick a library if there are no secret tomes left. 
Immediately free 2 prisoners by taking 2 prisoner tokens from the bank and adding them face up to your personal supply. These are kept for scoring at the end of the game. You cannot pick a prison if there are no prisoners remaining. See tokens for descriptions.
- End of Turn
Do the following to end your turn.
- Put all cards from your play area into your discard.
- Draw 5 new cards from your deck.
- Refill the dungeon row to 6 cards.
- If there dungeon deck does not have enough cards to refill it, the game ends immediately and all remaining players are knocked out.
- If any of the new cards has a dragon attack symbol, the dragon
attacks (only once, no matter how many cards with the symbol
were revealed).
- Put all cubes in the clank area into the dragon bag.
- Shake the bag and draw a number of cubes equal to the current
number shown next to the dragon marker on the rage track.
- Cubes are placed on players' health tracks, starting with the leftmost space.
- If a white cube is drawn, every player takes 1 damage (place a cube on their health track from their supply).
- Any white cubes drawn are returned to the bag.
- If the bag is empty after an attack, the game ends immediately and all remaining players are knocked out.
Health Meter
- If you take damage from a dragon attack, use the cubes that came from the dragon bag.
- If you heal, return a cube from your health meter to your supply.
- If you move between rooms with a monster symbol(s), you lose 1 health for each monster that you do not kill with a sword.
- If your health meter is completely filled, you are knocked out. See end game rules for more info.
The game ends when all players have either escaped or have been knocked out.
- You escape when you return to the crypt (where you started). Finish your turn and gain 1 of the 20 point mastery tokens when you do this.
- You are knocked out when your health meter is filled.
- Lay your pawn on its side to show that it is knocked out.
- If you don't have an artifact or you are knocked out in the depths, you will score 0 points.
- When a player has escaped or been knocked out:
- They stop taking regular turns and take no game actions.
- They no longer add clank to the clank area.
- Cards that affect all players do not affect them.
- They take no damage from cubes drawn from the dragon bag.
- They neither draw or play cards.
- Each time it is their turn, they instead perform a dragon attack, but they ignore the current rage track and draw 4 cubes (6 in a 2 player game).
- When all players have escaped or been knocked out, proceed to scoring (below).
Scoring
Score the following:
- The value of any artifact(s) acquired.
- 1 point per gold.
- Points from other tokens (monkey idols, mastery tokens, etc.)
- Points on cards in your deck/hand/discard (green symbol in the upper right of the card).
The player with the most points wins. If there is a tie, the tied player with the most valuable artifact wins.
Icon Description 
When you place a tile with this symbol, take the top artifact from the pile and place it in this space. If the artifact stack is empty, do not place an artifact. 
Instead of placing the top artifact, place the 2nd or 3rd artifact in the stack (1 or 2 "+" symbols). If the artifact stack is empty, do not place an artifact. 
This is the room you start in and where you try and return to (with an artifact) to escape the dungeon. 
You cannot spend any more boots for movement once you enter a crystal cave. You may teleport out, but you still can't spend any more boots. 
When you add a haunted tile, take 1 white cube from the supply and add it to the clank area. 
You may take the shown pick action on this tile. Market You may buy items from the market when on this tile. 
When you enter this tile, you do not end your movement, instead exit from any other portal on any tile in the dungeon. A movement action from 1 room through both portals and into another room only requires 1 boot (by default). Cards that let you teleport can be used to move through portals. After using the portal, you may continue to move normally. 
Take 1 minor secret from the bank and reveal it. See tokens for descriptions. You don't have to stop in this room to take this reward. 
Take 1 monkey idol from the room. You don't have to stop in this room to take this reward. 
Take the amount of gold shown from the supply. You don't have to stop in this room to take this reward. 
Heal 1 damage. You don't have to stop in this room to take this reward. 
When on this tile, you may mark it with 1 of your cubes as a special action. If you do, take 1 gold for every wayshrine you've marked during the game. You can only mark a wayshrine once. You cannot mark a wayshrine if you are out of cubes.
- Acquire: Gain these benefits once when purchasing the card.
- Arrive: Carry this out immediately when the card is added to
the dungeon row.
- This happens before any dragon attack.
- If any cards with an arrive effect are in the dungeon row at the start of the game, these should be applied before the 1st player takes their turn.
- Danger: When pulling cubes from the dragon bag for a dragon attack, pull 1 additional cube for each of these cards in the dungeon row.
- Discard: You can only discard cards in your hand that you
haven't played yet.
- Discarded cards do not have their effects activated. e.g. a stumble discarded this way will not produce clank.
- Each Player: Each player does a thing. The order shouldn't
matter, but if it does, begin with the player taking their turn
and proceed clockwise.
- Ignore players that have escaped or have been knocked out.
- Teleport: This takes you directly from 1 room to another.
- No boots are required.
- Ignore any costs in the tunnel.
- You can teleport against an arrow.
- You can also teleport to discover a new tile.
- Trash: When a card is trashed, it is permanently removed from the game.
Prisoners
Token Description 
Immediately advance the dragon marker 1 space on the rage track. Also worth 3 points at the end of the game. 
Immediately gain 2 swords to use on this turn. Also worth 2 points at the end of the game. 
Immediately heal 1 damage. Also worth 2 points at the end of the game. 
You may use this token one time while buying an item to pay 5 less gold. It is not a prisoner for any purpose. Keep this until you use it, then remove it from the game. 
This counts as a monkey idol for all purposes, but is only work 3 points. 
Immediately take a ghost cube from the supply and place it in the clank area. Also worth 3 points at the end of the game. 
Worth 5 points at game end if you have a mastery token. 
Worth 1 point per wayshrine you have marked at the end of the game. 
Worth 2 points at the end of the game. 
Worth 5 points at game end if you have at least 1 monkey idol. 
Worth 5 points at game end if you have a crown. 
Worth 5 points at game end if you have at least 2 secret tomes. 
Worth 1 point for every prisoner you have freed at game end. Major Secrets
Token Description 
Keep this token. For the rest of the game, you may move against the arrow for 1-way tunnels. Also worth 5 points at game end. 
Keep this token. It is worth 7 points at the end of the game. 
Immediately gain 5 skill points and return this to the box. 
Immediately gain 5 gold and return this to the box. 
Keep this token. Use on any turn to heal 2 damage and return the token to the box. Market Items
Token Description 
Allows you to carry an additional artifact. Also worth 5 points at the end of the game. 
You must have at least 5 damage to buy this. When you buy it, immediately heal 2 damage. Also worth 7 points at the end of the game. 
When you buy this, immediately take 2 lockpicks from the supply. Also worth 2 points at the end of the game. 
Worth the number of points shown. Minor Secrets
Token Description 
Keep this token. Advance the dragon token 1 space on the rage track. It is also worth 3 points at the end of the game. 
Return this to the box and take 1 lockpick from the supply. 
At the end of this turn, trash a card from your discard pile or play area. Return the card and this token to the box. 
Keep this token. Use this token on 1 of your turns to heal 1 damage, then return the token to the box. 
Keep this token. Use this token on 1 of your turns to gain 1 boot, then return the token to the box. 
Keep this token. Use this token on 1 of your turns to gain 2 swords, then return the token to the box. 
Keep this token until you enter a wayshrine, then return this token to the box and take a major secret from the supply. 
Return this token to the box and take 2 gold. Misc.
Token Description 
When you enter a monkey shrine room, take 1 monkey idol. It is worth 5 points at the end of the game. A monkey idol is not an artifact.