At the start of the game 9 double sided terrain cards are placed in a row on the table - they determine the initial route. Each terrain card has two landscapes printed on the front, hence you obtain two independent columns of landscapes, one column is the route for one raven.

One player may hold up to 5 action cards on his hand. Action cards are either flight cards depicting a specific landscape or powerful Odin cards, which allow some extraordinary moves or actions. With flight cards the raven are able to move across the depicted landscapes of their routes.

Every turn the player has the following options: He can play up to 3 arbitrary cards from his hand immediately or place them onto his "secret" (face down) card pile. He can also play additional 3 cards from this secret pile, but he has to consider the order they have been placed before (top first). The secret card pile allows to play more than 3 action cards from hand per turn. Due to the storage principle it is somehow a delayed action of previous turns. Normally it is allowed to look at the cards on his own secret pile, but as a stricter rule this option could be omitted (my recommendation for advanced players).

The rare but mighty Odin cards allow various options for the game, they ease the way of the own raven or obstruct the opponent's passage. For instance they allow to exchange, move or even destroy terrain cards, the Stone of Odin can be placed as an obstacle to the passage and so on. At the end of the turn each player may choose to prolong the flight of both raven by placing one (or three with a Odin card) new terrain card(s) at the end of the already placed terrain cards. For example, when the own raven is blocked, but the other one not, this helps to gain some more time to catch up. Finally the player completes his hand cards up to 5 on the end of his turn.

Like to the flight of the raven, there is also a magic competition between the players. A player may decide to bid for the magic way of Odin by placing action cards on it. The current magic way card tells what action cards are allowed for bidding, because only 2 out of 6 possible action cards can be used. The player with the highest bid gains the magic way card and some extra points at the end of the journey. The games last for three rounds, winner is the raven with the most points.

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