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Explore Action

The Main Action used by either side to play a card and resolve its movement and/or effect.

Also indexed as：Explore · 探索 · 出牌移动

Reference facts

Type
Action
Category
Rules & objectives
Rules basis
MinaLima public rulebook; printed-page references below.

Effect & use

Play one card from your hand. Resolve its movement before or after its effect as allowed by the card. Put played cards on your Discard Pile at turn end.

Where to find it / how to resolve it

Choose Explore as your one Main Action, or take an additional Explore through a valid previous-turn Hogwarts Token or a card that grants another play.

Restrictions & timing

  • If a card permits playing a second card, fully resolve the first card before the second.
  • A stunned pawn cannot move; Dark Arts card effects also require the corresponding path colour to be unlocked.
Use a Hogwarts Token →Multi-Move →Reactive Effect →Dark Arts Path →
House ends on Dark Arts: both stun, then recover in order →A Hogwarts Token gives a later, matching Explore action →Three Progress Tokens are only part of a Dark Arts win →A Secret Passage needs permission and costs one movement point →Draw before moving: the played card is not in Discard yet →End outside first, then resolve conditional extra movement →React from hand: effect now, no movement, then discard →
Beginner Guide: Your First Game →Start play and keep cards separate

The House player to Dark Arts' left starts; continue clockwise. Each House turn chooses one main action: Explore, Learn or Replenish. Dark Arts chooses Explore or Replenish and has no Learn action.

Cards, Spells & Tokens →Check when the effect applies

Instant, conditional and whole-turn effects have different timing. An ordinary Explore card lets you choose movement before or after its available effect, but a condition still has to be met. Effects are optional unless the card r…

Compare Your Next Action →Move now, or acquire for a later draw?

The same one-card reduction buys different things: movement now or a card waiting on top of your deck.

Compare Your Next Action →Dark Arts: deploy a reserve pawn, or move an on-board pawn?

The same four-point no-effect card pays 1 point to enter from the pool, leaving at most 3 for travel. An already on-board pawn can use all 4 for travel.

Compare Your Next Action →Dark Arts: one pawn up to 6, or two pawns up to 3 each?

Use the same printed Gathering Dark Forces 3 + 3 face in both choices. Combining its two values and assigning one to each pawn are legal; reallocating it as 2 + 4 is not.

Sources & revision history

Page numbers refer to printed rulebook pages. Each link opens the PDF spread containing that page.

Rules source review: · Initial entry checked against the publisher’s public rulebook.

Changes affecting this page

  1. · 1.6.0
    Consistent terms, section search and two-side teaching

    Unified 35 sourced English–Chinese terms and registered all three open rule questions. Search and guide backlinks now lead to matching sections in the current language. Added card-flow diagrams, conditional Dark Arts lessons and exact movement allowances alongside the five existing House comparisons. Unknown rules, routes, card effects and future draws remain unfilled.

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  2. · 1.3.0
    Content quality work in this revision

    Added a 24-category component catalogue, nine sourced card examples and a rechecked Alohomora entry; the catalogue remains an identified sample rather than a complete Acquire Deck. Added a complete setup and first-round walkthrough with a player-count checklist, cross-links across all eight guides, reference information boxes, a clarification register, page-specific history and local correction drafts. This records reviewed preview content, without announcing the custom-domain launch.

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  3. · 1.2.0
    Diagrams, tabletop reference and navigation

    Added original component, movement and encounter schematics, a printable quick reference, site-wide search, spelling suggestions and shareable filters. Reference entries and examples gained section navigation. Diagrams explain rules without claiming exact board coordinates.

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  4. · 1.1.0
    First source-checked reference library

    Published 40 bilingual entries and eight hypothetical rule examples alongside eight guides. Entries and examples include printed-page sources, related terms and review dates. Full-text search indexes the visible guide, entry and example text.

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