In the game, players take on the role of explorers traveling through the clouds in an airship, encountering a variety of challenges and obstacles along the way. It's quite light, although I imagine if you were the serious type there is a lot of maths and memorisation in there too. The treasures become more powerful the further the ship is along the path, so passengers try to stay on as long as possible. Celestia truly is a game that can be played by anyone, it's simple and colourful enough that it has a wide ranging appeal but its effective use of that push-your-luck element means that it can easily be enjoyed by even the heaviest of gamer.

If the captain cannot overcome the events on the dice, he plays no cards at all and the aircraft crashes. The look of the assembled board oozes joy and the potential for a loving and warm game between friends or family.The casino recently moved its poker room and hired a new manager who decided to change the direction of the entire casino and began to introduce new table games. Everybody else has to decide whether they think the current captain has the required cards to push-on and overcome these obsticles, or abandon ship and take a treasure card from the current island. After the crash, Ambroise becomes the new captain because he sits immediately to the left of Amelia, the previous captain, and is back on-board because a whole new journey begins.

The “magic spyglass” allows the ship to pass the challenge anyway after the captain announces he cannot. The art style is whimsical, reminiscent of a favourite children’s book, with each of the available crew members bearing wide, happy grins, so eager are they to embark on their journey to fame and fortune.Celestia’s gameplay is fast paced and full of surprises, while being easily taught within a single round of play. And you may want it to fail if you have jumped off too early and your opponents are headed to islands filled with high value treasures. Each player is dealt five ‘equipment’ cards that are used to navigate various challenges, as well as special cards that can be used to overcome tricky obstacles, or simply kick a pesky rival off the boat.